servicing kent area

[summinelse]

hello peeps im a newbie surfer had my 3rd gen ssrx 6 month now and very happy. me inlaws got an his n hers surfs as well hence i got mine from their experience of impressive reliability and fun drive. and i must say id be lost with out ur webbie here and forum, just yesterday wanted to change me sidelight bulbs, and was a tad bemused at how it actualy attached, me inlaws couldn help and low and behold u held the answers for me for which im grateful. sumfing simple but invaluable to me. i also got some good sites to buy from ur experiences ie roughtrax etc, which im happy with. anyways i could ramble on all day but was wondering i wanna get me car serviced soon the works, ands i live in maidstone area of kent and was wondering any suggestions of suitable garages nearish, dont mind bit o travel? im afraid i dont have faith in me mechanical skills to go beyond most basic jobs. much appreciated summi

[joker??]

basingstoke too far ??

[trevdowle]

:i wanna get me car serviced soon the works, ands i live in maidstone area of kent and was wondering any suggestions of suitable garages nearish, dont mind bit o travel? im afraid i dont have faith in me mechanical skills to go beyond most basic jobs. much appreciated summi

I bought my surf from a dealer in Dartford, and he uses Century Garage in West Kingsdown. They mainly deal with large vehicles but they did a couple of jobs for me under warranty, and it was OK.
Having said that though, I travelled down to Tony in Basingstoke to get a full service done!

[summinelse]

hi ya thanx for ur advice, i spose basingstoke aint to far. specially if the level of service there is as good and thorough as it seems to be. When i looked back at sum of ur post regarding em there is nothing but good reports. ps i take it u mean 4x4toys .
is it mostly a one day thing if so is there anywhere local to go to kill sum time and maybe sum shopping for my good lady.

[stormforce]

hi ya thanx for ur advice, i spose basingstoke aint to far. specially if the level of service there is as good and thorough as it seems to be. When i looked back at sum of ur post regarding em there is nothing but good reports. ps i take it u mean 4x4toys .
is it mostly a one day thing if so is there anywhere local to go to kill sum time and maybe sum shopping for my good lady.

yup tonyn's kitchen to make the bacon sarnies..

[summinelse]

now that is a level of service i wouldn have expected. only thing is, is there brown sauce? cause if not then the service is off.. lol

[nosher]

You could try county cars in strood, on the one way system behind macdonalds. he has done some work on my surfs, and i found him to be good
just go in and ask for ben or allan

[summinelse]

actually thats where i got it from. i must admit i did find them helpful when i got the car, it had no tools jack etc so they got em all for me no cost. But must admit i didn even think about then for servicing, now i look back i dunno y, oh well i got it booked into tony at 4x4 toys in basingstoke for this thursday, me good lady dead happy bout shopping there so two birds one stone kinda thing. ps do u do much off roading round these parts as i wanna see and maybe have a go. but im a bit of a tart and keep me car as spotless as i can, so dubious of scratching it. ( soz for sounding a wimp but
7k for a car is quite a bit of money for me so dont wanna rush to wreck it)

[da SLUG man]

good shopping in basingstoke. http://www.festivalplace.co.uk/
plenty of places to eat and drink...
multi screen cinema etc.

bowling alley and toys r us & KFC (!!) pretty much at the end of Tony's road.

also a good pub with nice meals about 2 mins walk from tony's.

[summinelse]

well just had me surf serviced at tony's in basingstoke. And i must say im very happy. His enthusiasm with these cars is a pleasure to see and with not a great outlay in cost we can benefit from all of his experience and knowledge. well word of mouth got me to tony so i will do my best to pass it on. thanx chris .

[stormforce]

well just had me surf serviced at tony's in basingstoke. And i must say im very happy. His enthusiasm with these cars is a pleasure to see and with not a great outlay in cost we can benefit from all of his experience and knowledge. well word of mouth got me to tony so i will do my best to pass it on. thanx chris .

did you get the bacon sarnies tho?

[BUSHWHACKER]

did you get the bacon sarnies tho?

More important, was there milk for the tea?

[summinelse]

unfortunately me misses wanted to shop till we dropped so didn stay for bacon etc but sumfing to go back for lol

[nero279]

If your still interested in doin/watchin some offroading have a look at www.woodlands4x4.ic24.net, it's only round the corner from you just outside wrotham, i should be there this sunday. If you're going to go i would go M26 first junction, through wrotham village and along kemsing road, it's by far the better route coming from this end of the m20. It really isn't all as hard as the pictures on the site make out and there are several easy routes, and some good sections to stand and watch the landrover/suzuki brigade strut their stuff.


i had a 'service' (term used loosely) done by autoworld who at the time were at canterbury, but since relocated to faversham, and although i'm not gonna slag them off, as they were very accomodating, allowed me to source parts and have them delivered straight there, as they could only get genuine toyota parts at genuine toyota prices, and milners were almost £300 cheaper in total, and they took it in as a breakdown straight off the back of an rac recker at 8 in the morning, I still wasn't overly impressed with the service, they hadn't done some things i asked them to do as extras to a normal service, replace diff oils, replace a switch on the transfer case etc.. and they just didn't seem to have great knowledge of toyotas. So despite gettin me surf back on the road without it costin the earth, i just wouldn't recommend them.

[summinelse]

well nero that sounds just the ticket. its local its got a variety of tracks plus skills of driver, and im off this sunday to boot so im free to go and see wats wat. so hopefully all being well i will see u there then nero.
ps ill be in a blue surf with county cars wheel cover lol