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Panel Beater
Panel beaters repair damage on vehicle bodies and endeavour to restore damaged vehicles to factory state.
A panel beater, also known as an auto body mechanic, may work in a large shop that provides many services or in a small independent shop that concentrates on high-end vehicles or racing cars. In some shops, a worker designated only as a panel beater does all the various jobs in the course of repairing a car from start to finish with no one working under him or her. In most cases, however, there are separate workers who specialise in such areas as cutting out dents, patching panels, chassis alignment, and spray painting.
The term "panel beating" comes from the older days when it was common for cars to have separate external panels. Before dent-resistant modern plastics were used in place of metal, cars had external metal bodywork that could be dented or damaged. The damaged panels would then need to be beaten back into their original shape with a hammer and dolly (a pair of tools).