Auto Service News

We always want to do every job in the garage in the quickest possible time, the quicker we do it the faster we get paid and everyone is happy. we do however try to give priority to the small business owners out there, where every hour their car is off the road the more they lose money.
Problems arrise when certain businesses leave things until the last minute and expect us to fit them in with little notice. We can often handle this, except when 2 businesses want their cars done on the same day without any notice.

Owning a driving instructor school can be lucrative in this current climate or redundancies and lay offs, but it would be nice to get warning over the maintenance of their lease cars. This business offers driving instructor training middlesbrough and has a fleet over over 20 cars. we have a great relationship, but trying to fit in their schedule to ours is a nightmare sometimes.

These driving instructor training course seem to be everywhere on TV at the moment with fully maintained cars (that you have to pay for and are leased), but if it works for some, good luck to them, just make sure if you want your car serviced you give us plenty of notice, in-fact why not stick it in your planner now and let us know the date. We can take it on from there.

Sometimes we get a phone call that attempts to get us to service 20 cars in one day (dream on), even much larger businesses would not attempt that, not to mention there is often parts to order and invoices to be discussed over the phone before work can continue.

Yes I hve been poorly, something my wife calla “Man Flu” and yes I have been away fromt the garage. I have come back and of course we are no further on with our salvage projects, everyone is in a bad mood because the garage it starting to get cold and we have not brought the big heater blowers in yet.

I hate this time of year with the dark nights and really do hate bonfire nights etc. It gets too cold and we need to work wioth the lights on, raher than sunlight. It is one of the downsides of working on cars, is the enviroment you are working in. On saying this, it isn’t half as bad as what our riadside recovery guys have to di, especially if they answer a call hrough the night. Lying under a car on the side of a duel carriageway at midnight is not the my idea of a good job, which is why I employ others to do it.

It will not be long before cars will not start and those without breakdown insurance will be ringing us up to help. It is a good job too, becuase there is good money to be made with 24 hours recovery service, i often wonder why many do not buy national breakdown cover, currently the Green Flag are doing this for a mere £20, less the Friday night’s beer.

No thta is not why I was ill. now it is time to get back to work.