Micheldever Tyre and Auto Services has signed up to the Motor Industry Code of Practice for Service and Repair. The company, which sells some 6 million tyres a year via a national customer base of 4500 retailers, has subscribed its 50 Protyre-branded outlets to the Code [...]
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Great British Bearmach takes on Jaguar parts
Caerphilly-based Land Rover parts specialist Bearmach has been appointed as an authorised European distributor for Jaguar parts. The news comes a month after the Jaguar marque celebrated its 75th anniversary with a return to Le Mans [...]
Unipart in Mobil1 oil supply deal
Unipart in Mobil1 oil supply agreement
Ride pimping is value spoiler
Vehicle pimping may be value spoiler, warns auction house
MP calls for national adpotion of Kitemark
A Conservative MP is calling for the BSI Kitemark scheme to be made standard for UK garages. Robert Halfon, MP for Harlow, tabled a Motion in Parliament after making a radio appearance alongside Kitemark champion Quentin Wilson [...]
MOT TEST'S NEW 4-2-2 THREAT
Just one year after the trade convinced the previous government to scrap proposals to reduce the MOT test frequency from once a year to every two years, the threat of a 4-2-2 regime has once more reared its ugly head [...]
UK Right to Repair Campaign disbands
The UK Right to Repair CampaIgn Strategy Group has disbanded. Jim Mazza, the Campaign's chairman, said: “The Campaign united the entire independent aftermarket, which added huge weight to our arguments as we were able to speak on behalf of the whole industry [...]
ECP opens new national mega depot
Euro Car Parts has opened a new 400,000 sqft national distribution centre in Tamworth – investing £15 million in new stock in the process. “This is the largest single investment ECP has ever made,†said owner Sukhpal Singh [...]
Service & repair demand to fall 25% by 2015
The number of garages operating in the UK has plummeted by a third in the last 10 years, and the trend is set to continue. Confirming the suspicions of many in the aftermarket, the Trend Tracker report, based on a survey of 17,000 motorists, charts the falling demand for car servicing and repair [...]
IAM gets own BER but garages not out of woods yet
The independent aftermarket is celebrating after the European Commission adopted a new sector-specific Block Exemption Regulation last month. Industry commentators welcomed the new rules. However, they warned that the fight for full access to technical information is not yet over [...]