11/10/2025
Over the last few months, I have noticed that I have had multiple customers old and new who did not know that I also do general and running repairs including vehicle servicing and that they only thought I did electrical diagnosis and electrical repairs.
So, I thought I would make a post to clarify things, although I specialise in electrical problems, electrical fault finding and in-depth diagnosis, my automotive background started at the age of 15, where I served a 4-year mechanic apprenticeship with a Rover dealership in the Partick area of Glasgow, (Macharg, Rennie & Lindsay). This dealership supplied vehicles from Rover/MG/LDV/Leyland/Land Rover/Austin and the original Mini.
After I served my time, I moved on to work as a mechanic at a Ford dealer in the Temple/Anniesland area of Glasgow, (Premier Ford), this did not last long, approximately 8 months, as the Ford dealer went into administration and closed down.
I then secured a mechanic position with to a multi franchise main dealership again in the Hyndland area of Glasgow's west end working on Daihatsu, Mazda, Kia and Skoda, (Hyndland Motors).
I eventually moved on to start working at a brand-new Toyota dealership in Bishopbriggs in the north of Glasgow (Arnold Clark), where I spent over 10 years working my way up from mechanic to become a Toyota master technician and workshop chargehand but I also assisted the workshop foreman and service manager with other areas of the business.
Working with Toyota is where I refined a lot of my diagnostic skills though manufacturer and employer training, including gaining knowledge, experience and certification for working on Hybrids and EVs.
While working for Arnold Clark I took on extra roles specifically working evenings/nights and over weekends on a rotational basis to do vehicle roadside breakdowns and vehicle recovery including accident recovery.
Finally, I worked at Mercedes Benz of Glasgow as a Pro Technician prior to moving to Argyll.
Although working mainly in main dealerships for the respective brands I was fortunate enough to work on all makes and models and not just brand specific vehicles with these dealerships.
I started AVT in the January of 2018 and it will soon be my 9th year of operation, and I have become busier each year, not just with my own work load and customers but also with assisting other repairers in the Kintyre and Mid-Argyll areas with problematic issues on vehicles that require my skills to be put to use, wither that’s just basic or advanced diagnosis of problems, programming and coding of new modules and components or restoring factory software into vehicles that have had software deletes, which the main reason for this is the deletion of emissions controls components and systems, such as DPFs, EGRs and AdBlue systems.
In all I have over 25 year’s experience in the automotive industry, so if you need anything vehicle related wither it’s just servicing, general and running repairs right though to in-depth diagnostics and electrical fault finding, please get in touch.
