Do you drive a white van?
Light Goods Vehicles, often known as ‘white van man’, are involved in twice as many accidents as HGVs and has an MOT failure rate of 50%. Furthermore,...
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Our electricity will be out Tues 11 June 9am-2pm
Our electricity will be cut off Tuesday 11 June from 9am-2pm.
This obviously means we cannot operate ramps/lifts/power tools/lights/computers ...or t...
Our apprentices are being observed at work today
As part of the Motor Vehicle Technician qualification, apprentices have to be observed doing certain jobs in the workplace. Here's Bobby carrying out ...
4 Wheel alignment
4 wheel alignment prolongs the life of your tyres and reduces fuel consumption.
It does what it says, really - aligns all 4 wheels so that ty...
Good luck to everyone holding fetes this weekend!
We'd like to wish everyone a happy bank holiday weekend - and hope all the local fetes are successful. We often donate free MOTs as raffle prizes so y...
Thanks to Edulis for planting our metallic troughs
We think they are perfectly in keeping with our workshops. Do you? All we need now is a bit of sun…
Exams for our motor vehicle apprentices
It's exam time for lots of people at the moment - and our 3 apprentices are no exception. Good luck to them all - Bobby taking his 3rd and final year ...
We are now Trading Standards approved
A little bit more peace of mind for our customers:
Motor Codes (of which we are a member) is unique in its offering to the consumer: it is the only p...
Enjoy the bank holiday weekend
We're looking more like summer today. If you're going to the Bradfield May Fayre on Monday you might win a free MOT from us ...
Thanks to Margaret Baxter for reviewing us on Motor Codes this week
The review said:
Excellent customer service and workmanship. A pleasure to deal with, many thanks.
Lorries over 5 tonnes
Due to the increasing backlog at Newbury testing station, we are ceasing to take bookings on lorries over 5 tonnes with immediate effect. We will of c...
New website launched!
Hopefully regular visitors to our website will like the new look we have now. It's not just been updated for style, though....we have the following fe...
Potholes
Has this topic of conversation overtaken the weather as Britain's favourite?
Have a look at www.potholes.co.uk - they say:
With potholes estimated to...
Enjoy the Easter break everyone and thanks to all our excellent staff for working so well
March is always a busy month for us and this has been true to form. Many thanks to all our hard working and high performing staff - as always up for ...
Overall opinion on us is still at 100%!
The latest survey completed on us on the Motor Codes website says:
Car needed servicing and 2 new tyres. I was aware that brakes would need replacing...
Garage of the Year
Thanks to everyone who voted for us - we didn't make it to the finals, but had a good go!
Motor Codes carried out a surprise spot check on us yesterd...
New testable items in the MOT test – from March 20 2013
The UK is implementing Directive 2010/48/EU on 20 March.
This means there are new testable items included in the MOT test:...
Light and heavy commercial goods vehicles pass rates: good news and bad
This is from the latest 'Moving On', the VOSA publication for HGV and PSV drivers and operators:
'HGV and PSV pass rates continued their improving t...
Congratulations to Ben
Ben, our senior mechanic, celebrated the birth of Charlie on Wednesday this week. Charlie is a brother for Phoebe.
We send him and his family our con...