Peter’s Auto Body

I love this place. Peter and Co. are true professionals in their work. Considering the quality of the work and the customer service I would easily pay more to have them work on my car, but they don’t! Good price, good service, good feeling afterwards. That’s worth it’s weight in gold.

snowmageddon is in progress, as you fellow beantowners may know. i just got back from peter’s and enterprise (their review will follow soon). (these are related comments.) suffice it to say that my plight has not been an individual one, because as you may know (or hopefully don’t), the auto rental shops have been sold out days in advance with skyrocketing prices (i think a compact car at enterprise is starting at 70 a day right now, due to ridiculous demand).
i am happy to say that both peter, and his son, peter, are great, honest, friendly folks who give free estimates and repair as promised — both times, very close to if not exactly the estimate. and since JP isn’t so far from where i live in somerville, it’s totally worth the hike.
peter also fixed up (buffed) a couple side door scratches at no additional charge, which was really sweet of him.
in additional to all the rave reviews you can see here, i was also recommended to go to peter’s through my friend deb, who lives just a couple blocks from the auto body. consistent, great work, at very reasonable rates. good stuff.
glad to have found a reliable boston-​area body shop! now, i’m going to hope that i don’t have to use a body shop ever again, but time will tell…

Amazing job on my car! I had to get my entire rear bumper replaced and they took care of it in no time. Peter is also a sweetheart! Could not recommend Peter’s Auto Body highly enough! Best auto body shop in Boston, hands down!

He’s fixed my truck several times now (I wish people would stop hitting it ack!)… and just this week he fixed my gf’s car in short time and with the usual high quality work.
Always a pleasure, always easy to deal with, and always fair.

Great people work here. They did an excellent job fixing my prius after a car accident. They then fixed my partner’s car for free. The window came off the track. They said it was a simple job, so no charge. They totally could of charged for that. They were nice and estimates of when my car would be ready were accurate. I highly recommend Peter’s.

Fantastic, fair and ultra-​honest. Peter is a good, decent gentleman who puts himself in your shoes when he looks at a car. He is not that old, but he is old school. For example, if you have a clunker, he takes that into account and tries to do something on a budget. If it is a new, real nice car, he tells you to get it to look right he really needs to buy the expensive part. Treat him well and he will treat you well. Be an idiot, I cannot guarantee it! These are hard-​working and talented guys at a very reasonable price.

All the good reviews are spot-​on. Peter Jr. is great to deal with, being both very pleasant and a superb conversationalist, too! I had to replace the fender guard on my Toyota Matrix. While it took more time than anticipated to get the part in, and I had to keep calling to remind him to follow up on it, when the part did come in, the cost of $ 118 seemed fair (granted, I’ve never had to replace a plastic fender guard before, and if I can manage to not run over any more rocks in this low-​slung car, I won’t again). The work was done fast. I will definitely patronize Peter’s Auto Body again, the next time (hopefully not anytime soon). I pull a boneheaded driving move.

If you have to deal with car problems, this is the place to do it. In fact, I’m afraid I need to visit them this weekend. But both Peter Sr. and Jr. are awesome and make dealing with these annoying issues much easier than at other shops.

Peter’s estimate of $ 570 was about $ 800 less than the one I received from another auto body shop. They did a terrific job, car looks like new. Also, when my daughter dropped off my keys and asked about a scrape on her car, Pete took some solvent and, for no charge, cleaned it to the point that it was barely visible. A pleasure to deal with. Could not recommend more highly.

I have been to Peter’s Auto Body three different times throughout the past couple of years for repair work. I have always been very impressed with the service. First off, at Peter’s, I have consistently been quoted at least $ 200 – 400 dollars less than any other auto body shop I’ve gone to in the Boston area. Peter and his son are extremely helpful, and do an excellent job. I once went in because my sun roof was leaking water. They took my car for an hour, and they never even charged me to fix it.
I cannot say enough about great things about this shop! So glad I found them :)

Definitely would recommend this place to anyone! It’s no surprise that they have been around for a long time and have a great business! The work was good, the price was good and the customer service was even better. Peter and Peter, Jr. were so helpful. My car door was dented and the whole side needed to be replaced. They quoted me almost $ 400 less then other auto body shops in the area. They worked with me in getting the work done fast because I couldn’t afford the rental car for more then 3 days. About an hour after I left I found that I couldn’t open my door from the inside, so I called Peter. He had no problem with me coming right back down and took a look. He fixed the issue within 15 minutes. Very generous and helpful. Peter — if you are reading this, thanks again!

Peter quoted me $ 200 less than a garage in Brookline quoted me, and $ 550 less than the insurance company had estimated.
Peter’s was recommended to me by a garage/​gas station that I live by in JP, because they’re one of the only garages that can do paint jobs in-​house.
Peter and the older mechanic I talked to were super nice and friendly. He also stood by his original quote, even after the insurance company of the guy that hit my car quoted almost $ 1000 for the damage. …needless to say, I’m really really happy. :)
Thanks Peter & co!

