Turners Accident Repair Lands Inside a Six-Brand PE Group

Sun European Partners bought Turners Accident Repair on 11 November 2025, folding seven northern shops into a crash-repair platform it had started in July. Terms were not disclosed. Thomas Turner stays managing director, and the Selby name stays on the doors.

The buyer is an affiliate of the London private investment firm, acting through Precision Repair Group. Turners is the third operator in that stack, not the platform itself.

Who Owns Turners Accident Repair Now?

An affiliate of Sun European Partners owns the group. Day-to-day, Turners still runs as a family firm founded in 1969 and led by Stuart, Susan and Thomas Turner, the third generation at a business headquartered in Selby, North Yorkshire. The new parent is Precision Repair Group, which Sun began assembling with Alton Cars on 14 July 2025.

Alexander Wyndham, managing director at Sun European Partners, said the firm saw “significant opportunities to accelerate growth, expand the network, and strengthen relationships with key customers.” That line is about panels and geography. It is not about a single family recap.

Since 1995, Sun Capital has invested in more than 500 companies worldwide with revenues in excess of $50 billion. Collision repair sits on Sun European’s own list of fragmented services niches, alongside car washes and roofing, with a stated entry range of €2 million to €15 million of earnings. No price was published for Turners.

Six Brands Were Locked In Before the Launch

By the time Precision Repair Group went public on 12 January 2026, six operators were already in. Five of them, including Turners, formed the founding mainstream and prestige units. Diamond Spraying came in as the first commercial-fleet shop. Alton is the volume core: a Leeds-based 16-site collision repair provider founded in 1979, bought on 14 July 2025. Wyndham said at that close that the repair sector is “highly fragmented” and that Alton created “strong potential to grow the group capability through strategic acquisitions.” Neilson Jones, Alton’s managing director, stayed on.

Legal papers treated the next two northern and prestige deals as a pair. Mayer Brown, acting for Sun, announced the separate purchases of Turners and Hilton Coachworks in tandem on 11 November 2025, after the earlier Alton close. Hilton, founded in 1984 and based in Bishop’s Stortford, is the prestige arm: the UK’s largest independent manufacturer-approved repair centre, per that notice.

THE PRECISION REPAIR GROUP ROSTER

Alton carries the site count. Turners thickens Yorkshire and Durham on the same map. HB Accident Repair Network, led by chairman Tracy Howard, adds three North-West shops in Swinton, Warrington and Ellesmere Port, the last of those opened in March 2025. Fast Track, the Charles family’s Enfield centre, is listed by the group as the largest mainstream bodyshop in the UK at 37,000 sq ft, and it is the London door. Diamond Spraying in Wellingborough, founded by Paul Hakin in 2007, is the fleet specialist.

THE SUN DEAL CALENDAR

1. 14 July 2025: Sun’s affiliate completes the Alton Cars purchase, 16 sites, with Jones remaining as managing director.
2. October 2025: Hilton Coachworks in Bishop’s Stortford joins as the prestige unit.
3. 11 November 2025: Turners Accident Repair completes, seven northern sites, Thomas Turner still managing director.
4. November 2025: HB Accident Repair Network joins with three North-West sites and its existing leadership.
5. December 2025: Fast Track Accident Repair Centre in Enfield gives the group a London footprint.
6. Late 2025: Diamond Spraying joins as the first commercial-fleet brand.
7. 12 January 2026: Precision Repair Group launches in public as a national repair offering.
8. 21 March 2026: Victoria Turner and Sadie Alton go on the UK company board; Sun’s Alexander Wyndham and Nicolas Devriese step off.
9. 14 September 2026: The group launches Repair Anywhere, a mobile unit service for fleet and insurance partners.

Six months separate Alton’s close from the January launch. Local write-ups treated each shop as a standalone win. The calendar is one buy-and-build.

The Selby Shops Already Held Insurer Work

Gordons, which advised the selling shareholders with Translink Corporate Finance and BHP on tax, said the Selby group had become a preferred partner for a number of insurers. That is the asset a crash-repair fund pays for. Sites can be leased and paint booths can be copied. A place on a motor panel is slower to earn.

Precision Repair Group lists Turners with seven sites in Yorkshire and Durham, and says the brand keeps operational autonomy inside the group.

TURNERS ACCIDENT REPAIR LOCATIONS

• Selby: The Barlby headquarters, the original Yorkshire base.
• Leeds: Gildersome, on Gilhusum Road.
• Doncaster: Two units on Shaw Lane Industrial Estate, including a rapid centre.
• Sheffield: Vector 31 in Wales, the South Yorkshire shop.
• Ripon: Potter Space at Melmerby Green.
• Durham: Angel Park on the Drum Industrial Estate.

