The team at Ferris Garage in Truro

Tim is a fully qualified technician, all be it from the late 70’s early 80’s. He learnt his trade in Truro at the British Leyland garage and became Jaguar technician. He returned to the family business in 1985 first as a technician and eventually managing director.

Qualifications

• City & Guilds
• National Craftsman

Mary joined the business in 1994 after a career in retail, firstly looking after the wages and now on all aspects of the accounts.

Toby joined Ferris Garage in 2008, his training was at the local Nissan main dealer and specialises in diagnostics for conventional petrol, diesel engines as well as Hybrid and fully electric management systems and air conditioning. He is Tim’s ‘right hand man’

Qualifications

• City & Guilds
• Safe Handling of Refrigerants Automotive
• Exponentia Diagnostics Advanced
• Exponentia Diagnostics Diesel control
• IMI Licentiate
• Air Con Refrigeration handling
• DSCD1 Delphi Diesel Diagnostic Level 1
• Selection & Mounting of Abrasive Wheels
• Bosch VSD16 Unit Injection Diagnosis
• Bosch VSB 8 Airbag & Supplementary Safety Systems
• EVT4 (electric and hybrid vehicles)

Mike is our main MOT tester and Quality Controller for MOT’s. He started with us in 2004 as a breakdown technician but now specialises in servicing, brakes, clutch’s, suspension and engine repairs.

Qualifications

• IVR Light Recovery Course
• City & Guilds
• National Highways Sector Scheme VR05 (Underlift)
• MOT tester
• Air Con Refrigeration handling
• DSCD1 Delphi Diesel Diagnostic Level 1
• Petrol Engine Management (Delphi)
• Essential Electrics (Delphi)
• EV4 (electric & Hybrid) (highest qualification)

Brandon joined us in 2016 after completing his apprenticeship locally.

Qualifications

• MOT tester
• OCR level 2 Problem solving
• IMIAL level 3 in light vehicle maintenance & repairs
• BSC entry level award in workplace hazard awareness
• Wiring diagram Interpretation
• Air Con Refrigeration handling
• EV2 (electric & Hybrid)

Gary is our valetor and collects and delivers cars for us.

He also keeps the workshop/forecourt clean and the 2nd man for MOT testing

Josh joined us on 14th August 2019 as our apprentice. He has completed a three year course with training blocks (usually a week at a time) at ProVQ in Telford one of the top automotive training centres in the UK.

He is continuing training and will be  EV4 trained early next year.

Qualifications

• MOT tester
• Air Con Refrigeration handling
• First Aid at work
• Motor vehicle service & maintenance technician (light) Level 3 (distinction)
• EV2 (electric & Hybrid)

Isaac joined us in 2021 due to a further increase in work levels. He will be trained by Pro-VQ in Telford in petrol, diesel, hybrid and fully electric vehicle technology. He is now NVQ level 2

He is currently working towards his NVQ Level 3