If you need a mechanic in Crieff these people are honest!!! :o)
Our car has been a bit slow starting, recently, I mean the ignition didn't seem to respond very well.
We went up north, from Edinburgh to Comrie (near Crieff) for a couple of days and, hey presto, Sod's law when you're away from home, the car suddenly stopped firing up so we kept having to park it on hills and bump start it.
Every time we did get it started we ran it for ages, to charge the battery, but it kept doing the same thing.
We literally just happened to spot Strathearn Tyres as we were looking for somewhere to pull over and ring the RAC so wo pulled over into their yard and asked them to have a look anyway.
The lovely man (the owner?? White hair, late 50s-ish) tested the battery and said it was fine so he had another sniff around and discovered that the copper cable that sends the message down from the ignition had worn right through, it almost looked like someone had sawn through it!
He stripped the wire back a bit and put a new connection on- this all took him less than 10 minutes and he wouldn't take more than £10 for the work and part! He just said 'you could easily have been ripped off but we don't want to operate like that, we want people to come back with more work for us- £10 is more than enough'.
Smiley, friendly, quick, HONEST and polite!
We even went back as we'd forgotten that the tyres needed air and a young apprentice type filled them for us, with no charge at all.
Kwik Fit would most likely have whipped the battery out straightaway and charged about £100 for a new one, and probably kept the car in for at least a day.
We cannot recomend this garage highly enough- they so easily could have conned us, especially as they knew we were just passing through, but they saved our bacon!
We took them a box of nice biscuits to say thanks :o) read more
