Barnhill Garage

Be VERY VERY careful if you are buying a car here. Or going for an MOT. The MOT document maybe meaningless. I purchased a car privately which had 11months mot with the certificate coming from John McGregor's Barnhill garage. When talking to garages for the advisories to be looked at they raised serious concern to corrosion at the rear. A hole large enough for a grown man to put his hands through and up into the subframe. Obviously buyer beware of private sales, but customers should be able to trust an MoT certificate from a local garage to be an accurate reflection of the condition of a car. In my case over past 6 weeks I've had 3 garages quote to repair the corrosion they have all said the work isn't feasible to repair and given the significance of the corrosion it's extremely unlikely that the car should have passed its MOT on 9th June 2023. It's potentially unsafe to drive. Posting this on 3 Nov 2024 as I spoke to John McGregor today on the phone. He wasn't concerned about listening to my concerns or any good will gestures the only thing he was willing to say was I'm welcome to get the work reviewed through a 3rd party like vosa. It's sad that the garage that signed off on the work is unwilling to review this themselves and are so dismissive of the safety concerns I raised over cars like mine which appear to have passed MoT in error.

At this point It'll have to go for mediated review through VOSA. One of the other garages were kind enough to show me the car on a ramp so I could take photographic evidence for this MoT dispute, I'm happy to share so people can take a look for themselves and decide if they think the level of corrosion is reasonable to of occured over the summer and autumn to the extent it John McGregor claims to be the case after the MOT.

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Excellent service

Car had problems going in but was 10 times worse when it came back out. I was gutted after paying a lot of money. Had to go back and was charged even more than the first time. Never going back as its now like a conveyor belt and mistakes are being made, lots of other people agree with me.