Serving Prior Lake · about 5.5 mi from the shop
Auto body shop serving Prior Lake, MN
Prior Lake doesn’t have a collision shop of its own — Prime Auto Body is the closest 5.0-rated body shop, about ten minutes up Eagle Creek Avenue in neighboring Savage.
5.0 110+ Google reviews · read them- Drive time
- about 9–14 min
- The route
- CR 21 / Eagle Creek Ave north to Hwy 13
Why Prior Lake drivers make the trip
Worth the drive, once — then it’s your shop
Whether you’re coming from the lakes, The Wilds, or the Mystic Lake area, CR 21 to Hwy 13 puts you at our door faster than any chain location. We handle the insurance claim start to finish, and weekend drop-offs can be arranged — useful when the boat trailer clipped the fender on a Sunday.
Around Prior Lake: Upper & Lower Prior Lake · Mystic Lake · The Wilds · Lakefront Park
Your insurance can’t choose your shop — Minnesota Statute § 72A.201 puts that choice with you. Here’s how that works.
Ten minutes up Eagle Creek Avenue
County Road 21 is the spine of Prior Lake, and once it becomes Eagle Creek Avenue it runs almost directly to us. From Lakefront Park the trip is a little under six miles; from The Wilds or the Mystic Lake side it is a couple of minutes more. No freeway merges are involved and no river crossing, which is why a damaged but drivable car usually reaches us without drama. Customers routinely tell us the drive took under fifteen minutes even in afternoon traffic.
That short hop is the whole argument. Prior Lake has no collision shop inside the city, so every repair here is a trip somewhere — the only questions are which direction and how far. North on 21 lands you at a shop with an unblemished five-star record. The alternatives generally mean the 35W corridor and a longer sit in traffic on both ends of the job. Bring the car up once and we take over the claim, the parts, and the adjuster from there.
Boat trailers, docks, and the rest of what the lake does to a car
Lake towns generate a particular kind of damage. Backing a trailer down a ramp with a spotter who is guessing puts creases in tailgates and quarter panels. Hitch balls meet bumper covers in driveways. Loading gear onto a roof rack chips the paint at the edge of the door opening, and by August that chip has started to lift. None of it is a highway collision, but all of it is bodywork, and it is the reason our summer schedule from Prior Lake looks nothing like our February one.
Winter flips the pattern again. Once Upper and Lower Prior Lake freeze and the fish houses go out, in come the tow-strap marks, the bumper pulled loose backing off a rutted approach, the underbody scrapes from a ramp that iced over. We refinish the panel to your paint code and blend it into the ones beside it so a repaired quarter does not read as a repaired quarter under summer sun. The refinish underneath is covered by our lifetime paint warranty.
Who picks the shop when the claim opens
The call from an adjuster often arrives with a name attached and a tone that makes it sound settled. It is not. Minnesota Statute § 72A.201 lists steering among the unfair claims practices an insurance company may not engage in — no requiring a shop, no leaning on you with incentives or warnings to get you there. Say you are taking the car to Prime Auto Body in Savage and the claim proceeds normally. Prior Lake drivers do exactly that every week without trouble.
What happens after that is our job, not yours. Every insurance company is accepted here. We open the file and meet the adjuster on site so the inspection happens with the car apart rather than from a parking-lot glance. When teardown turns up a cracked bracket or a bent rail the first estimate never included, we document it and submit the supplement ourselves. You end up with one point of contact instead of three, and one phone number that reaches a person who knows the vehicle.
Prior Lake questions
Questions from Prior Lake drivers
Straight answers before you commit to anything — and a human on the phone when you want one.
Is there a body shop in Prior Lake itself?
No — Prior Lake has no collision repair shop of its own. We are the nearest 5.0-rated body shop, about five and a half miles north on County Road 21 and Eagle Creek Avenue, typically nine to fourteen minutes.
The boat trailer dented my tailgate. Is that worth a claim?
Sometimes not. A single panel is often cheaper to handle yourself than to run through a policy with a deductible attached. Send us pictures and we will put the written number in your hands first, so the decision gets made with a real figure rather than a guess. The estimate costs nothing either way.
Can I drop the car off on a weekend?
Saturdays are regular hours here — we are open until 11 PM — and Sundays we open by appointment. That covers most Prior Lake drop-offs, since damage around the lake tends to happen on a weekend in the first place.
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Three photos from the parking lot are enough to start: one full corner of the vehicle, one close-up of the damage, one wide shot. A written estimate comes back within 24 hours — or book a time to bring the car in, or have us call you.
- Response
- Within 24 hours
- Cost
- Free, no obligation
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- (651) 460-9996
Photo estimates cover what a camera can see. If teardown reveals hidden damage, we document it with photos and clear it with you (and your insurance) before any extra work.
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Mon–Sat · 9 AM–11 PM · Sundays by appointment · 8080 W 125th St, Unit G, Savage