Garage Near Old Catton, Norwich

Old Catton drivers are three miles from a genuinely full-service garage: Norwich Tyres & Auto Service at 100-106 Ber Street, Norwich. One workshop covering tyres, brakes, exhausts, suspension, servicing, diagnostics, batteries and air-con, on all makes of car, van and 4x4, petrol, diesel, hybrid or electric. We are open six days a week from 8am and on Sundays from 10am, with free on-site parking and a comfortable waiting area. Nine minutes down the road, everything sorted in one place, and a 3-month or 3,000-mile guarantee on all workmanship.

The whole car handled, three miles from Old Catton

Splitting your car's needs across a tyre shop, a fast-fit chain and a dealership means three bookings, three journeys and nobody seeing the whole picture. Our workshop exists to collapse all of that into one stop. Whatever combination your car needs this month - a service and two tyres, or brakes plus an air-con regas before summer - we do it in a single visit and hand you a single invoice.

Having everything in-house also improves the work itself. When our technicians service a car they are not blinkered to one system; they will notice the tyre wearing on its inner edge and can check the geometry in the same building rather than writing "advise alignment elsewhere" on the sheet. Our wheel alignment service for Old Catton is a good example: it is the follow-on job for half the tyre wear we spot, and being able to do it there and then saves NR6 drivers a second trip entirely.

All makes and models are welcome, from superminis to vans and 4x4s, and hybrid and electric vehicles are handled routinely, not treated as exotic.

Fitting around school runs and Saturday shops

We know how an Old Catton week works: drop-offs at nine, pick-ups at three, the big shop at the weekend, and no obvious gap in which to be without the car. So we built the garage around that reality rather than expecting you to bend around ours.

Opening at 8am means the car can be with us before the school run finishes, and most routine work is done in time for afternoon collection. Saturday opening covers the jobs that will not fit in the week, and Sunday hours from 10am to 4pm catch the problems that surface at the worst possible moment. Free parking on site makes drop-off painless, and if you are waiting for a quick job, the waiting area is comfortable rather than a plastic chair by the till.

Booking is simple: phone 07933 900901, tell us the symptom or the job, and we will slot you in. We confirm prices after inspection and before work begins, so the figure you approve is the figure you pay. Cash and all major cards accepted, and the 3-month or 3,000-mile workmanship guarantee applies to everything that leaves the ramp.

One inspection, one list in order of urgency

Stop-start driving between the school gates, the supermarkets and Aylsham Road is hard on brakes and clutches, and kerbside parking around Catton Park is hard on wheels and tyre sidewalls. Take that mix to three specialists and each will find something in their own department, and none will tell you which matters most. At Ber Street the car goes through a single inspection instead: a free visual brake check with pads and discs measured, a feel of the clutch bite and any judder, tyre sidewalls examined for kerb damage, and a digital conductance test on the battery.

What you get back is one list in order of urgency, with the worn parts shown to you before anything is quoted. A tyre with a bulge from a kerb strike is dealt with today; pads with plenty of material left are noted for the next visit rather than sold now. Because wheel balancing is computerised and done here, an alloy that has thrown a weight against the kerb is corrected in the same slot. Brake pads start from around £60 per axle, and all the workmanship carries the 3-month or 3,000-mile guarantee.

Getting to Ber Street from Old Catton with your list

Old Catton to our door is about three miles, south down Spixworth Road or Catton Grove Road, through the city and onto Ber Street, which takes 10 to 12 minutes on a normal morning. There is free parking on site, so drop-off is quick even with a pushchair in the boot. If brakes are the reason for the visit, note whether the noise comes on light or firm braking and whether the pedal pulses, because that helps us go straight to the cause. If you have clipped a kerb, look at the tyre sidewall before you drive in; a visible bulge means fitting the spare rather than driving on it.