The first thing that anybody sees when looking at a car is, of course, the bodywork. Aesthetics are about much more than appearances. Good bodywork protects the most vulnerable parts of a car and the person who drives it. With a 200-year history and a skilled team of time-served engineers, we perform car body repairs to exceptional standards and offer comprehensive services to keep paintwork in the best possible condition.
With premises in Royal Tunbridge Wells, we welcome private motorists, fleet operators and members of the trade. Hillary’s Coachworks has a loyal portfolio of customers from the surrounding Crowborough, East Grinstead, Godstone, Heathfield, Maidstone, Oxted, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Uckfield areas, and from all parts of Southern England.
• Local and regional experts in classic car body repairs
• Experienced in the repair of modern makes and models
• A dedicated team of skilled engineers and technicians
• All repair work undertaken on jobs both large and small
• Members of the National Body Repair Association (NBRA)
The true testament to car body repairs is the previous work of our company and we invite you to visit our website gallery.
Since the turn of the 19th Century, and with more than 200 years of proud local trading behind us, we’ve grown our reputation in the field of car body repairs by working on horse-drawn coaches and carriages, and on new, classic and contemporary models from manufacturers across the world. We promise to only have skilled craftsmen working on your car, and to always have a complete range of services available.
From minor body repairs to full car resprays, we have the needs of our Tunbridge Wells, Crowborough, East Grinstead, Godstone, Heathfield, Maidstone, Oxted, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Uckfield customers well and truly covered.
Should you need us for insurance work or accident repairs, the team at Hillary’s Coachworks is here to help with those too.
Our ability to repair and restore classic models of any age is a major benefit to choosing our company, but we can take on car body repairs on models from any era. It doesn’t matter to us if your car came off the production line just a day or decades ago; we’ll still treat it with the same levels of care and respect we’ve shown since starting out around 1810.
One of the biggest concerns our customers normally have is how well we can match the colour on their cars. Body repairs require us to either remove paint to deal with dents, to restore damage to the paintwork after a collision, or to refinish new panels if we replace an old one. It makes sense that an owner will have worries. Some repairers don’t even have a mixing scheme onsite and order in paint by code.
We have a modern mixing scheme installed from ICI, one of the world’s biggest and best-known automotive paint suppliers.
Hillary’s Coachworks also has a low-bake oven to help us produce faster, cleaner paint finishes. We can match older period colours on classics just as easily as we can match the modern metallic finishes on cars from the current age.
Motorists from Tunbridge Wells, and those in Crowborough, East Grinstead, Godstone, Heathfield, Maidstone, Oxted, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Uckfield and Southern England, trust us to apply our knowledge of car body repairs on any marque, make or model. Even when challenges arise, we have the experience needed to overcome them, and to provide you with a repair service that’s built on trust, confidence and customer care.
At Hillary’s Coachworks, quality always comes first.
