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Palmeira Bodyworks and Servicing
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79out of 100
Rating5.0★
Review volume82
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Verified garage / vehicle services in Hove, East Sussex.
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5.0out of 5
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"Palmeria BW and Serving were completely brilliant today. I had pulled the back panel off my car when parking and it had broken the clips. They stopped the work they were doing on another car, fixed the panel whilst I waited and did not charge me for the job. Could not believe how amazing they were. I will definitely be returning to them now for MOT or any other work needed."
"My fiesta failed its MOT as this fault was considered to weaken the structure. The job required five hours of work and though the car is an 09 registration, and this was not a very visible location, they took a lot of trouble over the finishing. When taking it back to the MOT garage for a retest they seemed very impressed with quality of the work."
"Excellent! After a terrible week of my nan passing away and then being made redundant, I managed to hit a bollard quite badly. Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but the last thing I needed. I went for a quote and was given what I expect was a very fair one, but way out of my budget at the moment. The person I saw very kindly buffed out what he could and made it all look a whole lot better and advised what I could do in the meantime until I could afford to get it fixed. This kindness was appreciated so much! I would not hesitate to take my car here in the future. Thank you."
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Palmeria BW and Serving were completely brilliant today. I had pulled the back panel off my car when parking and it had broken the clips. They stopped the work they were doing on another car, fixed the panel whilst I waited and did not charge me for the job. Could not believe how amazing they were. I will definitely be returning to them now for MOT or any other work needed.
My fiesta failed its MOT as this fault was considered to weaken the structure. The job required five hours of work and though the car is an 09 registration, and this was not a very visible location, they took a lot of trouble over the finishing. When taking it back to the MOT garage for a retest they seemed very impressed with quality of the work.
Excellent! After a terrible week of my nan passing away and then being made redundant, I managed to hit a bollard quite badly. Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but the last thing I needed. I went for a quote and was given what I expect was a very fair one, but way out of my budget at the moment. The person I saw very kindly buffed out what he could and made it all look a whole lot better and advised what I could do in the meantime until I could afford to get it fixed. This kindness was appreciated so much! I would not hesitate to take my car here in the future. Thank you.
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