Trident Honda

It is almost three months into our Site Merger and our ex-Weybridge staff have settled into Ottershaw really well.

Our commercial director and dealer principal, Steve Henderson, writes:

We have been overwhelmed by the support of our Weybridge customers, with the result that we currently have a slightly longer lead time than we would want. We are working very hard to reduce our current lead time and have recruited two additional technicians and are looking to recruit still more.

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Trident Weybridge was officially opened by Philip Hammond, MP for Runnymede and Weybridge, on (date unknown). Trident acquired the site in 1996 and have now completed a complete demolition and redevelopment.

It has now been confirmed that our last normal day of trading at Weybridge will be Thursday 2 April, although our Sales Department will be open for reduced hours on Friday 3 and Saturday 4 April.

From 5 April the site will still be in use by a skeleton staff for a week or two, whilst our Ottershaw workshop redevelopment is completed, but all customer enquiries should be directed to our Ottershaw branch from that time.

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We currently operate from two sites - one in Weybridge and the other in Ottershaw. Our Weybridge site, being right in the centre of the town, is becoming increasingly constrained by its size, lack of parking space, and inability to accommodate transporter deliveries.

Our Ottershaw site, on the other hand, is larger, in a less built-up location, and enjoys much greater capacity and ease of access. It also operates a petrol forecourt and is well located on the A320, very close to the M25, and less than 4 miles from Weybridge Town Centre.

We have therefore decided to merge all our operations onto the Ottershaw site.

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Queensmead Weybridge Ltd, a joint venture partnership between Cleanslate and Trident Honda, are pleased to announce that demolition of the former Honda Garage on Queens Road in Weybridge has commenced, to make way for a brand new landmark building; comprising high quality retail outlets and a range of luxury apartments. Demolition works will be completed within four weeks and the new building is expected to be completed within two years.

Mark Fitzpatrick, Managing Director of Cleanslate comments:

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Chris Burkitt has joined Weybridge as Aftersales Manager. Chris replaces David Herridge who leaves later this month. During his time with us at Thames Ditton, Chris proved himself a most capable Aftersales Manager, and we are delighted he has chosen to rejoin the Trident Honda Team.

Trident Weybridge is delighted to have been given responsibility for Cobham and its environs, by Honda, including:

• Cobham
• Downside
• Martyr's Green
• Stoke D'Abernon

Whilst Trident Honda is delighted to welcome customers from any area, this is a recognition by Honda of Trident Weybridge's outstanding customer care.

Trident are delighted to announce that they have acquired the freehold of the Lex Weybridge site at 30 Queens Road Weybridge and will be developing it as a Rover and MG dealership.

Trident Honda is delighted to announce that it has once again renewed and further extended its support for the Weybridge Vandals Rugby Club. The occasion was marked by the donation of a large bag of Gilbert rugby balls, used by Honda in its Guinness World Record for largest rugby ball mosaic.

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Local rugby club, The Weybridge Vandals, has published their latest club magazine, The Vandal.

Trident Honda recently announced its sponsorship of the club, marking 15 years since we first became involved. For more information please follow one of the following links:

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After 16 years of sponsoring the Weybridge Vandals Rugby Club, this year sees Trident Honda extend its sponsorship to include a large pitch-side banner (see photo).

With 2021 seeing Honda become the Performance Partner and Official Vehicle of England Rugby in a long-term, multi-year deal, and with England's Pennyhill Park training base renamed the 'Honda England Rugby Performance Centre' as part of the arrangement, we saw it as time to step up our support of the Weybridge Vandals.

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Weybridge Vandals have benefited from Honda UK initiative supporting rugby fans and grassroots teams, receiving 50 Gilbert rugby balls.

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Trident Honda is delighted to announce the sponsorship agreement with Weybridge Vandals RFC (Rugby Football Club), and marking 15 years since Trident Honda first became involved with the Vandals.

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Steve Henderson, Dealer Principal for Trident Honda Ottershaw, as well as Commercial Director, retires today.

