Servicing options left...

K-Serious · Post by **K-Serious** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:30 pm

Just got told by Roy ritchie that hes not doing elises anymore. He lost one of his good guys and hes too bogged down with routine work. Gutted. Was gonna try Brunty...but he wont service elises now at all then? ...damn. Where next guys?

Stay in Dundee, Glasgow at weekends.

Really bad experience with Murray Glasgow...lots to come regarding that...you wont believe it trust me.

They are extortionists to boot.

Btw, bruntys site says hes in england, northumberland, or is that in scotland...erm...

thanks for any help btw...

Post by **simon** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:35 pm

Try Falkland in Glenrothes, they're considering becoming a Lotus service garage so should be pretty good.

K-Serious · Post by **K-Serious** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:03 am

im a bit of a cynic. heard good and bad re falkland on this site. Also they would say that to an elise customer though..that theyre thinking about becomin an elise garage....

cheers

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:49 am

Falkland were average-to-good when I delt with them, friendly and helpful, seemed to know their stuff. It was good to see all the joints well coppa-slipped following my geo. I'll go back I reckon, due an A service soon.

Rich

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:38 am

You could try Bill at Greersport - details on his currently under construction site at http://www.greersport.com. Not sure if he can do elises, but heard nothing but good things from people with Jap big turbos - and my mate's RS200 get's tweaked there too.

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:48 am

i'll probably end up at dan's place down at newcastle.

try http://www.judeperformance.co.uk

good prices, good service, nothing but good things to say about them actually - it's a bloody long way away tho!

ninja

Lazydonkey · Post by **Lazydonkey** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:55 am

I have the same problem - car is out of warranty in March so i can happily wave bye bye to Vauxhall.

Was planning on using Brunty, but thats obv not going to happen any more.

Stephen · Post by **Stephen** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:41 am

I use a guy in Uddingston.
David Laing +447939631191
He has a small garage & is reasonably priced & has plenty of practice on mine. Worth a call if you are looking for the work to be done. If you want a cup of coffee and a waiting room go elsewhere.

MacK · Post by **MacK** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 11:25 am

There was previous recommendations for Manor Garage in West Linton
http://www.freeyabb.com/phpbb/viewtopic ... isheliseso

They might be wirth a try

Post by **simon** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:53 pm

My mate's brother in law works for Falkland and they are definitely thinking about the Lotus servicing.

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:48 pm

Stephen wrote:I use a guy in Uddingston.
David Laing +447939631191
He has a small garage & is reasonably priced & has plenty of practice on mine. Worth a call if you are looking for the work to be done. If you want a cup of coffee and a waiting room go elsewhere.

that's VERY handy for me! just 5 minutes up the road!!

ninja

K-Serious · Post by **K-Serious** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 12:34 am

Cheers for that update.

Maybe we just dont have a enoough people responding to the post but it worries me that there are so few solid options. you have expressed your opinions but could you tell me details that you observed that showed knowedge, honesty, professionalism, and skill about your fave place.

Ive been given such a raw deal from MMC and other motor tradesmen and im sick of their sh*t....

Just want my car to be kept normal to stay in love with it...these fcuk intentionally neglect it

cheers guys

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 10:17 am

well from the point of view of Jude performance.

Dan only really deals with lotus and has been doing so for years now.

he's only just set up on his own (last year) and is offering very good servicing prices

nice friendly service (he drove me and my gf to the metro centre to spend the day while he was servicing the elise and then came to pick us up again).

In addition to this he noted a few items which would need done on my elise in the near future but which weren't urgent at the moment, leaking gattor's etc and this to me showed that he wasn't in it for a fast buck.

price for my service + both belts changed was £200 which was about 300 LESS than murray lotus were asking. price for my up coming 36k service is £120

was also very keen to show me around the workshop (which was totally spotless) and was happy to talk about modifications and what cars he had in for servicing etc etc.

nice guy and tbh i was very impressed. just a shame it's so far away!

but this won't stop me going back tbh as i'd rather drive for a couple of hours and be happy that someone i trust is servicing my baby, than have some local muppet do the spannering.

ninja

K-Serious · Post by **K-Serious** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 12:01 pm

great info ninja

cheers

The_Rossatron · Post by **The_Rossatron** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:42 pm

I've found murrays service pretty good, the price is the only thing that annoys me. Perhaps we can get a group buy on services

or some sort of SE discount?