Serving Port Credit · about 27 km from the shop
Auto body shop serving Port Credit
Port Credit lives at the mouth of the Credit River — a village main street on Lakeshore Rd, a harbour full of masts, and a GO station that empties half the neighbourhood toward Union every weekday morning. When one of its cars needs bodywork, Collision Auto Center is about 25 to 38 minutes north, off Keele just south of Sheppard.
- Drivable or not
- At fault or not
- Free written estimates
- Drive time
- about 25–38 min
- The route
- Lakeshore or Hurontario to the QEW, the 427 north to the 401 at Keele
Why Port Credit drivers make the trip
Worth the drive, once — then it’s your shop
Port Credit damage has a flavour of its own: hitch and trailer scars from the marina, parallel-parking scrapes along the Lakeshore strip, door dings from the GO lot, and the QEW rear-ends that come with commuting up Hurontario. Twenty-seven kilometres is a real distance, so the file starts by phone — photos first, a written figure back, parts ordered before you ever make the trip. Ontario law leaves the choice of shop with you no matter what list your insurance company reads out. The owner runs the claim himself, and after drop-off the Lakeshore West GO from Union puts you back at Port Credit station without a second driver.
Around Port Credit: Port Credit lighthouse · Lakeshore Rd · Credit River marina · Brightwater
Your insurance company can’t choose your shop — in Ontario that choice is always yours. Here’s how that works.
A harbour town is hard on sheet metal
Most neighbourhoods do not launch boats. Port Credit does, from April to October, and the bodywork follows: tailgates dented by hitch balls in tight driveways, rear quarters creased by trailers that swung wide at the marina gates, rocker panels dragged on ramp approaches. Add the village’s parking arithmetic — parallel spots along Lakeshore, narrow lots on the old streets like Peter and John south of the strip, and a GO lot that fills before 7:30 AM — and the neighbourhood generates a steady file of low-speed damage that never involved another moving car.
The lake itself does slower work. Cars that sit outdoors near the water — at the marina, on Front St, in the open rows at the GO station — live in damp, salt-touched air on top of the road salt every Ontario car eats from December to March. Stone chips that would stay cosmetic in a dry garage start lifting at the edges by the second spring. When a panel from Port Credit comes in for repair, the surrounding paint is checked honestly, because blending fresh colour into weathered lacquer is the part of the job that decides whether the repair stays invisible.
Lakeshore, Hurontario, and the QEW ramps
The village’s collisions cluster on three roads. Lakeshore Rd through the strip is stop-and-go past patios and crosswalks, and it produces the classic follow-too-close tap — worse on festival weekends, when Buskerfest or the Southside Shuffle fills Memorial Park and every side street from Stavebank to Elizabeth parks bumper to bumper. Hurontario, still finding its rhythm after years of LRT construction, funnels the whole commute to one QEW interchange where merging traffic meets a stopped queue. And the QEW itself supplies the hard hits, the ones that arrive here on a flatbed rather than under their own power.
Whatever the road, the sequence from Port Credit is the same. Photograph the damage where the car sits and text the pictures to (647) 594-3401. A written figure comes back quickly, which lets you weigh a claim against your deductible with a real number in hand. If it becomes a claim, the owner opens it, meets the adjuster’s estimate with teardown photos, and files the supplement when hidden damage surfaces — you are never the messenger between a shop and an insurance company.
One drive up, a train ride home
We plan Port Credit repairs around a single trip. Parts and paint are staged before your booking, so the car goes into a bay instead of a holding row. The drive is simpler than the distance suggests: Hurontario or Mississauga Rd up to the QEW, the 427 north, the 401 east to Keele, and we are off Keele just south of Sheppard — about 25 to 38 minutes outside rush hour. If the car is not safe to drive, Ontario’s towing rules put the destination in your hands, so the flatbed comes straight here instead of to a storage yard charging by the day.
Getting home is the easy half. Line 1 runs from Sheppard West down to Union, and the Lakeshore West GO returns you to Port Credit station in about twenty minutes — often faster than driving the QEW back at 5 PM. Hours are Monday to Saturday, 8 AM to 7 PM, Sundays by appointment. If a rental is part of your coverage, we time its pickup to your drop-off. The owner answers the phone himself.
- Photo estimate before the car leaves Port Credit
- Parts staged ahead of your booking so shop time starts immediately
- GO from Union back to Port Credit station after drop-off
- Tow directed to our door when the car cannot make the QEW
Port Credit questions
Questions from Port Credit drivers
Straight answers before you commit to anything — and a human on the phone when you want one.
Why send a car from Port Credit all the way to North York?
Because only the drop-off requires the trip. The estimate happens by photo, the claim runs by phone from our office, and parts are ordered before you come up — so the 27 km costs you one drive and a GO ride home from Union. In exchange you get one owner-estimator, the owner, carrying the file from teardown to final inspection.
A trailer at the marina caught my fender. Should this even be a claim?
Get the number first. Single-panel trailer damage often prices close to a deductible, and a claim that saves you $200 is rarely worth opening. Text photos and we send a written figure the same day; if the damage runs deeper than it looks — a buckled inner structure behind the fender — we will tell you, and the claim decision gets made once, with real information.
My car can’t be driven after a QEW collision. How does it get to you?
Tell the tow operator our shop is the destination — under Ontario’s towing rules that choice is yours, and an itemized invoice is required. If the car was already dropped at a collision reporting centre or a storage yard, call us and we coordinate the second tow before storage fees stack up. The claim covers reasonable towing to the shop of your choice.
In Port Credit
What we repair for Port Credit drivers
Reviews
What customers say
The line we hear most: “I couldn’t tell where the damage had been.”
Honestly, I thought my car would never look the same again — but they completely proved me wrong. I couldn’t even tell where the damage had been repaired or repainted. The paint matched perfectly, and the bodywork was flawless.
My car was in an accident and the entire rear was damaged. They replaced the rear bumper and tailgate, and the paint job was perfect — matched flawlessly. The quality of work exceeded my expectations.
Very quality service and fair rates. The staff was professional, honest, and kept me updated throughout the whole process. My car looks brand new again.
Absolutely the best auto body shop I’ve ever used. The paint matched perfectly and the car looked brand new again. They handled everything smoothly and finished on time.
Get started
Two questions.
One written estimate.
First the car, then a number to reach you. A written estimate comes back within 1 hour.
Been in an accident?
We’ll take it
from here.
Mon–Sat · 8 AM–7 PM · Sundays by appointment · Keele St & Sheppard Ave W, North York