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About Grove Garage

Grove Garage of Weybridge, off Princes Road, in Grove Place is just down the side of the Jolly Farmer pub. Established for some 40 years (formerly known as Greyhound Garage), it is now run by Alexander Abadzis, a long established Citroen Peugeot specialist, who took it over in 2000 from Sid Sillience.

Alex, although a French car fanatic, services all makes of vehicles, carries out MOT prep work, welding, cam belts, clutches, batteries, exhausts, and well, just about anything to do with motor vehicles.

Because of his expertise, during the summer of 2004, he had the good fortune to work alongside Art Director Stuart Rose on the Hollywood remake of the film 'Charlie & The Chocolate Factory', with Jonny Depp as 'Wonka', directed by Tim Burton. This involved supplying and co-ordinating 108 cars, trucks and motorcycles for the Action Vehicle Department.

Filming took place at Pinewood Studios and the film was premiered in late July 2005. Alex also does some acting himself, on a part-time basis, aside from running Grove Garage.

Alex and his colleague Nick Butcher, who runs the bodyshop side of operaions, and who also worked on 'Charlie' as Bodyshop Chief, pride themselves on an ethos of 'village style' garage with a personable and reliable service, where you deal directly with the engineer working on your vehicle, and not with a secretary.

They can cater for your every motoring need, including custom designs and fabrication at reasonable rates. Collection and delivery locally is also not a problem.