To capture a growing share of the second-hand market, the Stellantis automobile group opened a vehicle reconditioning center in Oise on Thursday, dedicated to the group’s multiple brands.
Objective: 16,000 reconditioned vehicles per year and 120 employees by 2025, announced Roberta Zerbi, director of Stellantis & You, a subsidiary of the group, during a visit to the Sainte-Geneviève facilities, between Paris and Beauvais.
fifteen steps
“Vehicles, even second-hand ones, represent a very important part of the spending of French households, with an average cost of 18,000 euros,” he explained. “For a used vehicle, customer expectations are equivalent to those of a new vehicle.”
“Stellantis had to adapt to this new market,” adds Roberta Zerbi. In fact, since December the manufacturer’s Peugeot, Citroën, DS and other vehicles have been reconditioned here, in a largely automated centre.
The cars are photographed first. They are then diagnosed and repaired in about fifteen steps. The tires are scanned and the rims are treated. A “colorimetry laboratory” is responsible for repainting the bodywork. Each car has a geolocation system to follow it every step of the way.
Customer delivery
The reconditioning takes five to six days before the vehicle can be delivered to the customer directly at their home. “The entire production line is automated,” explains Jean Bartel, operational director of Repair Flow, one of the partners that developed the workshop management software, amid the noise of the machines.
The center, called SCRP (“SUSTAINera Car Reconditioning Paris”), promises “the best level of reconditioning service” in a second-hand market in “full change”, adds André Courtois, director of Weinmann technologies, another Stellantis partner.
Source: BFM TV
