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Happy Christmas From Team ACC UK Ltd

Christmas Car
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The entire Team here at ACC UK Ltd would like to thank you for your continued custom and support throughout 2024. You have kept us extremely busy – we truly do have the best customers! Thank you to everyone who has popped in with Christmas prezzies for us – it’s much appreciated! Thank you to everyone that continues to recommend us to friends, family, work colleagues and neighbours – we truly appreciate every single one of you! It’s crazy to us that we are now servicing the cars of your children!

Our Christmas opening hours are:
23rd December 2024– 8am-5.30pm
24th December – 1st January 2025 Closed
2nd January 2025 – Opening hours as normal

If you have any issues over the festive period, please just send an email or leave a voicemail these will be monitored periodically. If you need to have your vehicle recovered to the garage no problem – just pop the keys through the letterbox. We will look at your car upon our return.

So, what have we been up to during the year? We found ourselves finalists is two Motor Industry Awards – alas we didn’t pick up a trophy this time, but it was an honour to get to the finals. 

We have been enjoying using the mezzanine floor and having the extra ramps as we have had a lot of big engine rebuild jobs throughout the year as people are preferring to hold onto their vehicles rather than buying new. This is probably due to the hike in the price of new and second-hand vehicles coupled with the interest rate increases. We have also been kept very busy fitting new tyres and doing lots of wheel alignments. Ensuring your wheels are aligned will help increase the longevity of your tyres! We hope you enjoy reading our weekly tip blogs on the website – all aimed at helping to save you money on your motoring costs. 

Aiden & Andre our apprentices are continuing to grow in experience and are doing well, under the tutelage of our Master Technician Terry. However he is struggling to understand the language of the youth of today preferring Queens English! Aiden will be graduating in 2025 and Andre the year after. Where does the time go?  

Fraser our Service Manager who many of you know finally got his new shoulder in  July and is continuing on his road to recovery. Fraser has been here at ACC UK since day 1 and the experience and loyalty him and Terry bring to the team doesn’t go unnoticed!

Andy and David, our drivers are super busy and a lot of you may already have met them. We also have a couple of new loan cars added to our fleet. We have found that since Covid and the MOT extension that was given out that there are certain months of the year where we are very busy literally doing double the amount of MOT’s – we cannot stress enough how important it is to get booked in – this is the same for any garage out there. 

Jordan, who joined us last year is continuing to grow in experience. Simon recently entered Jordan, Aiden and Andre in a competition that one of our suppliers was running -MPD – to win a huge toolbox – Jordan won and was stoked! It will take a few years to fill that box with tools it’s so big!  

Jack who is our car valeter is running his first marathon at the weekend – good luck to him – we hope he enjoys his experience!

In March Simon ran the Tokyo Marathon and the Boston Marathon in April. He picked up his 6th and final star in the Abbots World Majors – what a fantastic achievement! He raised £8,000 for the charity Michaels Miracle which is a respite centre and non profit organisation which provides care and support to individuals with disabilities. Thank You so much to all our customers and suppliers that helped raise these funds! He finished off 2024 by running The Original Athens Marathon in November! Michaels Respite Centre have invited him back to run for them again next year. Australia has had their Sydney Marathon added to The Abbots World Majors for 2025 and of course Simon has set his sights on it! He really wants that 7th Star!

All that remains for us to say is “Have a fantastic Christmas Holiday and New Year”. May 2025 be everything you want it to be! See you all next year! Stay Safe Folks!

Simon, Fraser, Terry, Jordan, Aiden, Andre, Jack, Andy & David