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Our first 2012 Honda Civics have arrived, and are being prepared ready for customer demonstrations. Nearly all of the body components on the new 2012 Civic have been redesigned with particular focus on ride and handling, reduced CO² emissions, design and interior quality, while retaining the class-leading cabin, boot space and practicality.

If you'd like to drive the new 2012 Civic, please visit our 2012 Civic page for details, or call us at Weybridge on 01932 858811 or Ottershaw on 01932 874411.

On Sunday 19th August, a huge 68 metre, 143-tonne lorry passed Trident Honda, carrying a house-sized electrical transformer. The transformer was on route from Tilbury Docks to West Weybridge substation in New Haw.

The lorry travelled at just 12 mph for safety reasons, taking some 45 hours to complete the journey. This operation included the removal of street furniture.

The following video was taken by our forecourt sales assistant, Ollie Dunford, as the lorry passed Trident Honda:

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This afternoon a football-sized piece of ice fell from the sky and landed on one of our cars at Weybridge, narrowly missing one of our valeters. Fortunately no-one was hurt. Apparently this is quite a rare event, thank goodness!

Haines Bridge is going to be temporarily closed for a period over August / September whilst maintenance work is carried out on the water pumping station. This will affect the access to our Weybridge dealership.

There will be traffic diversion directional signs up during this period however, we would like to offer an alternative route which we believe is more direct and quicker for our customers.

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At the weekend over a thousand riders took part in the return of the Woking Bikeathon and the events return can only be described as a huge success!

The event was made possible by the sponsors, Trident Honda of Ottershaw & Weybridge, Bourne Valley Garden Centre, Barlow Robbins Solicitors and Freedom Leisure, working in conjunction with Woking Borough Council. Help was also provided by The Woking Advertiser, who came in as the event's media partner and were a great support throughout the build up to the event, as well as attending the event itself.

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Trident Honda is holding launch events for the new Honda CR-V 2013 on the following dates:

• Trident Honda Ottershaw: Monday 29 October 3pm to 8pm
• Trident Honda Weybridge: Saturday 27 October 3pm to 7pm

If you would like to attend, please Contact Us.

Trident Honda of Ottershaw and Weybridge are in the running for a prestigious national award for Customer Care, after reaching the last three franchised dealers in the annual Motor Trader Awards. The team are now looking forward to July 10th when the winner will be announced at a ceremony in London.

Reaching the finals of the competition caps a great few months for the Group, which this year celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. Richard Roberts, Managing Director, puts the secret of success down to the passion and commitment of his 100-strong team. Richard comments:

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Our launch events at Ottershaw and Weybridge were a great success, with much better than expected attendance, a first order and many strong enquiries. Unsurprisingly there was also strong interest in the outgoing model; driven by the spectacular CR-V Offers currently available.

Following the launch, we have now removed the launch page and published a page all about the new CR-V - which you can read below:

It's going to be a Happy Christmas for Mrs Anne McShane from Shepperton who scooped the top prize, a Honda Jazz, in Woking & Sam Beare Hospices Car Raffle. The second prize, a brand new Honda scooter, was won by Horsell resident Mrs Ann Hefernan. Both vehicles were sponsored by local car retailer Trident Honda, with sites in Ottershaw and Weybridge, and Lottery Manager Kelly Newell went along with some of her dedicated car raffle volunteers to accept the keys on behalf of the lucky winners.

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Customers can now book and enjoy an early test drive in the new 2012 Civic. To arrange, please contact our Weybridge sales team on 01932 858811, or our Ottershaw sales team on 01932 874411, or simply follow the link below:

Trident Ottershaw joins the World of Honda

Trident Garages is well known locally as a long-established family business, with dealerships in Ottershaw and Weybridge. The Trident name has long been associated with MG Rover; but, after 42-years, it is all change at Trident Honda, as the last of its MG Rover dealerships, based at Ottershaw, has now joined the World of Honda.

We visited Trident Ottershaw as the last of the Honda signs were being erected, and there was a real buzz amongst the staff. The showroom looked thoroughly modern, following its renovation last year, with additional design touches now being introduced by Honda.

