Colin Thatcher Mobile Mechanic and Sons
Your trusted local mechanics that comes to you
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.
Exciting times ahead. Finishing off the week servicing the latest addition to my fleet of vans for the new guy to use.
In Chandler’s Ford today & much better weather. Here to service & MOT a Fiesta. No problems with either jobs, all went too plan.
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.
My solution is leave the keys in a safe place, while they have arranged an alternative way direct to school. I collect the car, check it over & take for an MOT test. Hopefully it passes the test. I return the car back to the customer.
For my time taken, this could be a total of 2.5 hours, but this is not reflected in my labour rate, as my normal charge would be £36 + the price of the MOT. So less hassle for the customer while they carry on their day
Snow today & customer thought I wouldn’t be coming, but as photos show a busy day.
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 the missfire car, Thursday an MOT on a Focus , washing a Honda & 3rd attempt, but this time with a little perseverance I cured it, this being a 2003 Focus,
Friday a car wash on a very dirty Fiesta, then onto a non start, which proved to be uneconomical to repair & then a Freelander with a loose turbo hose, which a garage didn’t have the time to repair it, but I had it done before the customer was back out with a cup of coffee.
So all in all a satisfying week of work.
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 full service/MOT, followed what should a simple battery change, but due to location of battery & finding I had been supplied the wrong part, then there was the standing around waiting for the right part & then I had to work out how to get into the vehicle, which is not able to start. ( See photo). All in all a long day. Today another full service. Time to recharge myself over the weekend for a busy week ahead.
Another fabulous service from Colin Thatcher highly recommend friendly & very competitive prices really nice having someone that’s honest & takes pride with customers vehicle’s.
***** service
genuine quality workmanship thank you so much Colin for sorting the Peugeot brakes and pads and for the other bits you put right for the M.O.T today.
I would recommend Colin 100% for service ,repairs, car valeting, reasonable prices every time nice to have the trust ,quality workmanship not many left out there in the world of greed.
Thanks Colin.
Chris Winchester
Colin Thatcher Mobile Mechanic and Sons