Skinner & Osment: Italian Car Specialists in Downton

Skinner & Osment is an independent garage on Downton Industrial Estate, focused on maintaining and repairing Italian cars — Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Fiat among them. The team handles everything from routine servicing to more involved mechanical work, with diagnostics, engine repairs and performance tuning specific to these marques.

Brakes, suspension and the electrical quirks that tend to show up on older Italian models are all within the workshop’s day-to-day work, using parts and methods that keep cars close to their original specification rather than just patched up.

There’s a clear emphasis on keeping older cars usable and reliable day to day, not just preserved for show. The garage also handles MOT testing and general repair work across a wider range of makes, and draws on relationships with specialist parts networks for the less common models.