ATS Euromaster Servicing: What You Can Still Claim, and Where the Work Goes

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ATS Euromaster is still settling guarantee claims on work it did before it shut, and its claim form, checked on 1 October 2026, shows that five of its six categories are service and repair work rather than tyres: brakes, brake parts, oil, air and fuel filters and spark plugs; steering and suspension shocks and coils; exhausts and catalytic converters; batteries; and TPMS sensors. That is a service invoice, item by item, and the form is still live on the company's own site.

The centres themselves have gone. Servicing and MOT testing ended at all 152 UK points of sale on 1 May 2026, and ATS Euromaster Limited is winding its UK business down. Forty-nine sites reopened under other names — 35 with Formula One Autocentres and 14 with S&M Tyres Limited, trading as Elite Garages — so a good number of former ATS workshops are still turning work round, with different signs over the door and different price lists inside.

The company behind the guarantee is in better shape than a closure usually leaves one. ATS Euromaster Limited, number 04303731, was still listed as Active at Companies House on 1 October 2026, with full accounts to 31 December 2025 filed on 25 July 2026 and no strike-off, administration or liquidation filing anywhere on the record. There is a solvent company to claim against, a published form to claim on, and a statutory remedy underneath it. This page sets out what a service customer can still recover, what the evidence has to look like, and what the next garage ought to be charging.

Five of the six guarantee categories are service work

The ATS Warranties Claim Form is the only guarantee document the company still publishes, and it is a servicing document far more than a tyre one. Masterservice, the tyre scheme, is a single line on it. The other five cover brakes, brake parts, oil, air and fuel filters and spark plugs; steering and suspension, specifically shocks and coils; exhausts and catalytic converters; batteries; and TPMS sensors — between them, most of what comes off a routine interim or full service and most of what a fast-fit chain sells as a repair.

Each category sets its own evidence bar. A brake or exhaust claim needs an image of the old item clearly showing the defect or damage to the part being replaced, the original invoice, the new invoice and the new job sheet. Steering, suspension and TPMS claims need the three documents without the photograph. A battery claim needs a battery health report alongside them. Only the tyre line carries a settlement scale — free replacement at 6mm of remaining tread or more, 65% off between 4mm and 6mm, 35% between 2mm and 4mm, nothing below 2mm — and a service claim has no equivalent published ladder at all.

What a claimant is told in writing is short and worth having: the company says it is committed to honouring any valid warranty it previously provided on its goods and services, Masterservice included. Claims go to gen.uk.warranty@euromaster.com on the form. Complaints about goods or services already supplied go somewhere different — feedback@euromaster.com — and for a disputed service rather than a failed part, that second address is the one that matters.

The form sets no clock, which cuts both ways

Read the form looking for a duration and there is nothing there. Not twelve months, not 12,000 miles, not two years — no period and no mileage limit appears against any of the six categories. Compare that with a trading chain: Kwik Fit guarantees service components and other mechanical parts for 12 months or 12,000 miles, and National Tyres and Autocare publishes a minimum of two years or 24,000 miles. Against those, an unstated term is genuinely ambiguous rather than generous.

The terms that would have settled it are gone. The website is now a short closure notice and a link to the claim form, so nobody can read the duration, the exclusions or the conditions of the guarantee they are claiming under. A reader with a two-year-old service invoice has no way of knowing from any published ATS document whether the parts on it were ever covered for that long.

The practical reading is to claim and let the company say no in writing. There is no fee, the form is one document, and a refusal that quotes a term is itself evidence of what the term was. The alternative — waiting for clarity that no longer exists anywhere — runs down the statutory clock described below for nothing.

A service is not a product, and the remedies are different

This is the part most readers get wrong, because the consumer law everyone quotes is about goods. Fitting a part is a sale of goods; the labour, the diagnosis and the checks around it are a service, and Chapter 4 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 governs them separately. Section 49 writes into every service contract a term that the trader must perform the service with reasonable care and skill. Section 52 adds performance within a reasonable time where none was agreed, and section 51 a reasonable price where none was fixed.

The remedy ladder is where a closed garage changes the answer. Section 55 gives the consumer the right to require the trader to perform the service again, within a reasonable time and without significant inconvenience, with the trader bearing all the cost — and it says that right is not available where completing performance in conformity with the contract is impossible. For a workshop that shut on 1 May 2026, it is impossible by definition. Section 56 then gives the right to a price reduction instead, and sets out how it has to be paid: refunded within 14 days, by the same means the consumer used to pay, with no fee for making the refund.

So a service complaint against ATS Euromaster is a money claim rather than a put-it-right claim, and it always will be. Two backstops sit behind it and each is worth a sentence: section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 makes a credit card provider jointly liable with the trader on purchases above £100, and a debit card payment can be taken back through chargeback under the card scheme rules. Both routes answer to someone who is still trading.

Your MOT record outlived the test station

Nothing in a vehicle's MOT history is lost when the garage that carried out the tests closes, because the record was never the garage's to keep. The free service at gov.uk holds car, motorcycle and van tests from 2005 onwards — 2018 for HGVs, trailers, buses and coaches, 2017 for Northern Ireland — and shows whether each test was passed or failed, the mileage recorded when it was tested, when the next one is due, which parts failed at each test and which had minor problems. Current and previous certificates can be downloaded, and any outstanding safety recall is flagged alongside.

