Edition 01 · Published August 2026

What Australia repairs

The first Australian data report on collision repair. Twenty million ordered parts, five years, no pricing, no names. Free in your inbox, this edition and every one after it.

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LIVE DATASET JUL 2021–JUN 2026
PARTSCHECK LABS · EDITION 01May is full. December is empty.THE AVERAGE MONTHJFMA+10%MJJASON-28%DTop to bottom the year swings through thirty-eight points of workshop capacity.Each calendar month's repair volumes against that year's own average. Four complete calendar years, 2022 to 2025.PartsCheck ordered part lines, Jul 2021 – Jun 2026.Aggregated and de-identified. partscheck.net.au/labsPARTSCHECK LABS
N = 20M+ LINES CH.03 · THE CLOCKWORK YEAR
20 million+
Ordered part lines
6 million+
Repair jobs
316
Part types ordered
Jul 2021–Jun 2026
The window
34.1% of parts ordered are bumpers•40% of repair jobs need exactly one part•84% → 78% top-ten makes’ share of the order book•7.9% of part lines now carry a Chinese badge•69% in-stock rate for a quoted bullbar•94.1% weighted availability across the catalogue•20M+ ordered part lines, five years• 34.1% of parts ordered are bumpers•40% of repair jobs need exactly one part•84% → 78% top-ten makes’ share of the order book•7.9% of part lines now carry a Chinese badge•69% in-stock rate for a quoted bullbar•94.1% weighted availability across the catalogue•20M+ ordered part lines, five years•

A taste of what’s inside

Six numbers from Edition 01

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34.1%
One in three parts ordered is a bumper
THE ANATOMY OF A CRASH
40%
Four repair jobs in ten need exactly one part
THE TWO-PART JOB
84% → 78%
Toyota, Mazda and friends’ grip on the order book is slipping
A NATION OF TOYOTAS, LOOSENING
7.9%
One part line in thirteen now carries a Chinese badge
THE NEWCOMERS
69%
A bullbar is only on the shelf seven times in ten when it’s quoted
THE HARDER-TO-FIND LIST
94.1%
The everyday repair is as easy to buy for as it ever was
THE HARDER-TO-FIND LIST
Availability is a supplier’s own assertion at quote time that the part was in stock. Not verified fulfilment, not delivery, not fill rate, and never a measure of any supplier’s performance.

The shape of the data · chapter 01

PARTSCHECK LABS · EDITION 01Bumpers alone are a third of the order bookBumper34.1%Door11.6%Guard8.7%Tailgate7.0%Grille6.5%Headlamp4.8%Radiator4.0%Bonnet3.9%Wheel arch2.7%Fog lamp2.0%All ten together are 85% of every part line ordered.The ten most-ordered part types, as a share of every part line ordered over five years.PartsCheck ordered part lines, Jul 2021 – Jun 2026.Aggregated and de-identified. partscheck.net.au/labsPARTSCHECK LABS

Inside Edition 01

Ten chapters, one report

This is the full table of contents. The chapters themselves land in your inbox.

01
The anatomy of a crash
One ordered part in three is a bumper.
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02
The two-part job
The typical crash is smaller than everyone thinks.
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03
The clockwork year
The collision year runs like clockwork. 2026 broke the pattern.
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04
A nation of Toyotas, loosening
One line in four is a Toyota, but the grip is slipping.
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05
The newcomers
Fourteen makes arrived from nowhere.
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06
The electronics creep
What a bumper hides now.
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07
The SUV signature
The SUV era, written in wheel-arch flares.
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08
The disappearing parts
Three part types are dropping off the parts list.
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09
The harder-to-find list
The catalogue got harder to buy from. The everyday repair did not.
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10
What’s coming
What the parts list already knows about the next five years.
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How this is built

Aggregated. De-identified. No pricing. Ever.

PartsCheck Labs is the research imprint of PartsCheck, Australia’s largest parts procurement platform for collision repair. This is a summary of the standing rules. Full methodology is published inside every edition.

Scope
Parts ordered through PartsCheck by participating Australian repairers and suppliers, July 2021 to June 2026. Aggregated and de-identified throughout.
Identification
No repairer, supplier or insurer is identified anywhere, ever. Vehicle makes may be named: they’re a public fact about the fleet. Nothing else may be.
Pricing
No pricing is published. No list prices, no paid prices, no discounts, no win rates, no per-supplier comparison. This is a hard rule, not a default.
Volume floors
A growth figure is only published for a part type or make that cleared 5,000 ordered lines in both comparison windows. Outlier screening is applied throughout.
Coverage
A repair job appears only if at least one part was ordered for it through PartsCheck. Labour-only repairs aren’t counted, so this isn’t every repair in Australia. Tesla is not included: PartsCheck has no visibility of the parts quoted on that brand.

Availability figures, where they appear, are a supplier’s own assertion at quote time that a part was in stock: not verified fulfilment, not delivery, not fill rate, and never a measure of any supplier’s performance.

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