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21 Years of "Ace" Auto Services

Of course that's not how we started out, on May the 11th 1987 Paul Green and Myself (Adam Skinner) opened our doors as Ace Tyre. We sold every type of tyre from a wheel barrow up to an earthmover, in fact the majority of our work came from building sites and lorries in and around Nottingham.

For Those of you who knew Paul Green, he left and moved, first to France and then to Florida where he and his wife Peg now own a successful pool cleaning company.

We worked well until the early ninety's when the bottom dropped out of the housing market and overnight people stopped building houses (If you can't sell them, no point in building them). Ace was forced to change direction and after some staff changes and training, started to do mechanical work.

My wife Christine became a partner and we changed the name to Ace Tyre & Auto to better reflect the type of work we did, Ace became more and more mechanical and less and less tyres.

On the 8th March 1997 we had a major fire that put my son Mark in hospital with 2nd and 3rd degree burns and left the garage gutted. After a lot of hard work by Christine, Roy, Jonathon & myself, against everything we were being told, we re-opened in May the same year (no one thought it was possible). Thankfully Mark recovered well from his injuries and is still working with me, only going to prove that miracles do happen, looking at the pictures of the garage just after the fire, you wonder how he survived. Jonathon has since moved on but still visits from time to time.

Our gratitude goes to everyone who helped us through that difficult time. and especially to the dedicated staff at the Specialist Burns Unit in Nottingham's City Hospital.

In 2000 we closed down the old Ace and opened a totally new Ace, and had our final re-birth as,

ACE AUTO SERVICES

Now tyres account for some 10 - 15% of our business with the vast majority of our work coming from everything from head gaskets to oil changes, clutches and servicing to brakes. We still do tyres, punctures & tracking but only car & light commercial (van) Our motto has become If they can build it we can mend it.