Where each test was done is shown too, though that detail needs the 11-digit number from the V5C log book rather than just the registration. For anyone selling a car that was looked after at an ATS branch, that matters: the mileage trail and the advisory history are the part of a service record a buyer can verify independently, and they do not depend on a stamp from a company whose workshops have shut.

Whether ATS Euromaster could update a manufacturer's digital service record is a separate question, and one that can no longer be checked — the pages that would have said so are gone, so this page does not claim an answer either way. It is worth asking the next garage directly, because on most cars sold new in the last decade there is no paper book to stamp.

What the next garage should be charging for the test

The MOT fee is capped by the state, which makes it the one price in motoring a reader can check before they ring. The maxima are £54.85 for a car with up to eight passenger seats, £64 for a class 4 vehicle with nine to twelve passenger seats including a seat belt installation check, £58.60 for a petrol, diesel or hybrid goods vehicle over 3,000kg and up to 3,500kg, and £29.65 for a motorcycle, rising to £37.80 with a sidecar. These are ceilings and not prices, so a garage quoting under them is normal and a garage quoting over them is wrong.

The cap also exposes what a bundle really costs. Where a garage prices a service with the test included, subtracting the service-only price gives the figure it is charging for the MOT, and that number can be set against £54.85 directly. It is the cleanest comparison available on a servicing page and almost nobody does it out loud.

Two deadlines are worth knowing. A vehicle's first MOT falls due on the third anniversary of registration, and a test can be taken up to a month minus a day before the current certificate expires without losing the renewal date. Driving without a valid MOT carries a fine of up to £1,000, with an exception for driving to a pre-arranged test. Supply is not the problem — Great Britain had 23,092 private MOT test stations and 222 other stations in the 2025 to 2026 financial year, with 66,925 nominated testers, so the 152 ATS sites were under one per cent of the network.

The case for booking a service and a test together sits in DVSA's own quarterly figures. In the first quarter of 2026 to 2027, April to June, 26.75% of class 3 and 4 vehicles failed at the initial test. Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment accounted for 9.98% of all tests, suspension 8.21%, tyres 6.55%, brakes 5.83% and visibility 4.40%. Bulbs, wipers, tyres and brake wear are service-sheet items, and they are where the failures come from.

The 49 sites that reopened, and what they charge now

Thirty-five former ATS centres went to Formula One Autocentres and fourteen to S&M Tyres Limited, trading as Elite Garages, with 216 staff transferring under TUPE across the 49 sites. Both buyers service cars and both took on branches with the ramps, the lifts and in many cases the same technicians already in them.

Elite Garages publishes its prices, which makes it the easier of the two to check: a standard service from £103 and a premium service from £180, with oil and filter, spark plugs where applicable, brake and clutch fluid checks, a handbrake operation and travel check, tread depths recorded and pressures reset. Its own note that additional service operations may be required for a particular make or model and will be charged at extra cost is fair warning that the figure is a floor. The branch list stood at 37 locations on 1 October 2026, across Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and the south west, a little under the 38 reported when the ATS sites were taken on in April 2026.

One caution for anyone choosing an independent over a franchised dealer. Having a car serviced outside the manufacturer's network does not cost the owner the manufacturer's warranty, and the rule that says so is British law rather than the European regulation garages still cite — the Competition Act 1998 (Motor Vehicle Agreements Block Exemption) Order 2023, SI 2023 No. 501, made on 28 April 2023, in force from 1 June 2023 and running to 31 May 2029. Elite Garages' own servicing page still explains the point by reference to European legislation. The answer it gives the customer is the right one; the authority it cites stopped being the operative one more than three years ago.

The dates on the public record worth watching

A claim against a closed company is only as good as the company's continued existence, so the register is the thing to keep an eye on. ATS Euromaster Limited's last filing was its full accounts to 31 December 2025, 46 pages, filed on 25 July 2026. Its confirmation statement is due on 26 October 2026 and its next accounts are due on 30 September 2027. It sits at SIC 45200, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, with Michelin above it through Associated Tyre Specialists (Investment) Limited.

Those two dates are the signal. A company that files its confirmation statement on time is being maintained; a company that stops filing attracts a strike-off, and once it is dissolved its assets pass to the Crown as bona vacantia and a claimant is left applying to court to restore it. Anyone sitting on an ATS invoice has a reason to act before 26 October 2026 rather than after it, whatever the limitation period technically allows.

The parent has been slower to update than the register. Michelin's UK distribution page was still describing ATS Euromaster in the present tense on 1 October 2026 — a network created in 1965 extending over 260 centres across the country, which has “become one of the leaders in the vehicle servicing in the UK” with over 50 years of experience, SafeContractor and CHAS approval from 1991 and the RoSPA Gold Award for five consecutive years between 2014 and 2018. A servicing claim in the present tense, five months after the last service was carried out. The same page is useful despite that, because it names the Michelin routes that do still work: Blackcircles, online since 2002 with a network of over 2,000 independent fitting garages, and Tructyre, with 70 centres and more than 550 qualified technicians.

Figures were taken from each provider's own published terms on 1 October 2026. Variable rates can change at any time — confirm the current rate with the provider before applying.