A1 Tyres is a great little business that's been serving the interests of the local community for…read moreover seventeen years. Offering a good selection of tyres, with a number of really affordable options, this friendly little tyre outlet is one of the cheapest places to get your tyres seen to in Cardiff. Ronnie March, who set up the business with another partner back at the beginning of the ninety's knows what it's like to weather a recession. Nevertheless, he says that times are tough at the moment and that business is simply "about surviving" until things improve. What he's noticed most of all is that people, who are desperate to stay on the road, are asking him to put on their spare tyres when thy get a puncture instead of buying new ones. These are people with very little money, either drawing the dole, or in minimum wage jobs, where often their hours have been cut. But, without a car their chances of improving their lot are significantly reduced. It's a vicious cycle! Ronnie does what he can to help, but it's clear that he finds the situation demoralising on occasion. Nevertheless, he has a wealth of experience behind him, and a solid set of shoulders with which to carry the present burdens. Being an affable soul, with a sense of civic interest, coupled with a good sense of humour, he will do more than survive I'm sure.

This tyre place must be the best in Cardiff. You won't get ripped off with silly prices like the…read moreoutrageous Kwik Fit people. Rang them up the other day and they wanted 48 pound off my daughter to fix a puncture!!!! With A1 tyres owner Ronnie you get sincere cheap prices and he always has a smile on his face with a friendly word too. To prove the popularity of A1 he has many loyal customers from when he started up years ago.I talk to them while waiting my turn and they have nothing but praise for this hard worker Ronnie at the front of his business.Give him a go and you will see what we all mean.

Fixed puncture quickly, friendly staff, As a female on my own knowing nothing about cars they…read moredidn't try to rip me off. When I said I thought the tyre needed replacing , they told me it would be ok for a while rather than just trying to sell me a tyre that I didn't need.

Had a bad experience today, took car in at 10am was told 15 minute wait and 15 minutes to do and…read morewas assured that as I had to be out by 11am to pick my granddaughter up from nursery, 1 hour on and 3 wheels ff I asked how long would it be, no one had worked on the car for the last 15 minutes, if I did, the guy went off on one with me in a packed waiting room, I was told to leave, they would put the old ones back on, when trying to justify why I asked, the guy said I had an atitude problem, they were non to gentle when jacking the car down and the wheels felt wobbly to drive, would he had spoken to me like that if I was a man. Also no one in the waiting room stuck up for me, Not a safe place for females to take their cars. It was the boss who spoke to me, nice for business mate.

Bought 2 part worn tyres from this company. One of them had a slow puncture. Upon taking them back…read moreI was told by Andrew Nolan that the tyre was fine when he put it on there and that I would need to pay to have it fixed. You can see a faint yellow circle where it was highlighted for past repair even though I have been told by a couple mechanics that you should not fix side wall punctures as the plug often fails to fix the problem long term. I was told to F'off by an Andrew Nolan who I discovered was the owner of the garage when looking his company up. I urge anyone considering using these cowboys to avoid this garage at all costs!! Needless to say I went elsewhere and bought from another garage. I suggest you do the same!!

Simply needed a replacement tyre - the man I dealt with (I guess he was the manager) was lovely. He…read moreordered the tyre in first thing in the morning and when I returned mid-afternoon he changed it free of charge. I'm a bit clueless when it comes to cars but I didn't feel at all confused or patronised here. I'd feel quite happy walking in there again.

Work near this garage and have always thought they were okay…read more However they changed an exhaust for me a month ago and the new exhaust makes my car sound like a tractor. So loud that people stare at me at traffic lights. No new exhaust should be noisy! The owner refused to change it and said it 'blows fumes out' so it does what it should. He acknowledged that he had put a cheap exhaust on, and had also made a comment about my car needing to be scrapped (it's a tidy R reg.. no rust, silent engine, perfect drive), and clearly decided to treat my car as such. He told me the noise was because my car's emissions were out. I may be female, but I know when someone's talking a load of rubbish. Having had other garages look at it, they have said that the new tailpipe is shorter than the one he removed and should be either longer, or angled downwards. Again, the owner of City Tyres keeps saying that 'it blows air out' and that he will not replace it as it isn't faulty. When I pointed out that the exhaust should be longer, he told me that I 'should have gone to Toyota'. I'm currently going down the Trading Standards route with this guy. He is patronising, sexist and obnoxious. Don't go there. I will update as things unfold. ** Have increased the ratings slightly. Hmmm. I went back armed with DOT guidelines and a load of legislation provided for me by Trading Standards regarding the sale of goods or services. All of a sudden the owner stopped being quite so condescending and argumentative, and started staring intently at the order catalogue and then said that the supplier had given them the exhaust for a hatchback instead of a saloon. So, too short, then. As I had been saying all along. They added an extention to the tailpipe.. and at this point the owner disappeared and I was left dealing with one of the mechanics, who was a whole lot more pleasant. It cost me a whole load of stress, several phonecalls to Trading Standards, a visit to another garage, and a very unpleasant shouting match over the phone with the owner, who insisted he was refusing to change anything. Note of warning he seems to think that shouting loudly and repeating the same phrase over and over, makes him right. Going back there was pretty hard, given I will usually do anything to avoid confrontation. If he had listened to me at the start, admitted he'd fitted the wrong exhaust and treated me with a little common courtesy, I would be giving them 5 stars. I work approximately 30 feet from this garage and it's very convenient but I will never, ever go there again. A shame, cos the rest of the lads are pretty nice guys.

I've used Dragon Tyres many times over the last 6/7 years and always found them competitive on…read moreprice.However,recently their service has become so poor that I won't be using them again.I've been waiting over 3 weeks for a problem to be rectified,a problem I might add caused by one of their own fitters.I've been passed from pillar to post,promised numerous call backs,return of van delivery times and still noone wants to 'own' the problem.Oh and to complete my moan; 2 previous orders - the fitter didn't turn up for one and he forgot his tracking equipment the other.My advice - steer clear until this company put in place some basic customer service principles.In the meantime try www.mytyres.co.uk ;really cheap and you get to choose the fitter.

Excellent! My VW Golf had been leaking for years and several garages had attempted to fix it but…read morenobody fixed it 100%. I took it to Express Vehicle Services and Kev and his team fixed the problem completely. Really friendly place too. Thanks guys, I can't recommend you enough.

From the owner: We are a car repair garage with branches in Cardiff and Barry. We offer a wide range of services…read moreincluding servicing, MoTs, tyres, exhausts, brakes and much more. We offer a specialised electrical diagnostic and repair service that not many garages in South Wales can offer.

Mr Clutch Autocentre is one of those kinds of businesses that read like a book. By that I mean that…read morethey tell you exactly what they do by writing it all over the walls. I could in fact not tell you anything, and simply upload a few photographs, and you would be left in no doubt as to what this business does... in some detail! But I'll précis it here for you, just in case the resolution of the images isn't good enough for you to able to read the print: You can also contact Mr Clutch Autocentre for further details about the services offered by Nick Wash and Valet Centre. Nick Wash and Valet Centre doesn't have its own contact number, but as it rents space in the Mr Clutch Autocentre building, they are happy to deal with enquiries. Mr Clutch obviously fit new clutches. That's a given! But they also fit brakes, gearboxes, exhausts, batteries etc etc... In fact they undertake all manner of repair work, offering a lifetime guarantee on any breaks that they fix. (That's the life of your car and not you... just in case you were wondering...) They are also an MOT and service centre Mr Clutch Autocentre also has a freephone number: 0800 676767