Garage Services

Garages and car dealerships now are very different places from the garages of the twentieth century.
  • they are clean and safe, if sometimes a bit draughty in cold weather
  • they offer you good long term career prospects
  • new technologies, to reduce carbon emissions, are likely to introduce more electric and low carbon vehicles
  • About 7% of the UK's automotive retail sector is in Scotland. Despite the current economic downturn, jobs in the sector are forecast to rise by about 2% in the next 10 years.
If you are going to do well in this work, you must be interested in the technical side of cars, motor cycles, vans, trucks and buses. You should be good with your hands. You should not mind getting them dirty. (You should not be allergic to oil or paint).

You also need to get on well with your customers, so you must be
  • polite and friendly
  • willing to listen to customers describe the faults in their vehicles.
There are currently Modern Apprenticeships in vehicle body repair and vehicle maintenance and repair. As vehicles become more complex you may take further, specialised courses, or you might move into a supervisory job. Almost all garage managers have come up through practical jobs.