Car repairs

Cars, repairs, MOT. Unfortunatley mine is over 3 years old the garage quoted me nearly

Hi new to this forum so hello. Only joined because mylocal kept spamming my email box for me to upgrade to a premium listing, not bad for a site that hates spam
Anyway back to the topic I guess this could be said for many goods nowadays not just cars, as someone who has been in the heating and plumbing industry for 20 odd years it use to be the case that a gas boiler would last 20 - 25 years only problem with this is the manufacturers never really made much money on the spares. Nowadays the cost of a gas boiler is reletively cheap, the same can be said for televisions and all white goods in a throwaway society. Manufacturers know that within a period of say 3 - 5 years the product will breakdown and will then be able to recoup there investment on the repair costs and spares. Last year I was at a well known boiler manufacturers head office where they proudly announced that they purchased all their printed circuit boards from China @50p each and proudly sold them to the retail outlets @

A bit like cars, just as well they need replaced, the newer ones are more fuel efficient

Welcome aboard Barney

Spam!?! Cheeky git! Well crafted freemium based model marketing don't you know

Glad to see you signed up though, I'll even give you a plug
Bates Heating & Plumbing Ltd - Central Heating - London

Back to the post... MrB, the jury says get a new car