Garage news

RMIF's Kitemark bodyshop members get press promise

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Aftermarket gets own Block Exemption

Dunkley’s chases 20% growth after Kitemark win

Unichip remaps Nissan coupe with plug and play device