Auto Service News

It is not advisable to use certain type of used car parts, but for such things such as engines, gearboxeass, lights and other large items buying used can not only save you money but give you a longer lifespan. The after parts market (new car part copies) do deliver cheap car parts, but often these are not amde to anywhere near the quality than the orginal parts were.

So here we are needing to fix someones car and we have to quote for the parts first. Well often we used car pare locator services like carsparefinder, which will give quotes from several breaker yards up and down the country. the bad news is, we have to wait for delivery and often wait for the customer to make thoer minds up, only ot find the one and only BMW engine was sold 3 hours earlier because teh customer just would not believe how lucky we were to find that engine.

Of course we have to guarantee the work we do, so fitting good quality parts is key ot our success this is something the customer often does not appreciate. They have the view, if it goes wrong it is our fault.
So we often make the decision and if the customer does not go with our suggestions, we decline to repair the car and encourage them to pick it up and go elsewhere. It does happen not and again.

Oh how I hate this time of year even though as far as the business is concerned it is normally the busiest and most profitable. The dark night have come in, drivers still drive as if the sun is shining not wanting to take that extra 5 minutes to from get home from work and so the result is phone calls from the police to collect cars that have been involved in a smash of which we get paid (eventually) from the insurance company or the cars owner if they are only third party.

Our breakdown cover operation has to be stepped up from the lull since the end of holiday season, but now it is about working in the dark and often the rain. Once again (it happens every year) drivers would prefer to take their chances when it comes to the reliability of their cars and so we will benefit from the breakdown cover call outs and subscequent repairs. We are reletivly competitive when it comes to prices, but don’t think we can beat the £20 that a certain breakdown cover organistion is offering roadside assistance at the moment, we charge more than that just to visit the car.

Winter services also pick up from the sensible crew who want their cars to get them through the winter, so all in all good business, but the weather stinks. Whish I was that guy from the “Garage” who has a TV series out in sunny Spain somewhere. Ok he has the Spanish to deal with, but at lease there is more sun than rain.