Formula One Autocentres - Fareham Reviews Summary

Category: Tire shop

Address: 154 Fareham Rd, Gosport, PO13 0AS, United Kingdom

Phone: +441329280000

Rating: 4.2
based on 124 reviews.

Customer Service

Pros:

  • "Excellent customer service from a young, knowledgeable team."
  • "Yet again incredible service and so efficient this must be the best garage for repairs and MOT's for miles around."
  • "Just got my mot done there today and very happy with the service."
  • "Service is friendly and efficient."
  • "All of the staff were friendly, their communication about what needed doing was excellent and I thought gave great value for money."
  • "Really lovely guys who were more than happy to answer all the questions I had."
  • "Professional, pleasant and friendly service."

Cons:

  • "Booked in for a set of tires 2 weeks ago turned up and was told I was early then they told me I wasn't booked in at all."
  • "Unfortunately, I had the worst experience ever... They even tried to blame me that we were actually late for the appointment."
  • "Can't be trusted to change a light bulb!!"
  • "Abrasive customer services, not a nice experience, I will not be back."
  • "If there was an option to give zero stars, I absolutely would... Such a lapse indicates either utter carelessness or incompetence on the part of the mechanics."
  • "Very poor customer service and rude staff. The guy didn't even apologize and just argued."
  • "Staff not friendly at all."

Pricing and Value

Pros:

  • "Price matching service meant I could search for the best price and the local F1 centre matched the price."
  • "I’m well overdue writing a review for this branch of Formula One. Visited quite a few times and I’ve always been pleased with the price and service."
  • "Prices remain reasonable."
  • "I use F1 Auto for new tyres simply because they are the cheapest for brand name performance tyres."
  • "Tyres were inflated to the manufacturer's spec as well rather than something random so nice attention to detail there."
  • "I did a lot of research and couldn't get these tyres fitted cheaper anywhere else."
  • "Excellent team. Very happy with the price."

Cons:

  • "Miss quoted took time off work booked a week in advance."
  • "40 minutes to take off 2 wheels is pretty crazy!"
  • "Got there in the morning to get my tyres changed... but what wasn't fine was waiting an hour and 15 minutes instead of half an hour."
  • "Ordered 2 Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 3 at £124.90 each got one Asymmetric 3 and one Asymmetric 5... they are going to change them to a pair of Asymmetric 5 but the Asymmetric 5 is actually cheaper by about £15.00 each."
  • "Really good for tyres here, but I wouldn’t recommend anything else had a £1000 MOT here including an oil change which ended up leaking from the oil filter housing most likely due to over tightening of the filter a £200 fix at another garage."
  • "Got a quote for over £400 for discs and pads even though the car passed an MOT 3 weeks ago with no advisories."
  • "Will not be returning... 1 hour to change 2 tires."

Booking and Scheduling

Pros:

  • "Called late on Saturday asking for a new exhaust. They booked me in first thing Tuesday and had my car back to me by lunch."
  • "Phoned up yesterday to get a price on a tyre. Happy with the quote it was booked in for 08:30 the following morning. I arived at 08:25 and was seen at 08:30 ish."
  • "As always I received excellent service from the friendly team at the Fareham/Gosport store. I used the online booking and payment service which was very easy to do."
  • "I booked my MOT online and the whole process was very straight forward and simple."
  • "Went for an MoT before the end of the current certificate and the mechanic took the trouble to check that I really did want it done early. The MoT was then done swiftly and at the scheduled time."
  • "Brought 2 tyres from an online company with formula 1 to fit, turned up 10 mins before the appointment, car was straight in tyres fitted and back on the road in less than half hour."
  • "Fantastic customer service. Had to rearrange due to unforeseen circumstances 3 hours Before my service."

Cons:

  • "When I arrived there was no one at the reception... stood there for a few minutes as if I wasn’t there before he finally acknowledged me."
  • "Booked tyre replacement on a certain date with an AM option, only to be told they can't fit me in till early afternoon."
  • "Unfortunately was made to wait an hour and half for a quick job to get tyre changed...."
  • "Appalling. Two year old 4x4 - going to mainland Europe and as such needed winter tyres fitted. Booked for Sunday just gone, they didn’t bother to tell me they could not do the work until I was in the office waiting at the counter."
  • "Only downside was time keeping and a delay to them starting the work (maybe 45mins) even though I’d booked in a week before."
  • "No advance warning or updates on running late only a sorry at the end."
  • "Poor customer service. Was told they couldn’t see me until 11:30 even though my appointment was 9:30-10:30."

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