What is an 'Indie'?

[Byard]

What is an 'Indie'?

[Hackney]

Short for "Indiana" (Jones)

[MondeoMan1981]

A garage with no offical links to a manufacturer but has specialises in their models, often employing ex dealer mechanics etc.

[CharlieHotel]

Independant Mechanic garage IIRC.
As opposed to a branded dealership.

[zeb]

Oasis, The Verve, pulp, seahorses, stone roses

that sort of thing

[poo at Paul's]

CharlieHotel said:

Independant Mechanic garage IIRC.
As opposed to a branded dealership, you 'tard.

EFA

[soad]

I'm surprised by the posed question

[Dracoro]

MondeoMan1981 said:

A garage with no offical links to a manufacturer but has specialises in their models, often employing ex dealer mechanics etc.

It depends on which definition you use. Most people may think of an independent as non-main dealers (i.e. back street garages, specialists etc.) and not chains (kwik-fit, universal etc.).

To me, indie means not a MD or chain and nothing more. I would then want more information if I wanted a specialist for given car/marque.

[adycav]

It's a garage run by people of Caribbean descent, in that when you ring them up and describe a problem with your car, the bloke says "you'd better bring it indie garage mon".