Hello and Welcome to the Home of Car Talk.

 My name is Shane and I have been living in Spain for a little over ten years. Our main aim at Car Talk is to offer you good honest affordable work at reasonable prices; we're the old school, we don't adopt the new style attitude of changing everything, we repair things, not simply change everything in turn, saving our customers money.

I come from Aldershot, Hampshire and I have been in the trade for getting on 25 years now. After finishing my apprenticeship at David Matias Renault dealership in Aldershot, I then started to work for myself as a mobile mechanic and that's where I really started to learn about cars. I have had my garage here at Villajoyosa, near Benidorm, for over five years now. When I came to Spain I fancied a change and tried various things before I soon realised that I was missing the job I loved best and also finding it difficult to find a decent garage that spoke English, I soon realized that there was a gap in the market and I knew that my services and experience was much needed in the area.

I came up with the concept of Car Talk, the motoring problem page which you can read every week in the Round Town News or read online at the Round Town News website. Also you can listen to our radio chat every week on Ondercero, 94.6 fm, with me and Vince Tracey.  I have been doing the newspaper and radio for over five years and I feel that is a good testament to the honesty and reliability of my business.

Also I work closely with other businesses to offer a very complex service. I, myself concentrate on my garage where, we can carry out any job on any vehicle, no job to small or to large. Geroni takes care of the body shop and has over 30 years experience, his body shop turns out quality workmanship. You can also rent a car from any were in the world at amazingly low prices check it out for your self. You can insure your car also at Dragon Insurance, from a personal view I find them the best insurance company around and Andy there is a great guy. Nick and Lance take care of the car sales they're two people that I trust and that's saying something about car sales men! Mark is the man for second hand car spares, if he hasn't got it he will get it for you. Last but not least Jesus at Aligruer, who is also the agent for Mapfre insurance company, takes care of all our break down work. Basically we all work together as a close team and although all our businesses are separately owned, all in all we're a force to be reckoned with.

 Thanks for your time, your comments about the website are more than welcome and don't forget to introduce yourself to our message board.

 All the best, Shane.