This topic seems to have creaped (creeped) from another old thread,

I still stand by my comment...

If you have a busy workshop, happy customers & operate sensible standards of quality control & fair trading, then why bother forking out on an approval scheme offered by a chemical (workshop consumable) company. Blimey, I am surprised that there isn't a "Snap-on approved garage" scheme available.

As suggested by someone previously, there is always going to be the type of customer who wants (needs) a cheap, back street repair that suits his or her pocket. It maybe that the repair is done buy someone like you guys & therefore hopefully all will be well with the world. But as we all know there will always be the guy down the pub that will service your beamer for 75 quid. Never mind that 75 quid won’t buy the proper parts, the customer hasn’t got a clue what is involved in the job these days.

In short, you gets what you pay for, & if you try to put legislation in place to prevent “back street repairs” then all you will achieve will be, imposing higher costs for the proper “average” motorist & force the “bargain hunter” type to go underground.

Can anyone foresee a situation were a car requires an annual maintenance certificate, not like an MOT, were the vehicle meets a minimum standard, but to prove that it has been serviced to a government approved standard, buy officially certificated technicians, with specific manufacturer training for the said vehicle, to BSI standard 103430 whatever ???

This country is so tied up with bureaucracy & paper work that it is fast becoming a joke to the rest of the world. Take a look at all the other government-regulated bodies. The Health service, Schools, the military & Police service, Child support agency, Passport office, VOSA. Do any of these actually perform an efficient task? They all need a rocket up them in some way or another.

Few thats better!