MOT & ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE CENTRE IN DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY

Highly regarded Class 4 MOT specialist with very long established reputation & client base offering fast professional services on 5-day week from spacious & extremely well fitted industrial workshop & office premises on historic town centre High Street, Comes with valuable inventory of equipment included & HUGE scope for extended hours & online marketing etc in outstanding location. Sensibly priced for genuine retirement sale after many successful years trading in same hands with viewing highly recommended REF 2462

The subject premises occupy an outstanding and highly visible trading position with little in the way of direct local competition, just off the busy main central High Street of the charming and historic riverside town of Sanquhar, which lies at the junction of the main A76 and the popular “Southern Upland Way” in a delightful rural area of Dumfries and Galloway.

We are delighted to present this outstanding opportunity to acquire a thriving commercial proposition of real quality and uncommon further potential, which we are confident you will agree represents genuine value.

This very long established and highly regarded automotive solutions provider is currently primarily equipped to high industry specifications to undertake fast, professional and fully accredited Class IV MOT work for most petrol and diesel, private and light commercial marques.

“Nithsdale Garage” also offers a wide range of associated general auto mechanical repairs, maintenance, diagnostic, tyre, clutch, brake and exhaust services for a long-standing and still-expanding, repeat and referral client base drawn from throughout a wide surrounding catchment area, with a significant volume of year-round ‘drive in’ trade generated by its excellent commercial location.

The workshop also provides a fast response emergency roadside assistance service throughout an approximate thirty mile radius of Sanquhar, and operates from premises of a size which would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with considerable scope for continued growth, and a return to previously much higher levels of turnover, not least with regard to possible investment in additional staff and to operating weekend hours in order to exploit the full potential capacity of its facilities.

The business would also benefit greatly by adopting a far more vigorous marketing policy of its excellent existing services, particularly with reference to the possible introduction of online advertising and MOT appointment booking, in order to improve upon the already high levels of turnover it has achieved in the course of some twenty-six successful years’ trading in the hands of the current proprietor, and we would strongly recommend the earliest possible viewing to avoid disappointment.

Affording easy vehicle access by means of large, full-height industrial doors, these substantial and extremely well fitted, single-storey leasehold detached commercial premises provide excellent and highly functional internal business accommodation, which briefly comprises the main, bright and spacious, open-plan garage workshop with concrete flooring, high ceiling, diffused fluorescent strip lighting throughout, tool storage racking and workbench area.

The workshop is equipped to high industry specifications with a full complement of well maintained, industry standard plant including vehicle ramps, tyre fitting and wheel balancing systems and a dedicated Class IV MOT bay with MOT ramp and full range of modern testing and diagnostic equipment, all of which we understand is to be included in the sale price, along with a fully equipped and signwritten emergency roadside assistance vehicle, and further details of which will be made available upon request to any genuine interested parties.

Accessed directly from the workshop area, or by means of its own separate public/personnel entrance, the premises also incorporate a fully furnished and equipped client reception, general administration and MOT office with seating for waiting customers, telephone and full complement of industry-specific business management systems.

Further ancillary accommodation consists of a large and fully racked general/parts store, together with access to all the usual washroom/WC facilities.

The premises also enjoy the benefit of a mains electricity power supply, in addition to the added security benefit of a full alarm system.

Externally:

Occupying an outstanding and highly visible trading position with little in the way of direct local competition just off the main central High Street of the charming and historic riverside town of Sanquhar, to the exterior the premises are well signed and incorporate a large forecourt service yard area providing private unrestricted off-road parking facilities for approximately ten vehicles.

The business is well fitted throughout and a valuable inventory of equipment is to be included in the sale price.