Norman Stuart Auto Services

Recommended to me by a mechanic from work, i’m just back having had my 21 year old car mot’d/serviced, passed with a couple of advisories to which mechanic gave me advice. Completely honest and reasonably priced, i’ll use them forever more.

I’ve been meaning to review these guys for ages but was reminded the other day when The Man took his car in for its MOT.
In short, they’re honest and do a great job. They won’t make up (and charge) for unnecessary repairs, they’ll do an excellent job on the repairs they do, and they’ll be friendly and good craic when you’re dealing with them.
They also have crazy good memories as they remembered that our car was making a funny rattle when we took it in for the MOT last year, but at that time they identified that the noise wasn’t indicative of a problem and was nothing more than a nuisance. When booking in for this year’s MOT, the guy asked if we were fed up with the rattle and did we want it sorted — being cheap and not being bothered by it we said not to bother, but he just fixed it anyway with no charge.
Shortly after last year’s MOT, The Man took a speedbump too fast and knocked something loose under the car. When he took it in for them to take a look, they fixed it for free.
Every time we return we walk away with more glowing stories of their service and ability. Five stars all around.

Norrie, Gavin and the other staff are always super honest and super reliable! Couldn’t recommend them more!
He was recommended by a guy who retired, Ronnie Young, also an old-​school HONEST mechanic. Since then we have been to Farmer’s for an MOT, when Norrie was too booked up, and they wanted to do £800 worth of work to pass the car– we paid the MOT fee but said ‘no, thank you’ to the work, took it to Norrie a couple of days later and hey, presto, he passed it with only a couple of small things wrong!
Cost us another £50 MOT fee and maybe £20 on top so, overall, and including Farmer’s MOT fee, we paid approx £120 versus the £50 + £800 Farmer’s wanted. and this is after Farmer’s giving us much better deals over the years than Kwik Fit, who are massive robbers!!!
(They are now known as, variously, ‘Kwik Kon’, ‘Kwik Shit’ and ‘Shit fit’, in our household).
SOwill Norrie just pass your car for the sake of it? NO.
Will he be honest and not try to rip you off, and do exactly what the car needs and not a penny more?
WHY, YES! :oD
Give him your business because the honest businesses are dying out.

This garage was introduced to me by a work colleague. Gavin is fantastic and I am never using another garage again now I have found them!
It is so hard finding a garage you can trust. My car is now 8 years old and in my last MOT all I needed was two tyres and a windscreen washer pump. Every time I’ve taken it to another garage they always seemed to come up with things that needed doing, and as I am not a mechanic myself I don’t have a clue!
Gavin takes pride in his work and does little extra bits and bobs for you, for example he cleaned my light up so water didn’t build up in it and filled up my windscreen wash. He is also always happy to discuss with you what needs done and show you in a way that isn’t patronising.
I would definitely recommend this garage to anyone. It is also really handy as you can walk around morningside when your cars being done and Loopy Lornas is nearby so you can go and eat their amazing cakes whilst waiting for your car (always a winner).