Concept cars was the agenda today for Free Friday, leaning off some of the cracking videos we posted this week. We looked for some ideas on what your idea of the best concept car would be, letting your imagination run wild and in an ideal world what you that car feature! 

As always we had some very good entries, albeit a low number of entries! We picked a random winner and that winner was:

Kathy McMahon

Well done Kathy, can you send your details in to rob@micksgarage.ie and we'll send out your prize to you next week.

Thanks to everyone else for entering, we'll be back again next week for some more Friday fun! Have a great weekend! 

Babies were the theme this week, to celebrate our bank holiday special offer on all our baby travel essentials we wanted you to tell us the craziest, most outrageous baby names you've ever heard.

We got a great mix of mad names, from sisters, to cousins to celebrites.....such an amazing mix of names, some we just thought could never be used. It prompted us to remember this amazing song from the legend Johnny Cash:

We had great trouble picking a winner for today's prize, especially with some corkers such as: Megatron, Mary Zakira, Bono's Memphis Eve, Beck's Harper Seven & Senna (although secretly we do love that one!). The winner however did make us chuckle the loudest when we heard it and that came from:

Sue M Carroll with Jermain Jackson's  Jermajesty
Here's proof: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2070329_2070340_2070336,00.html

Congrats Sue, if you can email your details into rob@micksgarage.ie we'll get your prize out to you next week! 

For everyone else, we thank you for once again making us laugh here in MicksGarage and for sharing your mad baby names. I'm afraid we don't have any crazy names in here, although you might call 'Elvedin' ( our marketing genius) a bit of a whacky name...

Enjoy the long weekend, we're going to leave you with this hilarious collection of Ghetto names....hilarious!  

To announce our expanded range of engine oils & lubricants, including the new range of Castrol, Total & Elf oils, we put a direct focus on oil for this week's Free Friday. As always we try and keep things pretty simple, and this week it was no different - in fact you didn't even have to leave Facebook! 

All we asked you to do is to use our brand new Total Oil selector at the top of of FB page, select the oil for your car and post the answer on our wall! Very easy!. We hope you found the tool easy to use, and of course it gives you a good insight into the correct oil for your car, and as we all know - 'Every day's a school day' no matter what age we are! 

This week we had two winners, prizes shown in the snap below (Total Regatta Jacket, 5 Litres of Total Engine Oil for your car and a warm and wolly Total hat, all thanks to the lads in Finol Oil). First prize goes to:

Steve Desmond Donovan 

Second prize was 5 scratch-cards that enable you to enter a draw for tickets to Euro 2012. Great opportunity to join in the celebrations in Poland and shout on the Boys in Green - those 5 scratch-cards went to:

Chris Round 

Well done lads, if you can send in your details to stuart@micksgarage.ie we'll send out your prizes next week.

To everyone else, thanks very much for entering this week! Remember we have 15% off all our oils and lubricants this week, so make sure you check them out

Have a great weekend, we'll be back as always next week for the final one of the month! 

Free Friday roared back onto our FB page today, with no mention whatsoever of Friday 13th! How did we manage that one? Well we just decided to have some good ol' banter instead! It kicked off with a teaser with shocking news of Button and his F1 incident...and it continued into Free Friday and our caption competition! 

Was pretty simple, we had this photo for you to comment on:

We kept this week's Free Friday focused on great sporting moments - be it funny commentators, last minute winners, mad interviews - call it what you like. We had great entries, bringing us down memory lane to some of the great sporting moments the defied many a generation!

We had some great prizes as well, continuing our amazing March giveaways. Thanks to the lads in Finol Oils who provided us with some Regatta jackets, woolie hats and a sports umbrella, it's the perfect spectator's kit, keeping you dry and warm all at the same time. 3 winners this week:

Andrew Niven - 1st Prize (Jacket, Hat & Umbrella)

Olaf Dennison - 2nd Prize (Jacket)

Ann-Marie Vereker - 3rd Price (Jacket) 

Well done everyone, and thanks for sharing your sporting highlights! If you could send in your details to stuart@micksgarage.ie  -  they will be out in the post to you very soon.

To everyone else, have a cracking weekend - if you have any money left after Cheltenham! Enjoy the games tonight, tomorrow and Sunday. Happy St. Patrick's Day

March Madness is in full swing by now, and so our incredible Free Friday give-away prizes have just kept on rolling! We tried to keep it topical this week once again, seeing as the Irish Government has been in office a year yesterday, we wanted to hand the power back to the people, and we asked you the question:

If you were Minister for Transport, what changes would you implement, good, bad or just pure crazy!

Tax was top of the list, driving licence was also in the mix there and of course the price of fuel. Michael McCormack has a novel one, asking to tax people who have their seats at 180 degrees.....harsh! 

We did pick 3 winners this week though, and those winners are:

Brian Donovan - 1st Prize (Car Mats) 

Niall Duff - 2nd Prize (Fuel System Treatments) 

Norbet Smyth - 3rd Prize (Fuel System Treatments)

Congrats to you both - can you please send your details, including the type of car you drive to stuart@micksgarage.ie and we'll send you out your prizes. 

For everyone else, thanks for all the entries. We think some of you should venture into polotics! Some crazy ideas, but some very novel ones as well.

Have a great weekend...We'll be back next week, same Bat time same Bat channel! 

With all the talk of oscars and movies this week we decided to jump on the proverbial bandwagon and centre Free Friday around it. To help us do so we even had the one and only Mick to model this week's top prize of a Mintex jacket (worth €65!) in his best Angelina Jolie leg pose! 

For the month of March we have decided to really treat our customers! For the first time ever MicksGarage have a month of special offers, discounts & giveaways, helping you save a few bob across the board. Every week we'll have something new to whet your appetite, with something for everyone through-out the month.

It all kicked off today, March 1st - where we announced our month long offers:

 - Free Delivery on all order over €/£10
 - Free CeraTec & 5% off all Mintex Brake Pads & Discs orders
 - Free Philips Keyring Torch with all BlueVision & ExtremeVision Bulb orders 

We'll announce more discounts on Monday, March 5th when the first raft of weekly offers will be available, so make sure you check keep an eye out here on our blog, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or our website for all the latest deals! 

Free Friday has come upon us again folks, and we're all about social media this week. We just set our new Pinterest page live so we wanted you all to help us populate it - we called it Reader's Rides...little controversial one might say but it was all in good fun.

We selected one winner from all the entries and that winner this week was:

Eric Jones

Beautiful E12 Eric, thank you very much for sharing the snap with us! Can you email stuart@micksgarage.ie with your details and we'll have your Bottari Multiuse Torch out in the post to you next week.

To everyone else, thank you very much for all the entries this week - bookmark our Pinterest page because we'll be keeping it updated regularly!  

Have a great weekend!  

This week we decided to do something different and turn the tables on you guys on our classic - 'Guess the Car' and let you test our knowledge. We asked you to post your crytpic snaps for us to decipher, and you gave us some beauties! The office was full of debate, argument and almost brawls guessing them but for the most part we got them all - however the one that caused the most debate, and caught us out the most was:

Jonathan Scales

with an image of BMW 1800 indicators that we were convinced were off a 2002. But after checking up part numbers we admitted defeat. 

Well done Jonathan it was a tough one! Could you please email your details to stuart@micksgarage.ie and we'll have your jacket sent out to you next week.  

As for ourselves, well we need to spend the weekend brushing up on our abstract automotive photo deciphering abilites! Thanks to all of you who entered....Have a great weekend, we'll be back next week for some more shenanigans!