The workshop
Two bays, one bench, twenty-two years
Unlimited Mobile Screen and Services started in 2003 with a toolbox, a borrowed
pickup and a phone number written on the back of a business card. The name came
from the first thing we were known for — windscreens and glass, fitted at the
customer's house because nobody wants to drive a cracked windscreen across town
to a workshop.
The glass work is still here. So is everything else that grew around it: engine
and gearbox work, brakes, suspension, auto electrics, tyres, batteries and
air-conditioning. Our bench sits at Old Yundum Market on the Coastal Road, which
puts us ten minutes from the airport road and within reach of most of Kombo
without fighting the Serrekunda traffic.
What has not changed is the way we work. You get a price before the spanner comes
out. You get the old part back if you want it. And if the honest answer is that
the repair costs more than the car is worth, we will say so and not take the job.
— Modou Sanneh, owner and lead mechanic