Brits spend 37M days a year looking for a garage, experts say

Data shows that men spend longer looking for a garage than women

Brits spend 37M days a year looking for a garage, experts say
Click Mechanic say ten per cent of Brits have their cars serviced more than once a year. Image: BigStock.

New research by online car repair marketplace, Click Mechanic, has revealed that Brits lose 893,461,500 hours – that’s more than 37 million days – every year trying to find a garage or mechanic to fix their car.

By the end of March 2016 there were 36.7 million vehicles licensed for use on GB roads, more than 900,000 had registered in that single first quarter of the year alone.

According to Click Mechanic’s research, men are the greatest deliberators, with 16 per cent of males taking a whole day to book their car into a garage, verses only three per cent of females.

Of the 1,000 people surveyed, only 23 per cent were likely to get a single quote for the work needed, with 18-24 year olds being the most likely to shop around; almost a third within that age group said that they would spend time calling multiple mechanics.

23 per cent of those surveyed had needed to get their car repaired at least twice in the last three years.

While over a third of drivers said that they had their car serviced annually for the last three years, more than a quarter had only had it serviced once in the same time period.

Click Mechanic co-founder, Andrew Jervis said: “We all rely on our vehicles to get around in the UK, so the problem with repairs is that you can sometimes feel like you’re at the mercy of whichever mechanic can fit you in.

“It’s easy to imagine prices being hiked because the mechanic knows that you need them – very few operate that way, but it can be hard to shake the feeling for some drivers.

“That’s why so many people spend time shopping around.”

Click Mechanic enables drivers to instantly get an industry standard quote online for the work they require.

They can then book in with one of Click Mechanic’s vetted mechanics from across the UK.

To find out more about Click Mechanic, follow the ‘more details’ link below.

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