Auto Repair Shop Parking Lot Striping in Keizer, Oregon: 2026 Service Guide

Striping an Auto Repair Shop in Keizer

A repair shop lot is one of the hardest small commercial sites to lay out well, because the same pavement has to do four jobs in a tight footprint. Customers need to find the door. Their cars need somewhere to wait before and after service. The bay approaches need clear pull-in room so a vehicle can line up to the door without a dozen corrections. And tow trucks need a place to drop a disabled vehicle without blocking everything else. On a busy day, all four happen at once, and bad striping turns the whole lot into a guessing game.

Cojo Excavation & Asphalt stripes service and repair properties throughout Marion County. Keizer shops along River Road and the Cherry Avenue corridor tend to operate on compact lots where every square foot is spoken for, so the layout has to be deliberate. The recurring failure we re-stripe is shops where customer parking, waiting vehicles, and bay approaches all blur together — which means a customer ends up parked in the path a tech needs to pull a car into the bay.

What This Business Type Actually Needs

Repair-shop striping is about separating four kinds of traffic on a small site. The priorities we plan around for a Keizer shop:

• Bay-approach pull-in stalls — Clear striped approaches so a vehicle can line up to the bay door cleanly, which keeps the work moving and protects the building corners.
• Customer vs employee vs vehicle-waiting separation — Three groups, three zones. Customers park near the office, employees park out of the way, and vehicles awaiting or finished with service get their own marked rows.
• ADA service-counter route — A compliant accessible space with a striped, unobstructed path to the service counter or waiting room.
• Tow-drop staging — A designated spot for tow trucks to leave a disabled vehicle without blocking bays or customer parking.
• Hazmat-cabinet keep-clear paint — Keep-clear hatching around fluid storage, used-oil tanks, and hazmat cabinets so they stay accessible and uncluttered.

DEQ vehicle-fluid containment requirements also touch the lot: drains, containment areas, and the zones where fluids are handled benefit from clear keep-clear striping so nothing gets parked over a containment point.

Keizer Conditions That Affect the Work

Keizer's striping window runs late spring through early fall, matching the Willamette Valley pattern. Repair shops are easier to phase than retail because the work happens inside the bays — we can stripe the customer area and waiting rows in stages around your service hours, often handling a compact lot in a single off-peak day or split across a slow afternoon and the following morning.

The River Road and Cherry Avenue corridors keep local traffic steady, so a shop's customer parking turns over constantly. Repair lots also accumulate more oil and fluid staining than almost any other commercial site, concentrated at the bay approaches and waiting rows. That staining is the number-one reason new paint fails to bond on a repair lot, and it almost always needs cleaning or spot treatment before striping. A site walk is how we catch how bad it is before quoting.

What Striping a Repair Shop Typically Involves

Restriping refreshes existing customer stalls, waiting rows, bay approaches, and keep-clear zones on the current layout. New layout work — measuring and planning from scratch — is worth it on shops that have outgrown a layout that was never really designed, because a deliberate plan usually fits more usable parking and waiting space into the same lot.

Our parking lot striping cost in Oregon guide breaks down the baselines. Repair shops use per-space pricing for customer, employee, and waiting parking, and linear-foot pricing for bay-approach lines, keep-clear hatching, and any directional arrows.

Paint selection follows the wear. Bay approaches take constant tire scrub and benefit from durable traffic paint. Customer and employee rows can run standard latex. Keep-clear and hazmat zones often use high-visibility colors. We sort out where each belongs during the walk-through.

Hidden Conditions on Repair Lots

A few things reliably surface once striping starts on an older Keizer repair shop:

• Heavy oil and fluid saturation — Repair lots collect more fluid staining than any other commercial site, and saturated asphalt rejects paint without cleaning or priming.
• Worn bay-approach lines — Constant tire scrub at the bay doors fades approach markings unevenly, hiding how worn they really are.
• Cracking under waiting rows — Vehicles sitting for days at a time, plus tow-truck drops, stress the pavement where cars wait.
• ADA counter route below standard — Older accessible spaces and paths to the service counter may not meet current requirements.

A site assessment catches these before they cause a callback. We measure and walk every repair lot rather than quoting from an image.

Why Keizer Repair Shops Work With Cojo

We stripe repair lots to keep four kinds of traffic from colliding on a small site: clean bay approaches, separated customer and waiting zones, a real tow-drop spot, and keep-clear striping around the fluid-handling areas DEQ cares about. We work around your service hours, treat the fluid staining that wrecks ordinary striping jobs, and flag pavement problems instead of painting over them.

If your shop shares a corridor with auto-retail, our car dealership parking lot striping in Keizer guide covers the service-drive side of those operations. For the full range of professional striping services across Marion County, or to see completed lots, view our work.