Peter Sr. and Peter Jr. are the nicest gentlemen. Their prices are so much fairer than anywhere else I took my car; the quality is superb. I felt like I was walking back in time – they REALLY know what they’re doing, and the feel and kindness of the place is like being in Maybery! Remember Maybery? It was the town on the old Andy Griffith Show where everyone knew one another, everyone wanted to help one another, and everyone tried to give you a fair deal. Pretty cool for the big city. Support this place. There aren’t too many like it anymore!

I needed some minor body work done on my car. I went into 5 different auto body repair shops in and around Jamaica Plain. 4 out of the 5 quotes I got were between $ 500 and $ 650. Peter’s Auto Body quoted me $ 250, and only charged me $ 240 out the door! The work they did was great and the car is now back to looking brand new!

Had my second stint with Peter’s Autobody in Jamaica Plain (there is another Peter’s in Dorchester — drive or run as fast as you can from that shop!) Have nothing but praise for them. Professional, fair, quality work, and just a delight to work with. And they are honest. Works for you but also does not screw the insurance companies like a lot of the other places.
It is run by two Peters — the younger and the older. Let me take the car for the weekend before it was finished because I needed it. Then when I brought it back, Peter the elder drove me home.
They work with you and they work with the insurance company. I hope I never have to use their services again but if someone rear ends me again, I will ONLY use them.
Rolf F./JP resident.

I was amazed with the work Peter’s Auto Body did on my car. I got into a 5m bumper to bumper with an SUV, my hood was out of place and my bumper looked all scratched up. My insurance kicked in (oh boy! don’t you love surcharges??) and I left the entire process in Peter’s hands. Excellent service, excellent quality, quick turnaround time, 100% outstanding business practices (he even reimbursed a rental vehicle after a miscommunication we had when my insurance didn’t want to help out!) If there were more stars he would get them!

I cannot say enough good things about my experience with Peter’s.
When I started commuting to Waltham, I knew that an accident was inevitable. You can’t spend as much time as I do in a car multi-​tasking without escaping collision. So a few weeks ago, I’m simultaneously adjusting my breakfast sandwich and entering the on-​ramp to I-​93 when I plow into the back of a lovely Volvo. Fortunately the sandwich was salvaged. The front of my car was not.
I found Peter’s through Unilocal and read the glowing review. I dropped my car off one morning and Peter Senior attended to me. Right away I got good vibes and I knew I was going to be well-​taken care of.
I anticipated having to be in touch with Peter’s as the haggled their way through the insurance adjustment, but all was quiet. In fact, they finished my car earlier than I planned and all I had to do was sign on the dotted line that the insurance company could pay them. When I picked up the car, I had the pleasure of meeting Peter Junior, who is also apparently as nice a guy as his father. If I had known that it was so painless to deal with car accidents, I would have had a few earlier.
Now, about their work. Let’s just say that the front end of my car looks so good that I’m now hoping someone will rear-​end me so that I can have Peter’s to the back-​end, too. The whole thing looks fantastic and you can tell that they cut no corners. In fact, this is just how awesome these guys are: I had to get my windshield replaced, and it occurred to me that I was going to lose my school parking pass that was affixed to my old windshield. But when I picked up the car, the sticker was on the new windshield in just the right place and it didn’t even look like it had been touched! Same with my inspection sticker and FastLane transponder. What attention to detail!!!
So if you’re unfortunate enough to get in a fender bender, don’t stress! Just call Peter’s.

There are no two worst words in a New England winter than «black ice.» Fortunately, the reciprical of those words are «Peter’s Auto Body».
It always sucks when your «virgin» car (newish) gets it’s first fender-​bender. There are real «chop shops» out there — especially those who also do double duty as a towing service for the City of Boston — towing vehicles parked 3 minutes too late on street cleaning night. Then to make matters worst, their sloppy slim jimming put tears in my weather stripping, but that was a long time ago and I digress.
Peter (yes, the name of the company still runs it — how rare these days), came recommended by the insurance adjustor even though PsAB is outside of the Met Life «preferred shops» list. That was clue number one that this was a solid recommendation since «making a buck» is #1 on any insurance company’s list of priorities (followed by God and Country as distant second and third place).
When I went in for the initial consult, he was no BS and very professional. We discussed how auto body shops use big globs of bondo instead of taking the time, and procedures to properly pull out dents. He asked for the required time with appropriate expectations setting to do the job right, and lo and behold, the car was finished on time, on budget and looked fabulous.
Plus his shop is a hop, skip and jump from the Forrest Hills T stop — and a 15 and 20 min commute to Back Bay and Downtown Crossing stops respectively.
I hope you never have to find an auto body shop, but if you do find yourself in need, you can’t do much better than Peter.