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    The Motor Ombudsman reveals award winners

    The Motor Ombudsman has announced the winners of its 2021 Garage Star Awards and inaugural Customer Servi ...

    The Motor Ombudsman has announced the winners of its 2021 Garage Star Awards and inaugural Customer Service Star Awards. The Garage Star Awards were launched in 2020 by the Ombudsman to recognise busi ...

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    Schaeffler teams up with DENSO

    The Schaeffler REPXPERT technical team was back in action recently, with a slightly different ‘Tea-break ...

    The Schaeffler REPXPERT technical team was back in action recently, with a slightly different ‘Tea-break training’ session. Teaming up with fellow original equipment (OE) manufacturer DENSO, it delive ...

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    GaragesNear.me waives commission fee

    GaragesNear.me has announced it will be going commission-free until at least the end of 2021. The platfor ...

    GaragesNear.me has announced it will be going commission-free until at least the end of 2021. The platform has decided to waive its 10% fee to encourage more bookings and means the site will be comple ...

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    Ben launches Christmas appeal

    Ben has launched a Christmas Appeal which aims to raise at least £500,000 to ensure it can support the re ...

    Ben has launched a Christmas Appeal which aims to raise at least £500,000 to ensure it can support the record numbers of people calling on its services. Ben has seen a 147% increase in demand for supp ...

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    Delphi Technologies enhances EV content

    Delphi Technologies has further enhanced the electrified vehicle content on its online training platform, ...

    Delphi Technologies has further enhanced the electrified vehicle content on its online training platform, with the addition of a virtual insight into the workings of a high voltage battery. Entitled ‘ ...

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    First Line launches 2022 wall planners

    First Line has launched its wall planners for the new year, with the 2022 edition now available for facto ...

    First Line has launched its wall planners for the new year, with the 2022 edition now available for factors and workshops to claim online. Each full year planner is double-sided, so factor staff and w ...

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    MEYLE offers online courses

    MEYLE has announced it will be offering a range of digital training courses free of charge, under the nam ...

    MEYLE has announced it will be offering a range of digital training courses free of charge, under the name MEYLE Academy. MEYLE has offered an e-learning course on high-voltage vehicles for German-spe ...

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    First Line launches clutch installation campaign

    First Line has launched a campaign to help educate the importance of best practice clutch installation, d ...

    First Line has launched a campaign to help educate the importance of best practice clutch installation, designed to support independent garages and parts distributors. Key aspects will be ‘education’, ...

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    Schaeffler announces range extension

    Schaeffler has announced several new-to-range part numbers so that workshops can offer original equipment ...

    Schaeffler has announced several new-to-range part numbers so that workshops can offer original equipment (OE) repair solutions to customers. The products include a LuK RepSet clutch kit for the Skoda ...

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    Autotech Academy places first female intern

    Autotech Academy has placed its first female intern. Here, Sophie Hemming highlights her journey into the ...

    Autotech Academy has placed its first female intern. Here, Sophie Hemming highlights her journey into the automotive industry.  Sophie candidly admits that securing a vehicle technician role was frequ ...

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    BM Catalysts raises concerns over emissions

    BM Catalysts has called for a greater clampdown on the use of poor quality emissions control devices, suc ...

    BM Catalysts has called for a greater clampdown on the use of poor quality emissions control devices, such as catalytic converters, in the hopes it will bring about a serious reduction of harmful vehi ...

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    Recruitment specialists join forces

    Three of the UK’s automotive recruitment specialists have formed The Automotive Recruitment Alliance in a ...

    Three of the UK’s automotive recruitment specialists have formed The Automotive Recruitment Alliance in a bid to streamline the recruitment process for the aftermarket.  Autotech Group, Glen Callum As ...

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    Ring responds to MOT rush season

    Ring Automotive has boosted its availability of lighting products at its UK based warehouse in Leeds, in ...

    Ring Automotive has boosted its availability of lighting products at its UK based warehouse in Leeds, in a response to the MOT rush season. With an anticipated 60% of all annual MOTs due to take place ...

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    Schaeffler redesigns REPXPERT portal

    Schaeffler has completely redesigned its REPXPERT portal to update the resource created for technicians, ...

    Schaeffler has completely redesigned its REPXPERT portal to update the resource created for technicians, workshop owners and parts distributors. Marketing Communications Manager, Jeff Earl, explained: ...

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    NGK announces MECHANEX participation

    NGK Spark Plugs (UK) has announced it will be exhibiting at MECHANEX, its first automotive show since bef ...

    NGK Spark Plugs (UK) has announced it will be exhibiting at MECHANEX, its first automotive show since before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The supplier of original equipment (OE) spark plugs, gl ...

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