Thomas Turner thanked staff, customers and partners, then put the sale in the language every regional recap uses.

Joining forces with Sun marks an exciting new chapter for our business. Their strategic vision and future plans align closely with our own values, and we’re confident this partnership will accelerate our growth and strengthen our position in the market.

Thomas Turner, managing director, Turners Accident Repair

Duncan Firman, the Gordons partner on the sell side, said Sun’s money “provides the group with the platform for further expansion as part of its next phase of growth.” Expansion, in this sector, means more shops that can take the same insurer files Turners already writes.

Why Crash Repair Fits a Buy-and-Build Fund?

Work arrives every time someone crashes a car, and a handful of motor insurers steer most of it. Shops that sit on those panels get volume; shops that do not wait on private jobs and overflow. A fund that strings enough approved sites together can talk to an insurer as one network rather than as seven family names with seven credit controllers.

Sun’s own pitch is the standard services play: management-owned firms in fragmented, recession-resilient trades, then bolt-ons. Crash repair matches that sheet. The work is local, the approvals are national, and a 16-site group plus a seven-site neighbour in the same counties can share paint, parts and training without moving a single ramp south.

Corporate-finance notes circulating in the trade through late 2025 described the typical target as a three-to-20-site operator with a few million pounds of earnings and insurer contracts already in the door. Turners sits in that band. So does HB. Fast Track is the other shape the same thesis likes: one huge shed, high throughput, a city the northern map did not cover.

The people who feel that thesis first are the owners still outside the group. A regional shop that wants a panel place now competes with a 29-site roster that can already quote Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham and Enfield in one conversation. Some will sell on the same terms Turners did. Some will stay independent and live on the work the networks do not want.

Victoria Turner Keeps the Family Names on the Doors

Victoria Turner is group chief executive of Precision Repair Group. She is not one of the Selby Turners. She came in as a hired operator, a qualified accountant with more than 20 years in automotive, insurance and claims, previously chief commercial officer at Activate Group and managing director at National Accident Repair Group. Sadie Alton, group chief financial officer, brought a PE-backed finance brief of more than 30 years.

The UK company behind the brand was incorporated as CR Bidco, then renamed from CR Bidco Limited to Precision Repair Group Ltd on 24 March 2026, company number 16532277. Three days earlier, on 21 March, Victoria Turner and Sadie Alton were appointed directors. Alexander Wyndham and Nicolas Devriese, the Sun names on the board, were removed the same day. The fund still owns the vehicle. The operating bosses now sign the filings.

At launch Turner said the group would protect what made each business special while building capability across it. The public line is “partnering independence”: keep the local MD, keep the fascia, push procurement, systems and insurer talks up to the centre. Alton, Turners, HB, Fast Track, Hilton and Diamond still trade under their own names. That is useful with staff and with the work providers who booked those names for years. It is also useful in a sale process, because each brand can still be described as a specialist rather than as a numbered depot.

Paul Hakin, joining with Diamond, said he wanted a commercial offer built around vehicle off-road time, price and service, and that the rest of the group would let him support customers nationwide. Fleet work is the logical third leg once mainstream and prestige bays are in. A van on the ramps in Wellingborough can be backed by a car shop in Leeds if the same account asks.

Repair Anywhere Puts Bays on the Forecourt

On 14 September 2026 the group put that logic on wheels. Repair Anywhere is a mobile service for fleet and insurance partners: self-contained units that the company says meet HSE and BSI rules, with manufacturer-standard colour matching, heated paint storage and a dust-free, temperature-controlled workspace. Most jobs, it says, finish in a working day. Anything heavier routes into the nearest group brand, which is how a Selby or Enfield bay still earns from a job that starts on a depot forecourt.

Turner said the product “gives existing partners a new route to manage claims, without changing how they work with us.” The partners in that sentence are the same insurers and fleets the November 2025 Turners sale was meant to deepen. A mobile capsule does not replace a 37,000 sq ft Enfield shed. It lets the group take the small cosmetic jobs that clog a booked-out shop, and it lets a commercial account keep a tractor unit on site.

The group also built a mobile HGV trailer capsule for larger fleet kit. Early adopter fleets are already using the service, according to the launch. No extra shop purchase was required for that step, which is the point of owning 29 locations and then adding vans: the northern density Sun paid for in Selby, Doncaster and Durham is now a catch-net behind a product that can start the job somewhere else.

Thomas Turner’s “new chapter” still reads true on the shop floor in Barlby. The chapter the fund bought is the one in which those seven doors, and the insurer files behind them, sit inside a national roster that can quote mainstream, prestige and commercial work from Harrogate to Enfield, then send a van if the bay is full.