trustworthy/friendly garage near fareham/southampton?

[shivars]

Hi,

I'm looking for a local garage who could help out with anything minor that comes up on my 2.5 - things that it isn't really worth a day off and a 150 mile round trip to the dealer for.

...and who would also be able to work on a kit car or other cheap race car (Porsche 924 or production BMW kind of money), yes I've caught the bug

Can anyone recommend a decent garage near Fareham or Southampton for this kind of thing?

Any help appreciated

thanks

Shane

[mgbond]

shivars said:

Hi,

I'm looking for a local garage who could help out with anything minor that comes up on my 2.5 - things that it isn't really worth a day off and a 150 mile round trip to the dealer for.

...and who would also be able to work on a kit car or other cheap race car (Porsche 924 or production BMW kind of money), yes I've caught the bug

Can anyone recommend a decent garage near Fareham or Southampton for this kind of thing?

Any help appreciated

thanks

Shane

What about Plans (guildford way).

I also have spoken to reworx (Rx7 guys) about servicing. They will do any high performance rear wheel car.

And Lakside engineering are another one I'm going to try.

Bondy

[shivars]

Hey Bondy, hope you're well

Plans look good - also for driver training - but they're a fair way. Reworx sound good - did they seem ok when you spoke to them?

S

[mgbond]

shivars said:

Hey Bondy, hope you're well

Plans look good - also for driver training - but they're a fair way. Reworx sound good - did they seem ok when you spoke to them?

S

Yes mate, I sent them some details about whats required in a service but they have yet to get back to me. Hope the long list didn't put them off?

I plan to pop in and have a chat again.

At the moment I think they will be fine for remdial work (they cleaned my injectors recently).

For my next service I maybe going to the guy in wales for the day.

Bondy

[Noblescort]

My car was serviced by Plans by the previous owner and although I have no personal experience they did miss some fairly basic stuff (worn ball joints, untightened jubilee clips etc). I haven't used him yet but Ray West Tuning in Andover will be where I'll be going for my servicing/repair work.

Ray raced and prepared a fantastic Opel Manta a few years ago - he'd done all the things you'd have done yourself and the car was immaculate. He also prepares an Opel Ascona for a guy in the Group 1 Touring car championship to the same standards.

Ray is a recognised Noble service agent.

HTH

If you're near Southampton, we should get together (you, me and Bondy) for a run someday when the weather's good.

[AMG Merc]

Have never had major work done by Plans but have to give them credit for correctly diagnosing a longstanding fault in 5 minutes that another was unable to in 3 visits over 18 months. The difference with Plans is they set up race cars so are maybe better for suspension and running stuff.

[mgbond]

AMG Merc said:

Have never had major work done by Plans but have to give them credit for correctly diagnosing a longstanding fault in 5 minutes that another was unable to in 3 visits over 18 months. The difference with Plans is they set up race cars so are maybe better for suspension and running stuff.

I would have said Plans are good for the major stuff. They had my engine out when the LSD was fitted.

Bondy