Commercial Collision Facility Serving Houston, TX Operators

The work at our facility comes out of highly trained technicians who have been here for decades. Many members of our staff have over 30 years of individual experience in collision repair. They have worked on commercial fleets, motorhomes, fire apparatus, and specialty units across four decades of changes in how vehicles are built and what they are made of. They are cherished members of this business, and that experience is why a fire apparatus and a 5th wheel can go through the same facility without the quality changing.

Aguirrie Paint & Body has been family-owned since 1978. Anthony founded the facility, and his son runs it now as a second-generation operation serving the next generation of customers. For an operator sending a unit several hours from home, that matters in a specific way: the person who owns the business is the person who answers for the repair, and the technicians who handled the last unit are the ones handling the next.

Houston is the longest haul of the major Texas markets we serve, so the phone call comes before the drive. A few things are worth sorting out first:

When the unit arrives, we look at it, tell you what we found, and walk you through what the repair involves.

The Gulf Coast has a strong RV culture. Houston-area owners run Class A motorhomes, 5th Wheel RVs, and bumper pull trailers down to the coast, west toward the Hill Country, and across the country, and bring them home to the region between trips.

A 45-foot motorhome takes clearance. Our 82-foot downdraft bake oven spray booth, one of the largest in Central Texas, provides the length and clearance for a Class A motorhome to be section refinished in one piece, in a controlled, high-heat environment. All section refinishing is performed using the Sherwin Williams system for precision color matching and a durable finish to pre-accident condition. We refinish only the areas affected by the collision. After the collision repair is complete, we perform a technical inspection of the repaired areas to verify the work meets the vehicle’s original manufacturer specifications.

For full-time residents who live in their motorhomes, the family-owned setup is the other half of it. The owners are present and the work is personal. If your home took collision damage and you want to sit down and go through the repair in detail before anything begins, we will take the time.

Houston runs a substantial fire and EMS operation. Fire trucks responding across the region. Ambulances operating across the medical district and community hospitals throughout the metro. Specialty builds serving the petrochemical corridor, the port, and the regional industrial centers.

Many of those units are built on Spartan foundations, and when one takes collision damage the warranty and the certification of the repair both come into it. As a Spartan Certified Warranty Repair Facility, we are authorized to perform chassis and collision warranty work on any vehicle built on a Spartan foundation. The certification covers chassis and collision specifically, not general service, which means a Spartan-foundation unit from Houston that comes here for collision repair keeps its warranty intact and the repair is performed to the standards Spartan has authorized us to maintain.

For Houston fire chiefs, EMS administrators, and specialty fleet managers, the certification is what determines whether a warranty repair can be performed here.

A standard visual estimate is often an incomplete picture of collision damage. The adjuster writes up the panel damage, and the structural damage surfaces later, once the repair is underway. For an operator who brought a unit in from the Gulf Coast, having the full scope documented at the start matters more, not less.

We use a blue print process for every collision repair. This is a systematic technical teardown and inspection of the vehicle’s frame and internal components, performed before the repair begins. Our highly trained technicians identify how the energy from the impact transferred through the chassis, document every point of damage with photographs, and provide your carrier with the documentation needed to cover a complete repair to pre-accident condition. The scope goes to the carrier at the start rather than after the operator has driven home.