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Automotive Trade and Repair Shops

Safe, compliant, and future-ready workshops

Automotive trade and repair shops are evolving rapidly in response to new vehicle technologies, stricter regulations, and rising customer expectations. From electric vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems to digital diagnostics and sustainability requirements. What workshops have to do first, is to continuously adapt.
DEKRA supports automotive dealers and repair shops with independent expertise, helping them ensure safety, compliance, and operational excellence.
DEKRA’s Key Strengths for Trade and Repair Shops
Workshop Safety

DEKRA provides neutral, third-party assessments that help automotive trade and repair shops meet legal, safety, and regulatory requirements with confidence.

Practical Solutions

Our services are designed around real-world workshop processes, supporting efficient inspections, compliant equipment use, and reliable operational workflows.

New Technologies

We help workshops adapt to electric vehicles, advanced driver assistance systems, and digital diagnostics through inspections, certifications, and targeted training.

Building Trust

Through recognized inspections, certifications, and expert assessments, DEKRA helps repair shops demonstrate professionalism, quality, and reliability to all stakeholders.

Our Approach

Practical and scalable solutions for today’s automotive workshops
DEKRA supports automotive trade and repair shops with practical, scalable solutions aligned with daily workshop operations and evolving regulatory requirements. Our services are designed to strengthen safety, compliance, and operational efficiency while preparing businesses for new vehicle technologies.
Our focus includes:
  • Vehicle and workshop safety inspections
  • Compliance with legal, environmental, and occupational standards
  • Qualification of personnel and process certification
  • High-voltage and ADAS competence development
  • Support for digital diagnostics and technological transformation
By combining independent inspections, certifications, and targeted training programs, we help workshops improve service quality, reduce liability risks, increase operational efficiency, and safeguard long-term customer trust.
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Our Featured Services
Trust proven strategies and proprietary tools to create tailored programs that meet your specified goals. From product development to aftermarket, DEKRA guides you through each step as we assess needs, develop an action plan, and implement your solution.
FAQ
For automotive trade and repair shops, Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) refers to independent services that verify whether vehicles, workshop equipment, facilities, and processes comply with legal, safety, and quality requirements.
TIC services help workshops operate safely, reduce liability risks, and demonstrate compliance to authorities, insurers, and customers.
Independent third-party inspections provide objective confirmation that workshop operations meet applicable legal and safety requirements.
For repair shops, this independence is critical to reduce liability risks, support insurance coverage, and build customer trust. DEKRA’s neutral assessments ensure transparency and credibility without conflicts of interest.
DEKRA supports workshops by inspecting vehicles, equipment, and facilities in line with national and international regulations.
This includes safety inspections, environmental compliance checks, and documentation support. DEKRA helps workshops understand regulatory requirements and implement them correctly in daily operations.
Workshop operations involve safety risks related to vehicles, machinery, chemicals, and electrical systems. DEKRA helps identify and mitigate these risks through workplace inspections, equipment checks, and occupational safety assessments.
This improves employee safety, reduces accidents, and supports compliant operations.
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