You can request that your car is repaired by us. Just tell your insurer when you make the claim. Whether the accident was your fault or not, we guide you through the process from start to finish and handle the communication and paperwork with insurers on your behalf. Not sure whether to claim? We will give you an honest opinion on whether it is worth making.
Experience in the car body repair trade
Radius covered from Bury St Edmunds

Most of our work is everyday damage on family cars: kerbed bumpers, car park dents, scratched wings and tired paintwork. We explain what the repair involves and what it will not fix, then you decide. We do not judge, we just fix it.
Vans, taxis and company cars earn nothing sitting off the road, so we plan the work around your operating days and give you a realistic timeframe when we quote. Fleet repairs and end of lease returns are a regular part of our week.
Forecourt prep, scuffed alloys, machine polishing and localised paint repairs that make stock look ready to sell. We offer our services to garages and trade dealers as well as the public, and can sequence several vehicles at once.

From a bumper scuff to a full respray, plus accident repairs, non fault claims, fleet, end of lease and trade work. Every spraying job is done in our own booth on site, by a team with 22 years in the trade.
Smart Spray Bodywork is an independent bodyshop with 22 years in the car body repair trade. The same team looks at your photographs, quotes the job, carries out the repair and hands the car back. Customers come to us from Mildenhall, Newmarket, Thetford, Stowmarket, Haverhill, Sudbury, Ely and Cambridge, and our Bury St Edmunds workshop is an easy run from the A11 and A14.
Paint is fussy about where it is applied. All paintwork is done in our spray booth, where temperature, airflow and moisture are controlled while the paint goes on and while it cures, which allows us to achieve quality results. Add over 22 years in the trade, proper preparation underneath and an honest opinion on every job, and you get a repair that still looks right a few winters later.
The quickest way is WhatsApp. Send a few photographs of the damage to 07939 755264, one close up and one from a few steps back, and tell us the make, model and colour. We will come back with a free, no obligation quote and an honest opinion.
We mix to your paint code, then check the colour by eye against the actual panel, because after 22 years we know a code alone is not enough. On metallics, pearls and faded paint we blend into the adjoining panel so there is no hard line where the repair stops.
It depends on the job, and we will give you a realistic timeframe when we quote. Small cosmetic repairs are quick, and a full respray takes longer because of the preparation underneath. We do not keep cars longer than we need to.
It is decided by the damage rather than a price list: the size and depth of it, whether the panel or bumper has to come off, and the colour, because metallics and pearls need blending into the panel next door. Send photographs to 07939 755264 for a free, no obligation quote and honest advice.
Many smaller repairs cost less than a typical excess, and if you pay yourself there is no claim on your policy, so your no claims discount and renewal premium are not affected. Where the damage is serious or another party is involved, a claim usually makes more sense. Either way we will guide you through it and handle the paperwork with your insurer.
Customers come to us from roughly a twenty five mile radius around Bury St Edmunds, including Mildenhall, Newmarket, Thetford, Brandon, Lakenheath, Ixworth, Stowmarket, Haverhill, Sudbury, Ely and Cambridge. Our workshop sits just off the A11 and A14, so the run in is straightforward.
Everything is done at our own workshop in Bury St Edmunds, just off the A11 and A14, which puts us within an easy drive of Newmarket, Mildenhall, Thetford and Cambridge. Each town has its own page with journey times and the jobs we see most from there: start with areas we serve.
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