Heck's Collision Center LLC

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Heck's Collision Center LLC Heck’s Collision Center is a full service auto body shop serving the entire White Mountain community.

We are conveniently located on Porter Mountain road, one-quarter mile off Highway 260/White Mountain Boulevard. Stop in for a free estimate, we're open Monday thru Friday 8:00 to 5:00.

A paint booth is part of how Heck's got started.Craig Heck grew up around engines, paint booths, and body shops. As frie...
10/15/2026

A paint booth is part of how Heck's got started.

Craig Heck grew up around engines, paint booths, and body shops. As friends told friends and demand grew, Craig bought a paint booth and expanded into a dedicated facility. That is the shop you know today.

Paint is still at the center of what we do. We are a certified PPG Collision Repair Center, and every refinish is handled in-house, in a clean, controlled booth environment, using advanced color-matching technology and OEM-quality materials. The goal is a repair you cannot find.

Up here it is about more than looks. A proper finish is what protects your vehicle from the Arizona sun, the heat, and the road debris that comes with White Mountains driving. And as an I-CAR Gold Class shop, every technician who touches your vehicle is trained in current paint systems and OEM repair standards.

👉 Request your free estimate: https://www.heckscollision.com/request-an-estimate

🔧 Heck's Collision Center
📍 2701 Porter Mountain Rd., Lakeside, AZ 85929
📞 928.368.2288
🌐 www.heckscollision.com

This is what the middle of a repair actually looks like.Every vehicle that comes in for collision work gets its own cart...
10/08/2026

This is what the middle of a repair actually looks like.

Every vehicle that comes in for collision work gets its own cart. As the damaged area comes apart, every bumper cover, grille, bracket, and headlight assembly goes onto that vehicle's cart, tagged with its repair order. Nothing gets mixed up, nothing gets lost, and nothing gets reused that should have been replaced.

Teardown is also where we find what nobody can see from the outside. The crushed absorber behind a bumper cover that looked fine. The cracked bracket. The bent mount. That is why a careful teardown matters, and why the first estimate is not always the final one.

It is not the glamorous part of the job. It is the part that makes the rest of it right.

👉 Request your free estimate: https://www.heckscollision.com/request-an-estimate

Starting October with a thank you.Paul brought us his Ford and left this review on CarWise. The line that stuck with us ...
10/01/2026

Starting October with a thank you.

Paul brought us his Ford and left this review on CarWise. The line that stuck with us was not the one about the repair. It was the last one: everyone there was very friendly and nice to work with.

Doing the bodywork correctly is the job. That part is not optional. How you get treated while your vehicle is in our care is a choice we make every morning, and it matters most when you are having a rotten week because of an accident you never asked for.

Thank you, Paul. We appreciate you taking the time to write it down.

👉 Request your free estimate: https://www.heckscollision.com/request-an-estimate

🔧 Heck's Collision Center
📍 2701 Porter Mountain Rd., Lakeside, AZ 85929
📞 928.368.2288
🌐 www.heckscollision.com

The days are getting shorter, and if your headlights have gone yellow and hazy, you are about to notice it.Oxidized head...
09/29/2026

The days are getting shorter, and if your headlights have gone yellow and hazy, you are about to notice it.

Oxidized headlight lenses can cut your usable light dramatically. On dark mountain roads where elk step out of the treeline, that difference is not cosmetic, it is stopping distance.

Headlight restoration is quick, affordable, and one of the highest value things you can do before the darker months. It also makes an older vehicle look years newer.

Ask us about it next time you are by the shop.

👉 Learn more: https://www.heckscollision.com/our-services/auto-body-repair

🔧 Heck's Collision Center
📍 2701 Porter Mountain Rd., Lakeside, AZ 85929
📞 928.368.2288
🌐 www.heckscollision.com

Happy first day of fall, White Mountains.The aspens are starting to turn, the mornings have an edge to them, and it is g...
09/22/2026

Happy first day of fall, White Mountains.

The aspens are starting to turn, the mornings have an edge to them, and it is getting dark noticeably earlier than it did a month ago. These next few weeks are the best of the whole year up here.

