Precision Frame Work in Ranburne, AL

The name over the door is Ledbetter's Body and Frame Shop, and plenty of auto body shops leave off that second half. Ours has carried it since 1962, back when frame work meant a heavy chain and a good eye. It means computerized measurement now, and the standard it has to meet is the same: factory specification, verified, not estimated.

Measured against the manufacturer's numbers

Our computerized measuring equipment compares control points on your vehicle to the published dimensional data for that exact model. We take readings before the work starts, watch them while the structure is being brought back, and confirm at the end that everything landed where the automaker intended. The tolerance is millimeters, which is well past what anyone can judge by looking.

Alignment is part of the job, not an add-on

Suspension pickup points are mounted to the structure. Move the structure and you have moved the geometry, which is why we check and correct wheel alignment after any frame or suspension damage. Skip it and the owner finds out three thousand miles later, in the form of a pull to one side and a front tire worn down the inside edge. Fixing it then means new tires on top of the alignment.

Cars and trucks both

Unibody vehicles and body-on-frame trucks come off different procedures, and we set up for whichever is in front of us. Farm and work trucks in this part of Alabama tend to arrive with older damage layered under new, and untangling that honestly is part of the estimate.

Worth the drive, because there is not one of these on every corner

Frame equipment is expensive and the training behind it takes years, so shops that can measure structure properly are thin on the ground out here. Vehicles come to us across Cleburne County, Alabama, from Heflin, Fruithurst, and Edwardsville, down from Anniston and Oxford, and over the Georgia line from Carrollton, Temple, and Villa Rica. If a shop nearer to you has told you the frame is fine without putting it on a measuring system, a second opinion costs you nothing here.

If something feels off after a wreck, a pull, a shudder, a door that fits differently, bring it to Ranburne and let us measure it. Call (256) 568-3423.