Marchmont's grand tenements are packed with students, so the kerbs fill with cheap, many-owner Fiestas and Corsas doing little beyond a Meadows-side run. Those PureTech and EcoBoost engines change hands often, and with each owner the paperwork thins further. Nobody can say when the wet belt was last touched, if ever. A short-hopping student car with an unknown belt history is a snap waiting to happen, with no warning before it fails.
Areas our Marchmont specialists cover: Bruntsfield, The Meadows, Newington, Sciennes, Grange, Warrender, Whitehouse — and the wider Edinburgh area.
Many-owner student cars carry threadbare service records, so the belt's true age is a complete unknown until it lets go.