Author Archives: Colin Thatcher

Joining the fleet on the 3rd April is my son Aaron Thatcher who brings over 20 years of experience in the motor trade. His addition extends our services throughout the Eastleigh area. So if you need you car looked at, please call Aaron on 07833 471498 or myself on 07860 589836.

Lucky with the weather today ( forecast rain). Carrying out MOT repairs today. Both front suspension arms( old ones had badly worn rear mounting bushes) & a rear shock absorber ( old one was leaking fluid), so not efficient.

In Chandler’s Ford today & much better weather. Here to service & MOT a Fiesta. No problems with either jobs, all went too plan.

In Andover this morning to do some rear suspension work & it was raining during the first part of the job. All successfully done.

This morning’s scenario is a woman with 2 small children who works at a school. So to get an MOT done on her car would involve loading the kids in the car early, take the car to the garage & either getting a lift to school & repeating the sequence in reverse later that day.Continue reading “Working around what matters to you…”

Anyway another busy week with Monday a service/ MOT on a 1990 vauxhall calibra, all passed &in the end was no problems, on to replace a battery on a Corsa, Tuesday & a Saab bonnet cable followed with what proved to be an ongoing missfire, Wednesday another service/MOT on a 207 Peugeot & again theContinue reading “A busy week…”

Another week of work completed. Monday I was down in Ashurst for a regular customer who had some electrical related problems. Tuesday 2 full services with extras on each. Wednesday an MOT & later started to replace a part on a customers car, only to find out they had the wrong part. Thursday a fullContinue reading “Where’s the battery?”