Tag Archives: Servicing

Franchised dealers have arrested the decline in servicing work being carried out in workshops. The latest results from the Castrol Professional Car Servicing...

A website has been launched which helps consumers choose the garage they want to service their car locally. Motoriety also keeps a digital record of all car documents, including MoT and service history...

Owners of ageing Lexus and Porsche models are more likely to use a franchised workshop for servicing than an independent, according to research by Warranty Direct.

Ex-Tesco Cars managing director Douglas Rotberg is now heading up TootCompare, a comparison site for car servicing and MOTs...

Franchised dealers are missing out on £1.5bn worth of revenue annually by failing to sell service and parts for items identified by vehicle health checks, according to a new survey.

A full service history will add 26 per cent to the value of a car, according to research commissioned by Kwik Fit. With the average used car selling for £5,500...

Consumers continue to cut back on servicing as the cost of motoring rockets in the UK. That’s the result of a survey for Manheim Auctions of 3,000 motorists carried out by One Poll...

Warranty Direct, the mechanical breakdown insurance provider, claims motorists will pay a total of £177m to fix in-car air conditioning systems this year.

One in eight British drivers – equivalent to 4.1 million motorists – fail to regularly service their car.

Garages that are members of the recently launched Kitemark scheme are successfully capturing work from the franchised dealer sector.   Independents are seeing more warranty work According to the British Standards Institute – which launched the initiative last year – licensees of the Kitemark claim the programme has helped them attract new servicing business. BSI claims the scheme has helped ...