Kwik-Fit

If you want something looked at there and then, or just a tyre then KwikFit is okay.
However, their costs are unbelievable. To replace a complete exhaust/​cat system was quoted at £710 (which they dropped to £650 when I gasped). I got the whole thing done elsewhere for £230 (which seems the correct price after internet research).
Similarly, I opted for their £25 MOT ‘offer’, but was told it needed £300 pounds worth of repairs to pass. Took it elsewhere and was £180 for MOT and service.
So unless your doing the Paris-​Dakar rally late on Sunday (they are open 7 dats which helps), do your research and shop around. And as I say, tyres are ok, but don’t take their first price.

I last visited this Kwik-​Fit some years ago, so I hope the staff have remained consistent and the service as good as I received. In the middle of winter a while back, I was stuck in the snow and ice, in a traffic jam, just on the brow of Chesser Avenue. Nothing was moving and I was stressed to the max. Next thing I know, the car engine just gives out, and I can’t get it restarted. Thinking fast, I threw on my hazards, jumped out of the car waving to the guy behind me just to go around, and ran down to the Kwik-​Fit garage. I explained to the first mechanic I found that I was stuck and causing traffic chaos, without batting an eyelid, he grabbed a couple of colleagues, hot-​footed it back to my car, pushed it to the side of the road out of the way — meanwhile I was treated to a hot cuppa in the garage! Long story short, they got the car running for me later in the day, and didn’t charge me one single penny! Brilliant! You can’t get better and all that!