Auto Care Association
The Auto Care Association is the voice of the $380 billion plus auto care industry. We provide advocacy, educational, networking, technology, market intelligence and communications resources to serve the collective interests of our members. Auto Care Association serves the entire supply chain of the automotive aftermarket: businesses that manufacture, distribute and sell motor vehicle parts, accessories, tools, equipment, materials and supplies, and perform vehicle service, maintenance and repair.
The Auto Care Association is the voice for the auto care industry—a coast-to-coast network of 500,000 independent manufacturers, distributors, parts stores and repair shops offering quality, choice and innovation for drivers.
The Auto Care Association keeps its members ahead of the curve so they can continue to serve every kind of vehicle on the road today—providing parts and services designed to make vehicles last longer, perform better and keep drivers safer.
The Auto Care Association serves members in a variety of important ways, each designed to help them maintain their position as innovative and impactful businesses. Our government affairs department represents the industry’s complex set of interests before federal and state legislators and regulators, and advocates for policies that are favorable to our member businesses. We provide access to the most widely-used standards in North America and best practices in e-commerce and technology to help lower costs and increase efficiency. We develop our members’ professional skills with a full calendar of education, meetings and events plus tools and resources for their careers.
Our market intelligence and data innovation experts assess trends that are reshaping the industry, and our international program assists members seeking opportunities in the lucrative global market. The association’s award-winning communications keep members informed about critical auto care issues, association programs and initiatives, while sharing the magnitude of the aftermarket to key audiences, elevating the profile and influence of the industry. Any automotive aftermarket company throughout the supply chain can benefit from what we do.
We are educating the industry on emerging transportation technologies.
The Auto Care Association is working to identify these challenges and turn them into opportunities for the aftermarket as well as working to ensure that the aftermarket is included in the evolving transportation ecosystem and that there is a level playing field for all.
Learn about vehicle technology progression, what the latest technological developments mean and what we’re doing about it today, including:
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)
Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs);
Vehicle Communications (V2X);
Automotive Embedded Systems; and
Secure Vehicle Interface (SVI).
Explore a variety of industry specific groups and volunteering opportunities.
Auto Care Association communities and committees are where the foremost leaders in auto care industry businesses connect to face their most important challenges head-on and harness their greatest opportunities. A unique collaborative opportunity among competitive verticals, the groups enable participants to fuel transformation in order to accelerate their businesses from the local to the global level. Deep industry and cross-functional expertise is present to challenge the status quo and spark change through targeted committees and project workgroups.
International Business Development Opportunities
Our business is becoming more borderless every day—a rapidly-growing segment of the global economy. The Auto Care Association works to support trade policies and regulations that help the industry succeed in the global market place and break down trade barriers in emerging markets.
Advocating for the industry
Our Government Affairs team represents the industry’s complex set of interests before federal and state legislators and regulators, and advocates for policies that are favorable to our member businesses.
National Right to Repair
We advocate for consumer access to and control of vehicle repair and maintenance data. We represent the interests of all drivers, individual car owners and the independent aftermarket industry that serve them. We’re fighting to secure choice and put car data back where it belongs – in the hands of car owners.
Advocacy is essential, and by adding your voice, our impact adds up. This report details our 2021 efforts across all three facets of advocacy: grassroots, lobbying and PAC. However, in order to be effective, we must have your support and engagement. The 2021 Advocacy Report details ways you can get involved – and we made it as easy as 1, 2, 3.
Membership
Our mission is to protect and advance the interests of businesses providing aftermarket products and services for all classes of motor vehicles.
Your businesses are essential to keep the global supply chain running. Auto Care Association is essential to help your business navigate the evolving landscape.
The foundation of the Association is our membership which is represented not only in the U.S., but across the globe: Members from six continents and 164 countries represent this $2 trillion global industry.
Contact Auto Care Association:
7101 Wisconsin Ave, Suite 1300
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 654-6664
