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Car Fix purchases three locations, including Farragut

October 9, 2024 by Tammy Cheek

Car Fix, LLC., which bought the Service Street Tire & Auto Repair at 11926 Kingston Pike, next to Derby Run Drive, opened Friday, Sept. 27, and is ready to serve customers.

“Our motto actually is ‘we fix everything,’ so if you name it, we can fix it,” said Tristan Piet, interim store manager of the Farragut location.

“We do everything from domestic to European to diesel,” he added. “Everything.

Car Fix started “very small, in Crossville, in 2003,” Piet said. “The owner, Richard Weis, has expanded since then and started a multi-unit growth.

“We currently have about 12 locations,” he added.

The manager said Car Fix has “a single owner, real easy to deal with,” while the business is “family-friendly and essentially we’re only here for our customersWe do anything we can to help everybody out.”

Piet noted Car Fix has a number of locations left in the Knoxville area.

Kellyco boasts new showroom

October 9, 2024 by Tammy Cheek

KNOXVILLE — From hobby and treasure hunting to securing a concert, Kellyco Metal Detectors has a new showroom at 11217 Outlet Drive to feature its popular detectors for any use.

“We do hobby and commercial,” said Dorry Floyd, president and co-owner with her husband, Jeremy Floyd.

In the hobby realm, “we have folks that are really into history,” Dorry said. “They use their detectors to look for relics and Civil War memorabilia, bullets or any type of material that might have come from a historical event.

“You also have people who are coin collectors who are looking for the rarest of coins or the oldest coin,” Dorry added. “You have the person who is at the beach, trying to find things that are lost that have value.”

Along with treasure and artifacts hunters, commercial includes metal detectors

used at a concert or other public events and airports. They also carry wands used to search for firearms.

The Floyds carry several brands of metal detectors. Among them are Garrett, Minelab, Nokta, Fisher and other lesser-known brands, which are a commercial line.

business briefs

October 9, 2024 by

• U-Haul, which has a location at 10833 Kingston Pike in Farragut, recently added 196 more company-owned facilities across eight states to its 30 days’ free self-storage disaster relief offer for people impacted by Hurricane Helene, now a tropical depression.

All U-Haul regional offices in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia have joined locations in Florida, Georgia and Alabama by extending one month of free self-storage or U-Box portable container usage to persons needing a dry and secure space to keep their belongings during the clean-up, according to a press release.

“There are now 437 U-Haul stores providing disaster relief: 136 in Florida; 79 in Georgia; 50 in North Carolina; 48 in Tennessee; 35 in Alabama; 34 in Virginia; 32 in South Carolina; 19 in Kentucky; two in Indiana; and two in Mississippi.”