Bournemouth · Independent garage
Welding
Exhaust, structural and corrosion welding, including the repairs an MOT failure often turns on.
Sound familiar? The exhaust has blown and the vehicle has become loud.
Signs you might notice
If any of these describes your vehicle, this is the page for it.
The exhaust has blown and the vehicle has become loud.
A failure sheet lists corrosion in a prescribed area, or a cracked or holed exhaust.
There is rust around a sill, a subframe mount or a suspension mounting point.
What the work covers
- Exhaust repairs and section replacement where welding is the sensible fix.
- Structural and corrosion repair to sills, floors and mounting points.
- Work listed on an MOT failure, carried out so the vehicle can be re-tested.
- A straight answer when a section is beyond economic repair.
How it works
Bring the vehicle in, with the failure sheet if there is one.
We inspect the affected area — corrosion is usually wider than it looks from underneath — and tell you what the repair involves.
We agree the work with you before any cutting starts, because once a section is opened up the extent of it stops being a matter of opinion.
We carry out the welding, and arrange the re-test where one is needed.
Why choose AutoTech Garage?
What you can hold us to on this job.
We agree the work with you first
We explain what we have found and what putting it right involves, and nothing beyond what you have agreed is carried out without a telephone call first.
One independent workshop in Bournemouth
Routine servicing and major mechanical work are both done here, by the same garage, so you are not passed on when a job turns out to be a large one.
Common questions
Can you weld a repair listed on my MOT failure?
Usually, yes. Corrosion in a prescribed area and a holed exhaust are both common failure items and both are work we do ourselves. We arrange the re-test once the repair is finished.Why can you not price welding over the telephone?
Because what a corrosion repair takes depends on how much sound metal is left around it, and nobody can see that from a description — including the description on a failure sheet, which records where an inspector found a hole rather than how far it goes. The vehicle goes on the ramp, we look at the extent of it, and then you get a figure. Nothing is carried out until you have been told what it will come to and have agreed to it. If the answer is that the section is beyond economic repair, that is the answer you get, rather than a bill for a repair that would not have lasted.What happens if you find more once it is on the ramp?
We stop and tell you. A sill that looked like one failure point can turn out to be two, and the honest moment to say so is before the welder is switched on rather than when the work is finished. What happens next is your decision, and that includes deciding not to go ahead.Can every corroded section be welded?
Not always. Once corrosion has spread far enough a repair stops being sound, and we will say so rather than patch over it. You will get a straight answer either way.Do you weld exhausts, or only replace them?
Both, depending on the state of the part. A sound exhaust with one failure point is often worth welding; one that has corroded along its length is not.
Talk to us about your vehicle
Tell us the make, model and what it is doing, and we will tell you what the work involves before anything is agreed.