DO NOT USE THIS GARAGE 3months ago I brought a car from this garage. I live in dorset so rang the garage up, the guy dealing with me was very helpful said I could put a deposit down to secure the car so I did. I wanted to trade in my car as well so he done a couple of checks online and said they would offer me £500. When arrived at the garage the car I was buying was parked outside it has a few scratches on it and a small hole in the rear light cover but these didn't put me off as the car was 3 years old. We took it for a test drive and the car ran lovely. Whilst out on a test drive the garage had my car up on the ramps giving it a full inspection before I traded it in. We got back off the test drive and they tried to offer me scrap value of £100 for my focus as apparently my exhaust was blowing, my drive shaft wasn't screwed in properly so it could snap, a bold tyre and a few other things, the list was endless. We knew full well none of this was true apart from the tyre, it wasn't bold but could of done with changing. Anyway my car now is in audi with a list of things wrong with it and the bill is going to be near enough £3000. My partner rang a1 ortos and told them what's happened and all they could say was that my 3 month gaurantee was up Wednesday so they couldn't help as my car was going in the garage the following Wednesday. PLEASE DO NOT BUY FROM THIS GARAGE!!!

I purchased a subaru impreza wrx from a1. I decided to take the car to my local and trusted dealer for a once over. Bearing in mind a1 mot'd and serviced the car prior to collection. The local garage found numerous faults and MOT failures galore. Illegal tyres, brakes were faulty, wishbone was damaged too. Car had also had some accident damage that I missed when viewing. I'd avoid this dealer and stick to a main dealer, or supermarket. Also worth mentioning that their free 3 year service and MOT is simply an oil and filter change only, not a full service

I've just read a load of negative reviews, you will get that with anything, everybody had different expectations. I bought a suzuki swift sport from them in feb 13, the car was as described and very tidy. Only one thing is that they put a full MOT on the car and it was found to have an excessively worn ball joint on the front wish bone. I just presumed it rattled because it wasn't built solid like my previous car a VW golf. So I decided to buy a set if POWERFLEX bushes for the front end to stiffen it up. While having these professionally fitted that's when it came to my local garages attention that it was the ball joint making all the noise. Now rather than take it on a 50min journey back and fuel costs I ordered my mechanic to purchase 2 brand new wishbones withe new ball joints and insert my new uprated Powerflex bushes into these. The car then felt like it should to drive, nice and tight without any banging and rattling. My battery was also found to be on it's last legs.

wow, had car 1 week, leaks started, too it back, sure they used chewing gum to seal it, took morning of work to take back to them! had to wait because of all the other complaints that were being made, whilst I was there. Was told it's not leaking, well it didn't for all of 52 seconds the poured out again. (chewing gum). refused to take it back for their alleged free M.O.T/service they just lie and B.S you constantly, sales men are crap, asked a question about the car! couldn't answer it! Only asked what the rotating dial was for in the center of the dash, told me for air vents, hahahaha was air freshener. I also wrote a review on Qype a while back! but they seem to be in cahoots with them, as they only publish 5* reviews (generic). Another dissatisfied customer contacted me through Qype and said " Qype keep removing their review of A1 ortos" convenient. A1 told me 3rd party did M.O.T??? I had to change 3 tyre 2 warped disks and all pads within 3 months. Should of been under warranty, b