What you get
PartsCheck Labs is the data and research arm of PartsCheck. It turns the quotes and orders that pass through the platform into national data on collision repair, and publishes it free.
Twenty million part lines on what gets fixed, how it’s changing, and what’s rolling in next.
It asks three questions. What does the typical repair look like? How are the cars on the road changing underneath it? And what does the order book already know about what’s coming?
Why it matters to you
If you fix cars
Plan for the work that’s coming in.
Edition 01 shows what the typical job really looks like, which parts are getting harder to find when quoted, and which new makes are on their way to your workshop.
If you stock or supply parts
See where demand is moving.
Edition 01 shows which makes and part types are growing, how fast the newer makes are arriving, and where availability has slipped across the catalogue.
The report closes with what each part of the industry should take from it, with the figure to point to. That part only lives in the report.
What it tells you
Every figure below is exact and traceable to a published table. The annual report has ten chapters of this.
The shape of the data · chapter 01
Inside Edition 01
This is the full table of contents. The chapters themselves land in your inbox.
Between annual editions, Labs publishes a quarterly snapshot, each one taking a deeper dive into a topical area.
Over the last quarter, our team visited well over a hundred customers on site, across six states. Many of them raised the same thing, getting parts. So Snapshot 01 asks one question. Where is the wait coming from?
Already subscribed? Snapshot 01 is in your inbox.
Repairers say 2026 is one of the hardest years they can remember for getting parts. Our data agrees. It also shows where the wait is coming from.
One make explains the whole rise.
Inside Snapshot 01
Snapshot 01 closes with one takeaway each for repairers, suppliers, assessors and car brands. That part only lives in the report.
A wait is a supplier’s own statement at quote time that a part will take more than three days or isn’t available. It isn’t a record of what was delivered or how quickly, and never a measure of any individual supplier.
How this is built
PartsCheck Labs publishes aggregated, de-identified findings from the PartsCheck platform. These are the rules every report is built on, and each report sets out its full method at the back.
Availability figures, where they appear, are a supplier’s own statement at quote time that a part was in stock. They are not a record of whether the part arrived or how long it took, and never a measure of any individual supplier. Data is taken as entered and not independently verified. Labs is published for general information and is not advice. See Using this report, and the platform terms at partscheck.com.au/global/terms.php.
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Aggregate only. No repairer or supplier is identified anywhere in this series.