LKQ Academy – the award-winning automotive training provider from LKQ UK and Ireland – has launched a new, customisable training service designed to help bodyshops address key operational challenges, including skills shortages, efficiency pressures and changing industry demands.
Unlike standard training programmes, LKQ Academy’s new Bespoke Courses are developed in collaboration with each bodyshop. The process can include site audits, a review of operational data and an assessment of existing working practices, enabling the LKQ Academy’s technical training team to identify priority areas for improvement and design a tailored training programme to address them.
Courses can be adapted to focus on a range of business requirements, including improving workshop utilisation and efficiency, advanced painter development, implementation of sustainable working practices and even apprenticeship or early-career skills development. Training can be delivered at the LKQ
Academy facility in Tamworth or on-site at a customer’s bodyshop, allowing for more focused, small-group sessions.
The offering expands the LKQ Academy’s existing technical training portfolio and supports LKQ’s commitment to be the complete solutions provider for customers, acting as their supportive parter in a changing world by providing practical training solutions tailored to individual needs. The launch reflects LKQ’s ongoing investment in training and support services for all bodyshops of all sizes, helping customers develop their teams and plan for long-term business sustainability, profitability and growth.
Lee Berridge, Head of Technical and Sustainability at LKQ, said:“Bodyshops are navigating a tougher operating environment made all the more difficult by a lack of skilled workers and escalating costs. These Bespoke Courses allow us to work closely with customers to understand their specific challenges and
deliver training that is directly aligned to their business priorities – ensuring they stay relevant in a continually evolving landscape.”
Bodyshops can explore how Bespoke Courses could address their specific challenges, by contacting their LKQ account manager. Find out more about the full range of LKQ Academy training courses at:LkqacademyLKQ Academy
About LKQ UK & Ireland
LKQ UK & Ireland is an integrated group of four market-leading businesses, which together comprise the region’s largest and leading distributor of parts and accessories for all makes of car, motorbike and light commercial vehicle, HGV, bus and coach, and static and touring caravan, motorhome and marine vehicle. The business is part of the LKQ Corporation, a Fortune 500 company which is the world’s largest auto parts provider.
Each of LKQ UK & Ireland’s businesses – LKQ Euro Car Parts, LKQ Bodyshop, LKQ Leisure and Marine and Digraph – is the biggest in its respective market, with the best and broadest product availability and the largest geographic coverage of any competitors.
LKQ Euro Car Parts and LKQ Bodyshop are the largest training providers in their industries through independent and IMI accredited, best-in-classes courses from LKQ Academy, and offer a wide range of support services to their thousands of trade customers, through their Workshop Solutions and Concepts offerings. The LKQ Academy was awarded Training Scheme of the Year 2024 by CAT Magazine, with LKQ Euro Car Parts awarded Car Distributor of the Year 2023 by the IAAF and Partner of the Year 2023 by the IMI. LKQ also secured Paint Distributor of the Year 2023 in the Repairers Choice Awards at the ABP Night of Knights.
