Where these pages came from
Notes kept in sheds around Sligo, tidied up and put online because nobody else was writing this part down. Nothing here is sponsored and nothing is attached to the trade.
Before it was a site
It began as a folder of notes: which jobs went badly, which went easily, what a part really cost once postage and the customs charge had been added on.
Those notes were being copied out for other people often enough that publishing them turned out to be less work than sending them one at a time.
A few pages still read like notes. That is deliberate and it is not going to be smoothed away.
What keeps it going
Hosting and time come out of our own pockets, with the sessions on the services page covering the rest.
Nothing on these pages is an advertisement. There are no affiliate links to parts shops, no write-ups paid for by anyone, and no standing arrangement with a supplier, a plater, a machinist or a workshop.
If any of that ever changes, it gets said here before it happens anywhere else.
What we keep well away from
Prices for cars, parts and half-finished projects. Somebody asks most weeks and the answer has never varied.
Verdicts on work somebody else has done. A photograph of a repair shows almost nothing, and the person who did it is not present to explain the choices they made.
League tables of suppliers and workshops. Such a list would record who we happen to know, which is a different thing from who is any good.
Telling us we are wrong
Name the page and the sentence, and say what happened in your own shed. The address is on the contact page and it is read by somebody who works on cars.
If it holds up, the page is amended and a dated note underneath records what it used to say.
If it turns out to be two workshops doing the same job two ways, the page says so, because that is worth a reader knowing.