3426 N 15th St, Tampa, FL 33605
Mon–Thu 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Leave A ReviewFamily-owned since 1926 · serving Wimauma
If you need an auto body shop in Wimauma, you already know nothing out here is close. Dixie Paint & Body Shop is a family-owned Tampa shop, open since 1926, and we fix the dents, cracked bumpers, scratches and collision damage that SR 674 hands out.
The drive is real. So is the work at the end of it.
From Wimauma to our door
Take SR 674 west to I-75, head north into Tampa, then up 15th Street just north of Ybor City.
SR 674 through Wimauma is two lanes, no shoulder to speak of, and a steady line of people trying to pass a slow truck. Head-on scrapes, sideswipes and run-off-the-road damage show up at our shop more often from this corridor than from most suburbs.
We take the car apart far enough to see what the hit actually did, then repair it through our collision repair process, not just the parts you can see from the driveway.
Harvest season puts produce trucks, flatbeds and nursery trailers on every road between Wimauma and Balm. Following one too close means rocks, mud clods and the occasional fallen pallet slat into your front bumper.
Cracked and gouged bumper covers can often be repaired and refinished. If the tabs are snapped or the plastic is torn through, we replace it and paint it to match.
CR 579 runs narrow with ditches on both sides. Meet a wide load and you pull over until the passenger side catches palmetto, a fence post or a mailbox. Long scratches down two doors are the usual result.
Shallow scratches can be sanded and polished out. Deeper ones need primer, color and clear. We tell you which one you have before any work starts.
Out here a lot of trucks and cars live outside, no garage, no carport, full sun from sunrise on. Clear coat lets go on the roof and hood first. Red and black fade fastest.
Our booth refinishes single panels or the whole vehicle. Take a look at our paint and refinishing work to see what a fresh coat looks like on a sun-baked truck.
The new neighborhoods going up on the edge of the fields brought tight driveways, shared parking and kids learning to ride bikes past your car. Door dings and fender dents follow.
We work small dents out and refinish only the panel that needs it. Your car does not need a full repaint over a dent the size of a quarter.
Little Manatee River State Park sits right on the Wimauma side of the line, and the sandy roads and low branches around the river leave their mark. Scraped rockers, cracked lower valances, pinstripe scratches from palmetto.
It is cosmetic most of the time. We still put the car on the lift and check underneath before we quote, because sand and a hard bump can hide a bent bracket.
You get a written estimate, line by line, before any repair starts. We work with every insurance company and deal with the adjuster directly, and you choose the shop, not the carrier.
If you already have a quote from another auto body shop in Wimauma or out on US 301, bring it. Our overhead is low and we will try to beat it.
Growers and contractors around Wimauma run trucks hard, and a dented fleet truck still has to look like it belongs to a business. We handle multiple vehicles and can stagger them so you are not down every truck at once.
Our commercial fleet repair for Sun City Center and the south county page has more on how that works.
Three generations of the Traina family have run Dixie. Angelo Traina Jr. still checks every finished car himself: panel gaps, paint texture, lights, doors. A chain store found by typing auto body shop near me will not put the owner on your car.
Our ASE certified technicians do the repair. The owner signs off on it. That is the order every time.
Wimauma sits in a ring of small towns that all make the same drive north. Neighbors down in Sun City Center can read about collision repair in Sun City Center, and drivers closer to the bay can check paint damage repair in Ruskin. If you have family up north, we also see plenty of cars from our Lutz customers.
The shop is at 3426 N 15th Street in Tampa, just north of Ybor City. From Wimauma it is SR 674 west to I-75, then north into Tampa. Plan on 40 minutes or so, more at rush hour.
Options are thin out here, and Dixie has been family-owned since 1926 with the owner inspecting every finished car. Plenty of Wimauma customers decide one longer drive is worth a repair done right.
Yes. Small chips can be touched up and sealed. Wider damage on the hood or bumper is sanded, primed and refinished so it matches the rest of the car.
We work on all makes and models, foreign and domestic, from new pickups to older farm trucks.
Estimates are by appointment, but you can stop in. If you are already in Tampa for the day, bring the car by and we will look at it.
Bring the written quote with you. Our overhead is low, and we will try to beat it without cutting corners on the repair.
Small dent and bumper jobs often take a few days. Structural collision work takes longer. We give you a time frame with the estimate so you can plan rides back to Wimauma.
Monday to Thursday, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Call (813) 248-3156 or (813) 476-0312.
Fill out the form, call, or come by. Wimauma drivers who searched collision repair near me and found a family shop instead keep making the drive, and that tells us something. If an auto body shop in Wimauma is what you were after, we are the one worth the trip.
Read about how we handle accident repairs, see our full vehicle repaints, or check the page for Thonotosassa auto body work if you have a second car out east. Any auto body shop in Wimauma comparison should include a call to us.