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Long wait times for car repairs become the ‘new normal’ amid calls for more auto workers

When Nathan Woodrow’s car was damaged in an accident last August, he didn’t think it would take close to a year to have it fully back to normal. “The whole front needed repairing,” he said. While the bulk of the work was finished by January, an issue with the headlights and bonnet paint caused a delay. “In that time I moved to Toowoomba [from Brisbane],” Mr Woodrow said. “I went back and forward with the insurer … and in April they contacted me again and I was finally able to get it booked in for mid-August,” he said. Mr Woodrow…