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Unipart in Mobil1 oil supply agreement

Vehicle pimping may be value spoiler, warns auction house

A Conservative MP is calling for the BSI Kitemark scheme to be made standard for UK garages. Robert Halfon, MP for Harlow, tabled a Motion in Parliament after making a radio appearance alongside Kitemark champion Quentin Wilson [...]

Just one year after the trade convinced the previous government to scrap proposals to reduce the MOT test frequency from once a year to every two years, the threat of a 4-2-2 regime has once more reared its ugly head [...]

The UK Right to Repair CampaIgn Strategy Group has disbanded. Jim Mazza, the Campaign's chairman, said: “The Campaign united the entire independent aftermarket, which added huge weight to our arguments as we were able to speak on behalf of the whole industry [...]

Euro Car Parts has opened a new 400,000 sqft national distribution centre in Tamworth – investing £15 million in new stock in the process. “This is the largest single investment ECP has ever made,” said owner Sukhpal Singh [...]

The number of garages operating in the UK has plummeted by a third in the last 10 years, and the trend is set to continue. Confirming the suspicions of many in the aftermarket, the Trend Tracker report, based on a survey of 17,000 motorists, charts the falling demand for car servicing and repair [...]

The independent aftermarket is celebrating after the European Commission adopted a new sector-specific Block Exemption Regulation last month. Industry commentators welcomed the new rules. However, they warned that the fight for full access to technical information is not yet over [...]

£75k fine for tyre dumping, retailers warned

Philips’ win lights up aftermarket prospects