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Trident Honda are proud to announce the launch of the new Honda Jazz, taking one of the most successful models in supermini history to the next level. Appealing to a broader audience, the new Jazz is not only more stylish and contemporary but it is also slightly longer and wider providing a more spacious interior.

To book your personal test drive in the all-new Jazz, or for further details, please contact Ottershaw Sales on 01932 874411 or contact Weybridge Sales on 01932 858811.

The 'Trident Honda 50th Anniversary Event' runs for eight days, from Saturday 26 January to Sunday 3 February, at both its dealership sites – Queens Road, Weybridge and Guildford Road, Ottershaw, near Woking.

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We have today gone live with a wireless hotspot service at Ottershaw. This enables our customers to connect to the Internet free whilst waiting in the customer waiting area. If successful we will launch the service at Weybridge as well.

The Woking & Sam Beare Hospices are holding their annual black tie Dove Ball event on Saturday 11th November at the Oatlands Park Hotel in Weybridge.

Once again Trident Honda will be supporting the event, with a donation of two VIP tickets to the 2018 British Touring Car Championship with Honda. The British Touring Car Championship always delivers seat of the pants racing for spectators and is a great day out. Honda finished the 2017 season in 2nd place in the Constructors' Championship and, with the stunning new Type R, is expected to do even better next season.

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Stephen Henderson, General Manager of our Weybridge dealership, has been appointed Commercial Director.

Steve joined Trident in 1997 as general manager of our newly constructed Weybridge dealership, after 20 years with a successful dealer group and reaching the position of finance director.

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Following customer feedback on our customer car parking, we held a meeting to review ways of improving our parking. One result of this meeting was the introduction of a valet parking attendant at peak times. This was launched on Thursday 3 May and is proving very popular with our customers, as well as improving the general parking.

Weybridge has a more serious problem, given the town centre location and the limited space available, and we are therefore recruiting a full-time parking attendant. We hope to have this new member of staff available in the coming weeks and feel sure that this will greatly improve the customer experience on arrival.

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After a considerable absence the Trident Honda Times newsletter is back! Inside this issue:

• Weybridge site merger
• Woking Bikeathon 2015
• Introducting the All-New Honda HR-V
• Honda NSX: Rebirth of an Icon
• The McLaren-Honda MP4-30
• The Record Breaking 2015 Honda Civic Type-R

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We are delighted to announce that, after 25 years with the same telephone system, Trident Honda will tomorrow be going live with a shiny new and modern telephone system!

Why are we changing?

Over the past 25 years Trident Honda has benefited from having a telephone system with bulletproof reliability; but, following the merger of our Weybridge dealership with Ottershaw, it is fair to say that our telephone system has on occasion struggled to cope with peak call volumes.

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MOT Testing Station

Trident Honda has an MOT Test Centre at its Ottershaw branch, covering the following areas:

Addlestone, Ashford, Bisley, Brookwood, Burrowhill, Byfleet, Chertsey, Chobham, Cooper's Hill, Donkey Town, Egham, Englefield Green, Horsell, Knaphill, Laleham, Longcross, Lyne, New Haw, Ottershaw, Pirbright, Row Town, Shepperton, St Johns, Staines, Thorpe, Virginia water, West Byfleet, West End, Weybridge, Woking and Woodham but welcomes customers from all areas.

To book your MOT please call 01932 874411, or Book On-line.

Why Choose Trident Honda?.

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After discussions with Honda, it has been determined that, due to their franchising territory plan for the Thames Ditton territory, we will be selling our assets at Thames Ditton to Thames Honda; who operate a number of surrounding sites.

Going forward, it has been agreed that we will operate the area from Weybridge and Walton across to Staines, Chobham, Camberley and Woking; which in itself is a great territory.

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Honda (UK) has confirmed that it will participate in the UK car scrappage scheme, which starts on Monday 18th May. The UK car industry has put considerable pressure on the government to introduce a scheme to encourage new car purchases and help support UK dealers and manufacturers.

