Shop Coachbuilder

Coachbuilder is the parts line from Ekstrom Design & Fabrication — billet suspension, steering and driveline hardware, CNC machined in the USA for Toyota trucks. Lift a truck and the geometry moves with it: driveline angles change, steering arms run out of travel, the rear end starts to hop. Coachbuilder machines the corrections. Shims, shackles, steering kits, carrier bearing drops and the hardware that makes a lift ride the way Toyota intended.

The Mission.

A catalog this technical lives or dies on one question — will this fit my truck? The old store never answered it. Fitment was buried inside long product titles, the menu mixed vehicles, part types and support pages on a single level, and the homepage opened straight into a product grid with no explanation of what the company actually does. We rebuilt Shop Coachbuilder from the theme up.

  • Rebuild the Foundation

    The store was running on an aging Venue-based theme. We moved it to Dawn, Shopify's Online Store 2.0 theme — faster, actively maintained, and editable by the client without a developer. Brand colors were pulled from the Ekstrom Design badge rather than the old palette, and the homepage moved to white so the parts, all black anodized aluminum, actually read on the page. The entire rebuild was staged on a draft theme and previewed for approval, so the live store never went down.

  • Organize Around the Truck

    We rebuilt the information architecture around how people actually shop for truck parts, with three ways in. By rig: five generation collections, from Tundra 1999–2006 to Tacoma 2024+ and 4Runner 2025+. By part: thirteen clean categories — shackles, shims, steering kits, bushings, bump stops, carrier bearing drops and the rest. By symptom, for the customer who knows what's wrong but not what to buy.

  • Answer the Fitment Question

    We engineered a shop-by-rig fitment experience directly into the theme instead of installing a paid app — no monthly fee, no third-party script slowing the store down, and full control over how it looks and behaves. A customer picks their model and year once. The site remembers it and confirms fitment on every page from then on.

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The Solution

  • A Homepage That Says What They Do

    The new hero leads with the promise, not the product: "Parts that fix what a lift kit breaks." Under it, a proof strip that answers the credibility questions in four numbers — 6061-T6 billet cut in-house, CNC machined in the USA, 1999–2026 model years, seven Toyota and Lexus platforms. Further down, a plain-language section on why lift kits break things, because a customer who understands the problem buys the correction.

  • Shop by Rig — Custom Built, Not Rented

    Collection pages gained a fitment filter, availability and price filters, intro copy for each generation, and an "other rigs" row for switching platforms in one click. Product cards carry badges you can read at a glance: how much lift a part actually provides, and whether it's TRD PRO compatible. Product pages lead with fitment, above the title where the doubt lives — and when a part doesn't fit the customer's truck, the page says so and links to what does.

  • Diagnose It — Selling the Fix, Not the SKU

    Most people arriving at this store don't search for a carrier bearing drop kit. They search for "my truck shudders since I lifted it." So we built a section that starts with the symptom and ends at the parts that solve it — driver-side lean, driveline vibration, tire rub, bed bounce, loose steering, and "I just want another half inch up front." Each one maps to a real collection. It's navigation and sales copy at the same time.

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Project Highlights

Fitment Confidence on Every Page

Set the truck once and the store carries it everywhere — filtered collections, confirmed product pages, and an honest answer with a route forward when a part doesn't fit. Reviews were consolidated onto a single platform at the same time, with the leftover code from two abandoned review apps stripped out.

Three Ways Into a Technical Catalog

Rig, part, or symptom — whichever way a customer thinks about the problem, there's a path to the right part. Even the 404 page pulls its weight: "That page isn't here," followed by the generation picker, so a dead link becomes a way back into the catalog instead of an exit.

Built on a Foundation That Stays Current

Moving to Online Store 2.0 gave Coachbuilder a theme that Shopify keeps updated, sections the team can edit themselves, and a faster storefront. Staging the whole rebuild on a draft theme meant nothing shipped that the client hadn't seen, and the live store kept selling throughout.

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Working with Shop Coachbuilder was an absolute pleasure. Check out their site at the button below and let us know what you think!

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