Someone drives there and stands in it
We look at the ramps, the tester, the booth and the bench, and we write the entry from that. It caps us at about nine new entries a month, which is why there are 612 workshops here and not six thousand.
Independent workshop directory · walked, not submitted · since 2011
The workshop,
not the website.
Six hundred and twelve independent garages, testing stations, body shops, auto-electricians and restorers, listed by the equipment actually bolted to the floor and the work they will honestly take on. Somebody from here has stood in every one of them.
- 612 workshops walked
- No banners, no paid order
- Re-walked every 30 months
The directory
Most recently walked
Nothing matches that search. to see everything.
How entries are written
Nobody is listed from a form
We take entries down while we ring round
Three unresolved complaints in a rolling year and the listing comes off until we have spoken to everybody. Two of last year's removals were garages we personally liked, and neither was paying us a penny to be there in the first place.
No parts factors, no warranty underwriters
The obvious money here is banner space sold to suppliers, and the price of it is quietly not recording which workshops refuse warranty work because of what the underwriters pay. We would rather record it.
Sometimes the franchise is the right answer
Security codes, a live recall, a subframe only the manufacturer will supply. About one enquiry in twelve we answer by telling somebody to use a main dealer and not a single garage on this list.
“The lease company wanted the camera behind the screen recalibrated after a stone chip and quoted eleven working days. I filtered for calibration within an hour of the yard, rang the second entry down, and the van was back out the following afternoon at about a third of the money.”
4.7 from 1140 reviews
Get listed, or tell us we have it wrong
One office and two very high-mileage cars
Unit 6, Bourne Trading Estate
Kettering, Northamptonshire NN16 8PL
- Mon – Fri
- 8:00 – 17:30
- Corrections
- Same day, always free
- New entries
- We visit within six weeks
Kettering · independent since 2011
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