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After a week of crippling roadworks in Ottershaw, for emergency gas main repairs, thankfully the team at Cadent Gas have changed the road closures to a one-way system starting at the Otter roundabout and continuing to the McLaren roundabout.

The new one-way system is now in operation, as follows:

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Trident Honda has officially launched a new three year partnership with Woking & Sam Beare Hospices, which will see the business support the charity through sponsoring key annual events in the Hospices' calendar. A proud family business with local roots, Trident Honda is a long-time supporter of the Hospices, having been involved since the 1990s.

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Purple was the colour in Mercia Walk on Saturday at the launch of the Woking & Sam Beare Hospices car raffle. Banners, pop ups, balloons and purple sweatshirts making the first prize of a Honda Jazz 1.2s car look even more stunning.

The car raffle remains a solid fundraiser for the Hospices raising thousands of pounds each year and this year we are delighted that Trident Honda are the main sponsors. With a £1 stake you now have the opportunity to win a Honda Jazz 1.2S car, the second prize of a family membership at David Lloyd was donated by the Health Club in Woking.

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We would like to wish all our customers a very Happy Christmas, with best wishes for the year ahead.

The following information may be of use to you over the festive period:

• Opening Hours
• Out of Hours Information
• Stay Safe in the Snow

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Trident Honda are pleased to announce we are now able to offer test drives in the fantastic new Honda Insight hybrid car.

The original Honda Insight, launched in 1999, was the pioneer of hybrid technology in Europe. The new Insight breaks new ground by providing all the environmental and economical benefits of a hybrid, plus it sells for several thousand pounds below the Toyota Prius. At the same time, the new hybrid should match or exceed the fuel economy of the Prius.

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After a four year journey of discovery for Honda's development team, the much anticipated New Honda Civic will arrive on the roads in 2012.

Trident Honda will be holding exclusive preview events for our customers and friends with attendees being the first to see the new car.

The preview nights will take place on:

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Established in 1963 by Michael Roberts, Trident Honda is today managed by his sons - Richard is our managing director, Christopher is our finance and IT director and James is our director of used car operations.

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Paul Barnett, Honda Sales Executive, retires today from Trident Honda, after 11 years service.

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Trident Honda has replaced its Microsoft Windows desktops with a Debian GNU/Linux based terminal server. You may not have heard of Linux, but it is everywhere: Linux powers many games consoles, many of the new generation of netbooks, some televisions, mobile phones (for example many of those made by Motorola and Nokia), the vast majority of supercomputers, and most of the Internet including Google. Linux is not, however, widely used on the desktop because, until recently at least, it required significant computer expertise.

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Trident Honda was delighted once again to sponsor the West Byfleet Golf Club Charity Day on Friday 28th July. Trident Honda had put forward the opportunity to win a Honda Jazz should anyone get a hole-in-one on the 17th hole.

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We are very proud that last night our Managing Director Richard Roberts was presented with the Paul Harris Fellowship Award, an award rarely given to someone outside of the Rotary organisation.

It was awarded for the many years of charity work and support given by Richard in his role both as Managing Director of Trident Garages and outside in his personal life. At the ceremony, attended by a number of Woking's charity organisations, Richard said:

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Back by popular demand, the new Jazz is now available with automatic Continuous Variable Transmission (CVT). It adapts seamlessly to different driving speeds, keeping the engine in the most efficient and economical power range. The performance is strong and smooth, even at low speeds, and if you're stopped on a slope the Hill Start Assist prevents you rolling backwards.

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The lucky winner of the Woking and Sam Beare Hospice Car Raffle has been announced. Congratulations to Mrs Borgars who has won a new Honda Jazz!

Trident Honda is proud to support this very worthwhile local charity event.

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Please see below our Trident Honda Newsletter. Inside this issue:

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At Trident Honda, we're very excited about the imminent arrival of the latest addition to the range - the Civic Tourer.

Built in Britain, the new Tourer offers the distinctive styling, performance and fuel economy of a hatchback but with the practicality and versatility of an estate.

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