Independent service stations in Russia occupy the third part of car service

According to a recent survey of the experts of the analytical agency "AUTOSTAT" ("Car service Market in Russia"), independent service stations already occupy 32% of the total number of points of service centers in Russia. Independent services are not related by agreements with manufacturers, which permit to determine a set of services and pricing. The production capacity of such centres begins from 2-3 posts and it reaches the sizes of quite large centers that compete with authorized dealers in the spectrum of services, a set of diagnostic equipment and plumbing, as well as staff.

However, analysts pointed out that in view of local conditions (geographical location, age and brand structure of parc, climatic conditions, category and condition of the road surface) the correlation between the independent stations, official stations and highly specialized service points are different in each region. For example, in Moscow and Moscow region the share of independent service stations is 31.1%, in the Krasnodar region - only 18.6%.