Barbados, March 10th – 13th 2014

Automotive Art opened its training room doors in Wildey to facilitate Technical Vehicle Refinishing Training for some of its distribution partners. The class of eight included partners from Tortola, Canada, and a most recent addition to the team from the US.

This training covered the wide range of products Automotive Art offers. The Automotive Art Technical Training Team spent the 4 days covering in-depth details of all products, theory and practical, from pre-treatment to colour matching.

Dominic Rivest of AB Express in Quebec Canada was impressed with Automotive Art’s complete product range and referred to it as ”everything you need to use – from A to Z”.

The partners-turned-students were excited throughout the training and were most impressed with Automotive Art’s new Base Coat system - Motobase LV. Curtis Hellmen of Canadian Automotive Paint Supplies was no exception.

“I really like all the products they have. Their filler works great. Their polyesters are fantastic and their new line of base coat [Motobase LV] is fantastic! I can’t wait to get up to Canada to try it out!”

Motobase LV is a Low VOC Compliant Solvent Base Coat System, which is compliant with the strict Low VOC laws being implemented in some of the US states. This comes off the heels of Automotive Arts recent and rapid expansion into the US. Executive Chairman Dereck Foster expressed his excitement for the company’s development of Motobase LV and being able to host training in Barbados.

“This system is not only Low VOC compliant, but it saves our partners time and money using 30% less toners than most other systems. Not to mention accurately matching over 150,000 colours with our colour matching software. We are launching in New Jersey next week and the team there is really excited to work with this system!

“So we are really happy to be able to bring our partners here for training in what they consider to be a top class facility, right in the middle of paradise.”

The 4 days concluded with a colour matching test where the attendees put what they learnt to the test. Motie Ram Kanhai from Tortola referred to the colour matching as perfect.

“We did it, we tried it, we put it to the test and guess what? Everybody’s was flawless!”

All attendees enjoyed a “last-lap” social dinner on the West Coast on the final night, to wrap up an overall exciting experience.

Automotive Art is a Barbadian owned and managed automotive aftermarket franchise chain and distribution company that operates in 65 countries including the Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America.

Photo: The Trainers and Trainees in front of the Automotive Art Mixing Bank

From Left to Right – Peter Padmore, Barbados; Curtis Hilman, Canada; Motie Ram Kanhai, Tortola; Devender Chitnarine, Tortola; Leslie Fried, NJ, USA; Ugochukwu Eboh, Tortola; John Pitt, Tortola; Orville Clarke, Barbados; Dominic Rivest, Canada; Maxime Waked, Canada.