National Press Release

New CollisionLink Companion Product - Collision Reporting - Helps Wholesalers Sell More OE Parts and Improve Competitiveness.

RICHFIELD, Ohio, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- OEConnection LLC today announced the launch of a new version of its CollisionLink product for wholesale auto dealerships filling crash parts orders. Additionally, a new Collision Reporting product is now available to help dealerships analyze salesperson and customer performance and to identify business opportunities to sell more OE collision parts.

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Chuck Rotuno, OEConnection President & CEO, said, "We're excited by these two developments -- the next generation of CollisionLink and the new Collision Reporting product. CollisionLink 5.0 and Collision Reporting demonstrate OEConnection's commitment to providing state-of-the-art solutions to our customers. OEConnection continuously invests in our products to increase customer satisfaction, with the ultimate goal of driving dealership parts department profitability."

CollisionLink 5.0 was built with the active involvement of current users to make the product faster than ever, easier to use, more intuitive for new users, and to enable dealerships to grow their OE collision parts sales. CollisionLink is the first in the suite of OEConnection's portfolio of Internet-based tools to be re-architected to take advantage of OEConnection's new e-commerce platform.

"On-line parts ordering through CollisionLink is quickly becoming an industry standard," said Mark Tomasetti, OEConnection Vice President & General Manager, Collision and Mechanical Solutions. "This creates great opportunities for us to deliver new tools for parts professionals to improve their business. Collision Reporting is just such a tool, providing parts managers an unprecedented view of the collision parts market, their shop customers and lost sales opportunities they can pursue."

"Our dealership is now filling over 65% of our parts orders online using CollisionLink technology," said Dan Hutton, Parts Manager at Tom O'Brien Chrysler Jeep in Greenwood, Indiana. "We're processing over a half million dollars in wholesale business each month with just 3 people -- it used to take 5 or 6 people to do that same volume. We worked closely with OEConnection to define the new CollisionLink 5.0 and we're very excited about the benefits it will bring us in the future and how it will help our dealership do more business with fewer resources in 2009."

CollisionLink 5.0 and Collision Reporting improve a wholesaler's processes while a dealership transitions their collision shop customers from manual to online parts ordering. These solutions help both dealers and shops eliminate parts returns which can mean hours of saved administrative time each week for both parties. Parts departments can receive orders 24/7, improve CSI through a streamlined order fulfillment process, and process parts orders faster and more accurately using CollisionLink's automatic part validation and instant VIN-based error-checking.

CollisionLink 5.0 will be rolled out to new and existing customers in spring 2009. Collision Reporting is available immediately to all CollisionLink subscribers. OEConnection will unveil the new CollisionLink 5.0 software and Collision Reporting in New Orleans at the National Auto Dealers Association (NADA), annual convention, January 24-27, 2009 in exhibit booth #2241.

About OEConnection LLC: OEConnection is the leading Online Parts and Service Exchange (OPSX) in the automotive industry, serving over 17,000 dealerships, collision repair shops, fleets, tire distributors and automakers. Customers use OEConnection products nearly 5 million times each month to market, manage and purchase original equipment parts, facilitating an estimated $12 billion in annual replacement parts trade. Headquartered in the greater Cleveland area, OEConnection is a joint venture created by Chrysler, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Snap-on Business Solutions. For more information contact Kyle McChesney, OEConnection LLC, (888) 776-5792, x1847 Kyle.McChesney@OEConnection.com.

SOURCE OEConnection LLC