Car dealership to close due to ‘difficult trading conditions’ as they offer to help PAY customers to use another branch

A POPULAR car dealership located connected the Isle of Wight is acceptable to adjacent adjacent month, meaning customers volition beryllium forced to question to the mainland to work their vehicles.

Snows Car Centre, located connected Forest Road, Newport, volition adjacent connected 5 February 2025.

With conscionable a fewer weeks to spell earlier they unopen their doors, Snows is present encouraging its customers to caput to their nearest subdivision situated successful Portsmouth - adjacent offering to assistance wage for question expenses.

As reported by the County Press, Snows wrote a missive to customers claiming their Forest Road tract closed owed to "difficult trading conditions successful the automotive manufacture and a important summation successful moving costs."

Dianna MacKinnon, the company’s Head of Business, added that the branch's operations were nary longer feasible.

To guarantee their customers acquisition a creaseless modulation to their Portsmouth branch, they are adjacent offering assistance.

This includes covering the outgo of transport arsenic good arsenic a 20 per cent discount connected labour for future work oregon repair jobs.

A Snows lawsuit said: "Snows are trying to promote land customers to spell to Portsmouth.

"I've decided to find different garage, but obviously, if there's a occupation with the car, it volition astir apt mean a travel over.

"For me, it's a spot inconvenient but for others, it whitethorn beryllium much than that.

"It's been specified a abrupt thing, there's been nary accidental for anyone to program anything."

In a statement, Snows said: "Due to hard trading conditions successful the automotive manufacture and a important summation successful moving costs, we person reached a constituent wherever continuing to run an outlet connected the land is nary longer feasible."

"It is with regret that we volition adjacent Snows Isle of Wight connected 5 February 2025.

“We are successful consultation with affected unit members, and wherever imaginable volition question to find them alternate opportunities wrong the company.

"We stay committed to supporting our land customers from our mainland dealerships successful Portsmouth and Southampton and convey our land customers for their loyalty implicit the years."

This comes aft a motorcycle dealership closed down abruptly this week aft facing “ongoing fiscal challenges”.

A subdivision of Blade Motorcycles, located connected Elgin Drive successful Swindon, abruptly closed its doors, stating it had go “unfeasible to continue”.

The motorcycle shop, owned by the Heritage Automotive Group, was established successful 1995.

The dealership represents 8 motorcycle brands, including Ducati, Harley-Davidson, Honda, Suzuki, Triumph, and Yamaha.

It besides served a ample proportionality of marques, servicing and selling bikes from galore of the brands mentioned above.

The Swindon tract was besides the closest to different Blade Motorcycles dealership, with the Abingdon subdivision conscionable 25 miles away.