Looking for car restoration service in Edinburgh / Borders.

[somnv]

Hi, can anyone recommend a garage in Edinburgh or the Scottish Borders that deals with car restorations / welding / bodywork? It's for an old Mercedes. Needs to be top quality work but ideally at a reasonable price. I'm looking for someone who takes pride in what they do.

[tr7ster]

A friend of mine recently recommended Edinburgh Sports Cars in Dalkeith to me; he's had his TR6 there a couple of times in the last few months and said he was impressed. I haven't had cause or time to try them myself though.

[Gramrugby]

Roseburn Garage, don't be put off by the exterior appearance, excellent work. Did a superb job on my XJS and currently finishing my sons MGB.

[scotty_d]

I can recommend this guy, he just built me a classic mini from the ground up, it is a few months late but he really takes pride on what leaves his work shop and very fair to pay.


https://m.facebook.com/pages/AK-Vehicle-Repair/109...

[Gilhooligan]

tr7ster said:

A friend of mine recently recommended Edinburgh Sports Cars in Dalkeith to me; he's had his TR6 there a couple of times in the last few months and said he was impressed. I haven't had cause or time to try them myself though.

Bloody 'error 417'.

I took my car there to get a sill sorted on my mk1 mx5. They did a really poor job where the sill started to rust less than two years later despite me not driving my car in the winter. The lip of the wheel arch that they worked on wasn't even straight. I also had to clean the interior as the car was returned to me with it full of dust.

What really rubbed took the piss was that I was lied to when they told me that they also had to patch the underside of the car too. When I jacked the car up, there was no sign of any welding (the car is pretty clean apart from the localised rust on the sill).

They also liberally chucked waxoyl over everything which I had to rub back to remove surface rust that was underneath. They got waxoyl on the paint too. Would never use them again.

Edited by Gilhooligan on Saturday 12th April 15:32

[Edinburger]

tr7ster said:

A friend of mine recently recommended Edinburgh Sports Cars in Dalkeith to me; he's had his TR6 there a couple of times in the last few months and said he was impressed. I haven't had cause or time to try them myself though.

They also worked on my mate's Zephyr and he was happy with their quality.

[bob1179]

You could give Peugeot Ecosse in Bo'ness a call? They did a W126 Merc last year, they seem to be doing a real mix of cars now. The have moved away from their 'Max Power' roots and do a lot of restorations now. They did a great job on my 309 GTi.

[Shenanigans]

Willowbrae coachworks? Seen plenty of project cars in there during the time I've dealt with them.

[Chuggy]

Manor Garage, West Linton

[Geordie MGmike]

I'm going out of the country for a few months or I would say "bring it over"....
However, this is slightly out of Edinburgh in East Calder but for a Merc he's the man for you...

http://www.cocoskustoms.co.uk/about/index.html

the quality really stands out, just don't let him add bing

Best of

MGmike...

[somnv]

Thanks very much guys. I'll probably give a few of these guys a call and perhaps go to see them and some of their work just to get a feel for which is right for my project.

If there are any others with experiences (good or bad), please do keep posting.