I have to post this. I'm not an owner, shareholder or employed by this mechanic. I simply go along, as a fairly non-mechanically minded person and trust them to do a good and honest job - and they do.
The Bridge Motor Company, Withington, Manchester
are a fairly small, privately owned mechanics who service any car that's taken to them. I've been going along to them for nearly eight years after being tipped off by my landlady. In that time I've owned a
340, 240, 740 and now a 940 all of which have been put right, repaired, serviced and MOT'ed regularly by them.
But the reason for this posting is my current experience of them. I took my J-reg 940 estate along to them a few weeks ago with this problem:
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spending a whole day testing every component that the errormessages suggested might be at fault, they explained to me that theyhad failed to find the problem and so didn't feel able to justifycharging me anything more than a token hour's worth of labour. It wasfrustrating to be told that the problem had escaped them and awful tothink that I needed to await an inevitable roadside encounter when theproblem managed to develop itself enough to be identifiable. So I'veonly been driving locally and have continued to search this and othergroups. I thought I'd finally hit on something and posted this:
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's+guide+in-tank&rnum=1#6712fc19a216ea88Today, the car went in for the in-tank fuel pump to be replaced. I gota call mid-morning to tell me that they'd discovered the wiring for thein-tank fuel pump was disconnected, had hooked it back up and foundthat the problem was no more! So no in-tank fuel pump needing to bereplaced. Furthermore, having discovered the disconnected wiring whenprepping for the job, they refused to be paid anything as they saidthey'd not done any work to charge for. I am astonished! I can't imagine any other mechanics being so honest and decent. Surely many mechanics would have done the job anyway and others would have charged without even doing it. The least I expected in this scenario was a rather annoyed mechanic making at least an hour's labour charge having been messed about by me. But nothing of the sort.
My wife collected the car and they were courteous and polite. I just can't say enough to commend them to every reader of this group.
The Bridge Motor Company
122 Burton Road, Withington, Manchester (0161 445 1380)