Fall is also short at this elevation, and it is the window where everything is still easy. Sealing a paint chip before moisture gets into it. Clearing a hazy headlight before the early dark. Fixing a windshield chip before the first hard frost and the defroster find it. All of that is simple in September and expensive in January.

So enjoy the season, take the long way home through the pines, and sometime this week give your vehicle ten minutes and good light.

https://www.heckscollision.com/request-an-estimate

Twenty-five years. Today we remember the nearly 3,000 lives lost on September 11, 2001, and we honor the firefighters, p...
09/11/2026

Twenty-five years.

Today we remember the nearly 3,000 lives lost on September 11, 2001, and we honor the firefighters, police officers, paramedics, and ordinary people who ran toward the danger when everyone else was running away.

We also think of those still carrying the cost of that day, and of the first responders here in the White Mountains who answer the call for our own community every single day.

Never forget.

Happy Labor Day from all of us at Heck's Collision Center!Today is about the people who build, fix, and keep things runn...
09/07/2026

Happy Labor Day from all of us at Heck's Collision Center!

Today is about the people who build, fix, and keep things running. In our trade that means the technicians who learn a new vehicle platform every year, match a paint finish by eye and by science, and put a family's car back together right.

We are grateful for our crew and for the skilled tradespeople all across the White Mountains.

Our shop is closed today for the holiday. We will be back Tuesday at 8:00 AM.

If you are traveling home from the lake or the rim, take your time out there. The roads are busy and there is no prize for arriving five minutes sooner!

Heading out on the forest roads this holiday weekend? Those roads throw rocks.Every chip in your paint is a spot where m...
09/02/2026

Heading out on the forest roads this holiday weekend?

Those roads throw rocks.

Every chip in your paint is a spot where moisture can get to bare metal, and once winter arrives that small chip turns into rust. The fix now is simple. The fix in spring is bodywork.

If your hood, front bumper, or leading edges have collected chips this summer, get them sealed up before the cold and moisture set in. It is one of the cheapest things you can do to protect your vehicle's value.

Call us at 928.368.2288 or request an estimate online: https://www.heckscollision.com/request-an-estimate

🐶 A message from Zuma: Happy National Dog Day to all my fellow good boys and girls out there!To the ranch dogs and the p...
08/26/2026

🐶 A message from Zuma:

Happy National Dog Day to all my fellow good boys and girls out there!

To the ranch dogs and the porch dogs. The ones riding sh***un with their head out the window. The ones who lose their minds when the truck pulls in. The lake swimmers, the ball chasers, the world class nappers.

To the shelter dogs still waiting on their people. Hang in there. Somebody's coming.

And to every dog out there who has ever inspected a lunch box without permission: I see you. I am you.

Go get an extra treat today. You've earned it. 🦴

📍 2701 Porter Mountain Rd., Lakeside, AZ 85929
📞 1.928.368.2288
🌐 heckscollision.com

🎨 Behind the scenes: the room where your color gets made.Most people never see this part of the shop, but it's where a h...
08/24/2026

🎨 Behind the scenes: the room where your color gets made.

Most people never see this part of the shop, but it's where a huge amount of the quality happens.

This is our paint mixing room. Every one of those containers on the wall is a toner, and your vehicle's color doesn't come premixed in a can. It gets built right here, one component at a time, weighed on a digital scale down to the gram.

Here's the part most folks don't realize: your paint code is a starting point, not a finish line. Two vehicles with the identical factory code can look different after a few years on the road. Sun exposure, oxidation, elevation, and time all shift the color. So matching a repair means accounting for the vehicle in front of us, not just the number on the door jamb.

That's why the tinting guides are on the wall. That's why the scale matters. And that's why our team is PPG certified, working with the Envirobase waterborne system to get your finish right.

Get it wrong and you see it in every parking lot, that one panel that's just slightly off. Get it right and you can't tell anything ever happened.

We're going for the second one, every single time. 💪

📍 2701 Porter Mountain Rd., Lakeside, AZ 85929
📞 1.928.368.2288
🌐 www.heckscollision.com

Address

2701 Porter Mountain Road Unit 1
Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ
85929

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

Telephone

+19283682288

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