It concerns me that looking at all the majority of tuners, the amount of mess and chaos that seems to be in the background of photos taken.

So as the question say above, who's workshop is the cleanest?

(I work for a major automotive manufacturer, it we had that mess health and safety would shut us down)

 

workshop or engine building room.

levels of clenlyness will vary massivley between them two.

unlikely to see a mega clean workshop as its used to take oily crusty muddy shit apart 24/7.

but ive seen some mega clean rooms. but also some sheds.

cleanest engine room ive ever seen is bluesprints, its like a science lab in there.

 

Our workshops are used to take some extremely muddy vehicles apart. It never gets dirty. I just assume the tuners are too lazy to clear up.

I do agree with the engine room comment. I've been in our test rooms, prodrives and others and they are spotless, but i have seen some backstreet tuners who are seen to be high quality working in a mess.

 

Stu's @ MSD is pretty tidy.


I know who has the most untidyest on here but I would get no end of grief
if i spilt the beans.

 

ah go on. Tease them

 

Our workshop is pretty clean and tidy usually.

 

would have thought mad might be a bit clean ... as he's moving

 

c'mon dish it

 

[quote="Eagle"]would have thought mad might be a bit clean ... as he's moving [/quote

PMSL

Where's me moving too?

 

Ill second that bluesprints is ultra clean was amazed the first time i saw the place

 

paul hills workshop was pretty clean i thought

 

MSD has always been spotless when I have been there

 

clean worshops dont magically produce good motors tho.

id happily take my car to a tuner where the floor was ankle deep in human fiecies and rotting animal carcasses if they produced far better results for the money than the rest

 

theres always tea cups lying about i found aswell as pepsi max cans

 

engine advantages always seems clean to me

 

sorry to hijack the thread fella"s but iwas thinking of taking my car to engine advantages as there fairly local to me,anyone got any experience of em,good or bad(bog standard s2 BTW)

cheeRS rick e

back to topic

 

some times ppl dont have time to clean every day of the week
after workibg 18hr till 2am like i have 2nite the last think i wana do is start sweeping up grinbdibng dust rotten panels filler dust of the floor only to be made a mess on 2moz
i clean up once a week as thats only time i get
grinding welding machining turning faricating sprayin all are very dirty jobs and greate loads mess swarf etc
dont judge a book buy its cover my mate who is a proper srayer once told me if you need a spray boothe to paiNT A CAR OR LORRY YOU CARNT PAINT IN THE 1ST PLACE
a boothe is only needed for fast turn around ie bake the paint
all my cars vans have been painted in firty workshops as you call them but finiosh is far better than most spray shops with boothes
moral of the story dont judge a craftsmen by there seroundings

 

And so endeth today's lesson.

 

Mark Shead has always worked in a shit hole but who can argue that quality work is produced. Im a bit worried that his new premises will be clean .

 

Nice haircut shorty . This was taken quite a few years ago, as he is now a LOT more grey (and no longer sports a mullet) .

 

True with all this health and safety and compensation culture a messy work place is just asking for trouble if someone gets hurt

 

harveys has always been clean when ive gone there!nice people too.

 

take it to t and m autos in colchester mate,ray does a blinding job and well priced!!!! if you have a doubt ask nikki off here. he is an old boys who,s been in the rally scene for years and knows his shit on all sorts.

 

APT has always been fairly tidy when ever i have been there, and PE also,


Paul Hills was not to bad,

Ray Mason's was a messy pit, but then look at the size of it,


Mike

 

Brom
is that your excuse for working in a shit hole you never were too good at tidying up and putting stuff away
Cleanest palce i have ever seen is Tremona Garage in Southhampton,but I must have get the tidyest breakers award

 

Danny B workshop is very clean and even his toilet and kitchen are spotless

 

as pete has said tremona garage.

by a long way!

think you will struggle to find a cleaner workshop!

and there standard of work goes with it.

 

I was always impressed with how TurboSystems was kept. I wouldn't say it was immaculate, but I don't see how a working workshop can be, they were always exceptionally careful in they way they worked around the cars and moved them.

And organised too. I picked my car up once and dashed off after work taking some tools with me in the engine bay. Took them back and Tony knew which tools were missing and where they were in my engine bay. How he knew that from sitting in his little office on his computer drinking tea and shouting at people down the phone I don't know.

 

pete does have a very tidy breakers yard

SCC is clean and tidy

 

My workshop is spotless. I've just painted it, and haven't actually done any work in it yet

 

Cleanest workshop ever has to be a place called RGS Motorsport in Wellingborough. I went there about 8 years ago and the workshop floor was varnished, solid wood and totally spotless.

 

id never judge a garage on the state of the place more on the work they produce
main dealers etc always have modern spotless workshops but your usually paying for this in the redicoulous labour charges and parts prices lol .doesnt mean there actually any better than the smelly pikey who fixes cars from his driveway

 

fuk off pumkin you pikey cunt

the work i do now makes loads more mess than stripping a car that takes 3 hrs to do
like i said grinding and welding cars makes loads shite dust etc so when i finish at 2 am nearly last thing i wana do is clean up when i was up 5am that morning
my cleaning day is every sunday tools are al;ways locked away every nite just crap on the floor
now let me go and make some mess

 

Pikey LOL thats rich coming from a dirty diesel fitter,even you mum says your a messy fucker

 

always had great service at ea i would deffo take my car to him without a doubt there is another tuner in essex thaty well know that i certainlly wouldnt

 

Yeah bet they have a right laugh there




ITS THE QUALITY OF WORK THAT COUNTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

like who?

like alot have said, id rather take my car to whoever is the best, not who is the cleanest...


thats why i do most of it myself


or if i cant be arsed then i take it to Jamsport for them to do it

they may not be the cleanest place mentioned, but who gives a fuck about that?

 

Just had a couple of mates who have been to what is seen to be reputable and they've had problems with cleanliness, i.e. foreign objects in places where they should be.

I'm not naming anyone as I'm not out to slag anyone, it was just a light hearted post after seeing some of the workshop photos in mags and on websites.

It might be true that some of the best work comes from workshops that might not be the tidiest, but it reduces my confidence thats all.