Bere Regis

Mobile mechanic in Bere Regis

Out here, "mobile" isn't a convenience. It's the only version of this that makes sense.

Bere Regis and the Piddle valley villages — Briantspuddle, Affpuddle, Turners Puddle, Winterborne Kingston — are a proper drive from any garage. When a car won't start here, the usual routine means recovery to Poole or Dorchester, a day without the car, then somehow getting back to collect it. For a lot of households round here that's not an inconvenience, it's the whole day's plans gone — school runs, work, the lot.

My version is simpler: you call, I drive out from Wareham, and the car gets fixed where it stands — on the drive, in the farmyard, outside the village hall. Most jobs that would have meant a recovery truck turn out to be a morning's work on the spot: batteries, starters, brakes, fuel problems, electrical faults. And the planned work — servicing, cambelts, clutches, MOTs by appointment — happens the same way, without you ever leaving the village.

It's also working country. Vans that earn their keep, 4x4s that live outdoors, trailers and horseboxes towed by them — vehicles that work hard and can't be spared for a garage queue. That's exactly the work a van full of tools is built for.

Fixed where it stood

Wheel off, bonnet up, sorted on the spot — no recovery truck involved. That's the normal way of things out here.