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  • 22-07-2015 11:25pm
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    kevinkmb36
    Registered Users Posts: 137 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I passed Des kennedys auto electrician in garryowen over last few weeks and everytime i passed, the garage was closed...
    does any one know if he has moved to another premises or has he closed for good?


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    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,147 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Gone on summer vacation perhaps?


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    893bet
    Registered Users Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭893bet


    If you are stuck there is an auto electrician in the city centre. Drive up top of o connel street. Take a left just after the church (I think its St josephs?, there is scaffold on it currently). Then take a left again immediately to bring you behind the church. There is a little yard there with a diesel mechanic, an auto electrician etc. He sorted out the starter in my car last week as Des was missing.


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    mgbgt1978
    Registered Users Posts: 4,230 ✭✭✭mgbgt1978


    The guy off Joseph Street mainly does starters and alternators. He doesn't do any other auto-electrical work.
    Alternatives would be Christy Madden (Eastlink business Park....behind the now closed O'Mara Toyota Dealers) or John O'Shea (Dock Road....waaayy in behind Mid-West Tyres).


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    kevinkmb36
    Registered Users Posts: 137 ✭✭kevinkmb36


    Hi guys,
    tks for the replies.
    i don't need to anything at the moment, but have got few bits done there before and found him very good...hope he is not closed for good..


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    mgbgt1978
    Registered Users Posts: 4,230 ✭✭✭mgbgt1978


    Just as an update to this.
    I was talking to a chap who lives across the road from Des's place. He is pretty sure that he is gone abroad to visit his son and should be back within a week or so. He told me that Des never puts a note on the door or anything..........if he's open, he's open :).


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    kevinkmb36
    Registered Users Posts: 137 ✭✭kevinkmb36


    tks for the reply.
    the place is closed still anyways,,,hopefully its just holidays he is on anyways...


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    daveob007
    Registered Users Posts: 982 ✭✭✭daveob007


    out sick,,hoping to be back in the new year.


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    johnnyryan89
    Registered Users Posts: 8,736 ✭✭✭johnnyryan89


    Heard that he's retired and the place is closed, he had a by pass done during the summer.

    Neighbour of mine was saying that the chap who used to work for him has opened his own place from the back of his house in the area behind United Drug and that Des is own nephew has opened his own place up out near Slater's garage in Thomandgate.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Given that it's coming on 36 years since he did this to Real Madrid, surely the man's got to have at least one eye on retirement by now.



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    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,147 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Yep, legend.


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    phog
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    Slightly off topic

    I got a dash cam for Xmas which is powered via the 12v plug (cigarette lighter). Is there anyone in town who'd wire it via the ignition, somewhere that wouldn't charge an arm or leg for it.


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    orm0nd
    Registered Users Posts: 4,178 ✭✭✭orm0nd


    phog wrote: »
    Slightly off topic

    I got a dash cam for Xmas which is powered via the 12v plug (cigarette lighter). Is there anyone in town who'd wire it via the ignition, somewhere that wouldn't charge an arm or leg for it.

    maybe christy madden,

    think it's eastlink business park


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    eyebrows63
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭eyebrows63


    phog wrote: »
    Slightly off topic

    I got a dash cam for Xmas which is powered via the 12v plug (cigarette lighter). Is there anyone in town who'd wire it via the ignition, somewhere that wouldn't charge an arm or leg for it.

    Try the man behind the shamrock Chinese on the Ennis road.
    Went to him a few times and found him to be good.


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    panda100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,551 ✭✭✭panda100


    Off topic as well but anyone know where I can get my leaky shock absorbers fixed/changed for the NCT. I haven't had the best luck with mechanics in Limerick. They always seem to overcharge me.


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    johnnyryan89
    Registered Users Posts: 8,736 ✭✭✭johnnyryan89


    panda100 wrote: »
    Off topic as well but anyone know where I can get my leaky shock absorbers fixed/changed for the NCT. I haven't had the best luck with mechanics in Limerick. They always seem to overcharge me.

    Give Brendan Butler a shout, have used him for a few years now and find his work top notch. He's located in the park area just off the Dublin road on the road which runs behind Musgraves and David Meades place.


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    Pandiani
    Registered Users Posts: 417 ✭✭Pandiani


    Appears to be open again, was open this morning and another day last week when I passed garage.


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    homingbird
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    panda100 wrote: »
    Off topic as well but anyone know where I can get my leaky shock absorbers fixed/changed for the NCT. I haven't had the best luck with mechanics in Limerick. They always seem to overcharge me.

    Hi is it front or back shock as it makes a difference price wise regarding labour,


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    colmmcgettrick
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭colmmcgettrick


    Just thought I would add a reply to the original question, I just dropped into him for some advice,
    and he said himself, that the best time to catch him at present would be in the morning.

    All the best

    C


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