Automerc Newbury are no more

[DickyC]

Just called in to book my car in for service, the yard looked suspiciously empty and the doors were all shut.



Shame. I've got on well with them for years.

[Dog Star]

Never been there, but a lot of my SLs service history is from them.

[DickyC]

Nice people. Knew their stuff. Wished I'd gone there years earlier. The last time I had my wife's car serviced at the main dealer it came back with a video made by the technician who serviced it. "This is rusty, needs replacing. That's rusty, needs replacing. These are rusty, need replacing." I asked the Service Manager how it came to be like that. He asked what I meant. I told him that as they'd serviced and maintained the car for sixteen years, it shouldn't have got into that state. He was non-committal. I took it round the corner to Automerc. The guvnor, Gordon, looked it over. He said the exhaust didn't need replacing, but fitted new clips and clamps. The brake lines didn't all need replacing, but replaced the ones that did. The road springs and shock absorbers would need replacing eventually. Structurally, nothing to worry about. Realistic and pragmatic. Automerc looked after it afterwards and when I bought my C Class that went there as well. I'm a bit stuck now.

The other side of the argument, of course, is they're are out of business and MB are still functioning.

[Huzzah]

That's a shame, always a pity to lose a reliable and trusted service.

[tobinen]

Blimey. I only used it a couple of times but I drive past it most days and it always looked busy.

[DickyC]

tobinen said:

Blimey. I only used it a couple of times but I drive past it most days and it always looked busy.

Yes, it was a real shock.