Serving Uxbridge · about 55 km from the shop
Auto body shop serving Uxbridge
Uxbridge sits in a valley on the Oak Ridges Moraine, ringed by the trail network that earned it the trail-capital title — about 55 km from Collision Auto Center, or roughly 45–60 minutes by Highway 47 and the 404.
- Drivable or not
- At fault or not
- Free written estimates
- Drive time
- about 45–60 min
- The route
- Highway 404 to Bloomington Rd, then east through Goodwood on Highway 47
Why Uxbridge drivers make the trip
Worth the drive, once — then it’s your shop
Nobody in Uxbridge stumbles across a body shop at Keele and Sheppard on the way to the hardware store, and we don’t pretend otherwise. The town’s files reach us through insurance claims, flatbeds we coordinate, and customers who were sent by someone we fixed a car for. What makes the arrangement work is that almost nothing requires you to be here. Photos produce the written estimate before you commit to the drive down Highway 47. A car sitting crumpled in a ditch off the Sixth Concession gets loaded onto a flatbed pointed at our door, because Ontario’s towing rules leave the destination to the owner. The owner — one owner-estimator — carries the file with your insurance company from the first call to the day you collect the keys.
Around Uxbridge: Downtown Brock St · Elgin Park · trail capital country roads · Foster Memorial
Your insurance company can’t choose your shop — in Ontario that choice is always yours. Here’s how that works.
A moraine town that drives like one
Uxbridge does not drive like a suburb. The town sits at the bottom of real hills — the climbs out on Toronto Street and up toward Quaker Village are steep enough to matter on ice — and everything beyond the town limits runs on two-lane roads and gravel concessions. The commute west funnels through Goodwood on Highway 47 toward Stouffville and the 404, a road that mixes fast through-traffic with left-turning locals and, at dawn and dusk, deer moving between the moraine forests. The other exit is south: Lake Ridge Road or Brock Road down toward the 407 and the lakeshore, long open stretches where winter wind pushes drifting snow across the pavement faster than the plows can answer it.
That geography writes our Uxbridge intake list. Ditch slides on the concessions after freezing rain. Deer strikes on the 47 and out past Leaskdale and Zephyr. Rear-end taps where Brock Street traffic stacks up through the downtown lights, and gravel-truck stone chips for anyone who follows the aggregate routes that criss-cross the moraine. It is a different damage profile from anything in Toronto proper, and it is the reason an estimate for an Uxbridge car starts with different questions.
Rural kilometres are hard kilometres
A lot of Uxbridge vehicles work for a living — pickups pulling horse floats and landscape trailers, SUVs that run a gravel driveway twice a day, hatchbacks parked at the trailheads while their owners ride the moraine. Gravel sandblasts rocker panels and lower doors, brine on the regional roads finds every chip that reaches bare steel, and a long private laneway adds its own scrapes at the culvert lip. When a collision claim lands on a vehicle carrying that kind of honest wear, we separate new damage from old in the estimate so the claim stays clean — and we will quote the wear panels straight while the car is already in the booth, with no obligation attached.
The town has also learned the hard way what weather can do. The tornado that tore down Brock Street in May 2022 is still part of local memory, and it left Uxbridge drivers quicker than most to photograph storm damage and call their insurance company the same day. That instinct is correct, and we are built to receive it: storm files open from photos, and the schedule is triaged honestly so cars with broken glass or exposed metal jump the queue.
One trip down the 47 — or none at all
The routine for a town 55 km out is deliberate. Text photos of the damage and a written number comes back before you decide anything. If the car drives, you bring it down once — Monday to Saturday, 8 AM to 7 PM, Sundays by appointment — and the rental booked through your coverage is timed to meet you in our lot. If it does not drive, the flatbed goes to your laneway, the Elgin Park lot, or the shoulder where the car came to rest, and your first sight of the shop is pickup day. The owner answers (647) 594-3401 directly.
- Written estimate from photos before any drive to North York
- Flatbed coordinated from anywhere in Uxbridge Township — the destination is your call under Ontario’s towing rules
- Rental car through your own coverage, booked for drop-off day
- One owner-estimator on the file from first photo to final inspection
Uxbridge questions
Questions from Uxbridge drivers
Straight answers before you commit to anything — and a human on the phone when you want one.
Does it make sense to repair my car in North York when I live in Uxbridge?
For claim work, usually yes. The estimate happens from photos, the tow — if one is needed — comes to us, and the rental is arranged for the day you drop off, so the distance amounts to one drive down Highway 47 in each direction. What you get for it is a single owner-estimator handling the whole file instead of a service counter, which is why Uxbridge referrals keep coming back down the 404.
My car slid into a ditch on a concession road and can’t be driven. How do I get it to you?
Call (647) 594-3401 before agreeing to any tow destination. Ontario’s towing rules require certified operators and itemized invoices, and they leave the choice of destination with you — so the flatbed can come straight to our shop instead of a storage yard that bills the claim daily. We coordinate the pickup from wherever the car sits, including a rural laneway or a township road shoulder.
The adjuster suggested a shop in Whitby. Am I obligated to use it?
No. In Ontario, the person who owns the vehicle chooses the repair shop — an insurance company may recommend a preferred one but cannot make it a condition of the claim. Tell the adjuster the car is going to Collision Auto Center in North York, and from that point we deal with them directly, including any supplement once teardown shows the full damage.
In Uxbridge
What we repair for Uxbridge 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