MONTH 2017 AFTERMARKET 3 www.aftermarketonline.net MARCH 2024 AFTERMARKET 5 Enter Top Garage now! Business owners and managers are flooding onto the Top Tech/Top Garage site to register and take the first round for Top Garage in order to get ahead of the closing date on Friday 19 April. Have you done it yet? For Top Garage, businesses compete in sizebased classes and for the Ben Health and Wellbeing Award, while individual staff members compete for Top Service Advisor. A new addition for 2024 has also arrived in the form of the Mobile Mechanic class. The in-person Top Garage finals are being held on Saturday 26 October at Delphi Academy, at the same time as the Top Tech finals. Winners will be named at the Top Technician and Top Garage Awards Evening, being held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Coventry. Winners will receive big prizes including cash, tools and equipment. For Top Technician and Top Garage 2023, the total prize fund was in excess of £40,000. To enter Top Technician or Top Garage 2024, visit www.toptechtopgarage.co.uk click on the appropriate tab, and follow the instructions. Top Technician and Top Garage 2024 come to you in association with the Garage Equipment Association (GEA), the Independent Automotive Aftermarket Federation (IAAF) and the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI). Full Event Partners: Snap-on, TOPDON, JLM Lubricants UK and Delphi. To hear more from Top Technician and Top Garage 2024 Full Event Partners JLM Lubricants UK, turn to page 20-21. New BookMyGarage marketing package launched BookMyGarage has launched a marketing package for independent garages. The company’s new Accelerate programme has been developed from the company’s SecretService offering, which was launched for franchise workshops four years ago. Accelerate provides garages with a priority position in BookMyGarage listings as well as brand advertising on search engines. It also includes a Facebook page, with three dedicated Facebook posts per week and co-ordinates with the GMS system built into BookMyGarage, as well as other garage management diary systems. BookMyGarage Co-Founder Karen Rotberg said: “We are both proud and excited to launch Accelerate, our first new product release for independent garages in five years.” For more information, visit: www.bookmygarage.com Full Event Partners: HEVRA support widens HEVRA has added Dacia to the range of brands for which it provides EV support, which takes the total for the organisation to 40 marques. Other brands added in recent months to HEVRA's list of supported manufacturers include Abarth and Alfa Romeo. Following the updates, HEVRA's database now covers 136 fully EVs, with a further 225 hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and range extender models. HEVRA Technical Director Peter Melville commented: "These developments further strengthen our position as a leading provider of repair and maintenance information, empowering automotive professionals with the knowledge they need to deliver exceptional service to their customers." For more information, visit: https://hevra.org.uk/ For Aftermarket’s EVs and hybrids feature, turn to pages 45-47. www.aftermarketonline.net NEWS In association with:
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