Owner's guides
What to check, what to ask, and what good work looks like — written for owners without a network to ask.
- OWNERSHIP
Independent or main dealer
What each is actually better at, when the answer is genuinely the dealer, and the questions that decide it for your car rather than in general.
- OWNERSHIP
What a service costs, and what moves the price
Why two quotes for the same car differ, which items are on their own clock, and the one question that separates a quote that holds from one that becomes a phone call.
- OWNERSHIP
Before your first independent service
What to gather before you book, the questions that separate specialists from generalists, and what a good handover looks like when you collect the car.
- BUYING
How to read a McLaren PPI report
What a thorough <a href="/specialists/service/pre-purchase-inspection">pre-purchase inspection</a> actually covers, how to read what an inspector will and will not commit to, and the findings worth stopping for.
- OWNERSHIP
Warranty and independents
Using an independent does not automatically void anything. What the rules say, what actually puts a claim at risk, and what to keep so it does not.
These are information, not advice about any individual car. Where a guide touches rules that differ by country it says which country it was written for, and carries the date it was last reviewed.
Guides are written by the register. Where one is reviewed by a verified specialist, that is the same specialist you can book through this site — the review is worth having and the interest is worth stating.