ANNOUNCING THE NEW TECHZONE FRANCHISE

Automotive interior technology is currently in high demand. All makes and modelsof cars come loaded with high tech instruments and electronic creature comforts. Most all vehicles have 25-50 distinctly separate interior electrical components that can malfunction, break or become damaged.  Car theft and vandalism are some of the most common crimes in America .  Many of these cars are recovered and returned to their owners. The damage is usually inside the car and the need for a qualified repair service is in demand. A competent interior service provider is in high demand.

TechZone® has been created by the safety specialists at Airbag Service. Since 1994, Doug and Tori Hansen, founders of Airbag Service have been placing AS Franchise operations through out North America . Airbag Service is the nations only organized provider of OEM airbag repair, diagnostics and replacements from a mobile platform.

Now the Hansen’s have a new high tech franchise offering called TechZone®. Becoming a Mobile Automotive Interior Technology Specialist a technical automotive entrepreneur can hold an important position in the world of automotive repair.

“By combining automotive repair experience with TechZone® training, tools, technical support and the premier Airbag Service® Certification you have a new business system that will transport a technician into the world of high tech automotive repair” states Tori Hansen, Vice President of TechZone®.

Customers include body shops, insurance companies, vehicle owners and anyone who needs a competent interior service specialist.  By embracing the interior repair requirement of all makes and models of vehicles a TechZone technician can install a new supplemental restraint systems (airbag), restore severely damaged interiors or replace a dashboard as well as diagnose and fix anything inside a vehicle. During the course of repair, if a technician encounters a challenging problem, there is real time technical support a phone call away.

Anyone can own a TechZone® Franchise. TechZone® offers two types of franchise operations. The first is a single mobile van program, the MIT (Mobile Interior Technician) based upon an APR (Area of Primary Responsibility). The second franchise operation is a Standard TechZone® Franchise, based on a fixed site location with an exclusive defined territory running multiple service vans. “There is room for several MIT’s in all cities throughout America ” according to the Hansen’s.

Every TechZone franchise begins with a 3-week training program held at the TechZone® Corporate Headquarters in Seattle , Washington .  Here a franchisee will learn the interior technology repair systems and SRS diagnostics of all current makes and models of cars.  A franchisee will receive Autopilot™, an automated proprietary estimating and invoicing software that provides the information necessary to fix cars and run a successful TechZone® business. Also included in the franchise systems are business planning, marketing and sales materials and ongoing corporate technical and business support.

The Hansen’s have launched a TechZone® is Seattle and plan to Open an MIT in Chicago , California , Florida and Georgia by the end of 2004.