Are there any good garages in/near Galway City?

TomF

I'm wondering if there are any good garages in or near Galway City. So far, based on my experiences with motor factors, I am beginning to form the impression that brusqueness here is at worse level than it was in Cork City, where I thought staff at factors and garages were very patient and courteous.

Interceptor

If the guys behind any trade counter smell fear from a newbie they treat you with contempt - try going into a plumbing supply centre and asking for a tap washer for a real demonstration...

Motor Factors:
In order of preference, Calbro on the Tuam Road, AD on the old Monivea Road, Partway on the Tuam Road and only if your life depends on it, Motor Store in the shopping centre.

Garages: Kilduffs on Nuns Island, PK in Liosban, Burbidges in Liosban, and there are lots more. GTB if you have injection/carb problems, Keenans for electrics and so on.

If you go to any of the main dealers you will notice that the service departments are staffed mostly by pigs and consequently you will be treated with disdain.

'c

TomF

Thanks Interceptor. I was at Calbro's not too long ago. The place was packed with knowledgeble types who I think all began poking each other in the ribs and whispering "This will be good" when I stepped to the counter and asked if I could put those multi-electode spark plugs in my '85 Fiesta. All the gang behind the counter (all terribly busy paging through catalogues, talking on the phone or typing furiously on keyboards) looked at me and then each other and winked as the Alpha Expert behind the counter shouted that you can't use them in a Fiesta. I fled to roars of laughter from the assembled experts.

mike65

...like an AnCo trainee on his first day in work experience!

Mike.

Borzoi

mike65 wrote:

...like an AnCo trainee on his first day in work experience!

Mike.

AnCo - showing your age now Mike!

Interceptor

A mate of mine, on his first day working in his fathers garage was sent to the auto factors for a set of spark plugs for a diesel Escort. They laughed him out the door....

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sceptre

Interceptor wrote:

A mate of mine, on his first day working in his fathers garage was sent to the auto factors for a set of spark plugs for a diesel Escort. They laughed him out the door....

So, erm, is it that diesels don't have spark plugs or that there wasn't a diesel Escort then?

mike65

Sceptre, get OUT of here*!

Mike.

* diesels do not have spark plugs. They use heat (glow plugs) and compression

Interceptor

Ah now, that surely deserves some kind of ban - even a short one for maybe an hour? Repeat after me - 'suck, squeeze, bang, blow'.......

'c

unkel

Borzoi wrote:

showing your age now Mike!

19(mike)65 + 40 = 2005

mike65

Now that deserves a ban...excuse me its time for me hot milk.

Mike.

unkel

LOL, so what's the date, Mike?

TomF

Where I used to work, the mechanics used to delight in sending the new kid to the tool crib for a left-handed spanner. It was also lore that old-timers used to send the kid to the boiler house for a bucket of steam.

LegacyUser

Ahh yes ... glass hammer .... bubble for a spirit level ... a tin of striped paint .... the memories are flooding back

I'm told by a plumber though, that there is such thing as a left handed wrench. (something to do with installing bath taps if you're right handed?).

mike65

unkel wrote:

LOL, so what's the date, Mike?

Listen, above a certain age its impolite to ask

Mike.