MOTs, Servicing & Repairs for Kings Norton

Kings Norton is our neighbour to the east, about 1.7 miles from us. From Kings Norton Green or the Pershore Road South (A441), the B4121 runs straight to us — Middleton Hall Road becomes Bunbury Road, then Church Road, and brings you out on Bristol Road South in the middle of Northfield. For most of Kings Norton it is well under 10 minutes.

Kings Norton is a real mix. Around the Green, with St Nicolas' Church and the Saracen's Head, the streets are old and narrow, while the Three Estates — Pool Farm, Primrose and Hawkesley — and the Wychall Farm and Golf Course estates are newer. That means we see everything from well-kept older cars that have done the same local trips for years to family runabouts and vans working hard every day.

Kings Norton station is on the Cross-City line, so a lot of Kings Norton households only use the car for local runs and the weekly shop. Low-mileage cars have their own problems: batteries that go flat, brakes that seize from standing, tyres that perish before they wear out. We check for all of these, and we will tell you honestly when a car doing 3,000 miles a year needs an interim service rather than a full one.

Commuters heading out on the A441 towards Redditch, or up the Pershore Road into town, sit in plenty of stop-start traffic. That wears brakes and clutches faster than the mileage suggests, so we measure pads and discs at every service and road-test for clutch slip before it leaves you stranded.

Everything is under one roof: MOT testing (£35, with a free retest within 10 working days), interim, full and major services, brakes, suspension, exhausts, tyres and wheel alignment, clutches, timing belts, diagnostics and air con. We work on all makes, including hybrids and electric cars.