Towing, collision and frame repair, auto glass, mechanical work and certified ignition interlock installation, all at one shop on Locust Street in Lathrop. We are a NAPA AutoCare shop, so the warranty on the mechanical work follows you out of the county.
Tow line answered 24 hours · NAPA AutoCare nationwide warranty · Certified interlock installer
Five services
If you get hit on 33 at eleven at night, the same shop pulls the car out of the ditch, writes the estimate, argues with the adjuster, replaces the windshield and puts it back on the road. Nobody hands you off and nothing sits on a lot for a week waiting on the next place to have room.
Flatbed and wheel lift, light duty through three quarter ton, plus winch outs, rollovers, lockouts and jump starts. The phone is answered at two in the morning by somebody who is going to get in the truck, not by an answering service in another state.
hook $95 + $4.50 / mi
Unibody and frame straightening on the rack, panel replacement, blending and refinish. We write the estimate, take the photos the adjuster needs and handle the supplement so you are not the middleman between two companies.
estimate free
Windshields, door glass, back glass and chips, most of it billed straight to your insurance with no deductible on a chip repair. Camera and sensor recalibration on anything that needs it, which is most vehicles built after 2018.
chips from $65
Brakes, suspension, steering, cooling, exhaust, diagnostics, alignments and tires. NAPA AutoCare parts and labor are covered for two years or twenty-four thousand miles at any member shop in the country, which matters if you break down on a trip.
diag $95
Certified installation, calibration and the monthly monitoring appointments, done here instead of an hour away in the metro. We understand the reporting deadlines because we deal with them every week, and we will get you in this week rather than next month.
install from $105
Paintless dent repair on door dings and hail, plus buff, polish and interior detail. Worth doing before a trade-in and worth doing on a hail car when the panel does not need paint.
from $85 / panel
What it runs
Collision work is quoted off the car and not off the phone, because the panel you can see is rarely the whole bill. Estimates are free and we will write one whether or not insurance is involved. If your insurer tells you the car has to go to their shop, that is not true in Missouri and we will say so on the phone. Prices here are illustrative for this preview.
In the bay
Most of what comes in on the hook is deer damage from October through December and ice from January through February. The rest of the year it is fenders in parking lots and windshields off gravel trucks, which is the same list every shop in a farm county has.
The shop
Owner name goes here bought the shop on Locust Street and added services one at a time as the county needed them: body work first, then the wrecker, then glass, then the interlock certification because people were driving to Kansas City for it. He still takes the night calls on the tow line himself more often than he should.
Almost nobody knows all five of those things happen here, because the shop has never had a website and a wrecker does not advertise. That is the whole reason for this page.
Owner name goes here, Lathrop
Tow area
123 Main St
Lathrop, MO 64465
Office is the door on the left. If you are dropping a car after hours, pull it onto the gravel on the north side, leave the keys in the drop box and put your phone number on the envelope.
If you are on the side of the road right now, call and say where you are first and what the car is second. Cross roads and mile markers get us there faster than an address does. If everybody is out on a call the phone rolls to a cell and it still gets answered.
Towns we cover: Lathrop, Plattsburg, Trimble, Turney, Holt, Kearney, Smithville, Cameron, Gower, Polo, Osborn, Stewartsville, Excelsior Springs, and Highway 33 and Interstate 35 through Clinton and Clay County.