COMPANY boss Paul Savage faces a £6,000 bill after his car servicing business charged customers for work never done.

Buckinghamshire Trading Standards discovered the blunders after following up customer complaints and took the case to Wycombe Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

Savage, director of All Around Tyres & Auto Services, in Inkerman Drive, Hazlemere, High Wycombe, was landed with a bill totalling £6,163.47.

David Collinson, prosecuting for Bucks Trading Standards, told the court they investigated complaints from Kevin Bartlett and Robert Coker. He said Mr Bartlett was charged £399.30 for a new clutch even though the new part was not fitted in December 1999. He added Mr Coker paid for a service, tracking work and new brake shoes on his van in February last year but trading standards discovered the clutch and brake shoes which were supposed to have been replaced were 'extremely worn'.

Savage had pleaded guilty to four offences under the Trade Descriptions Act when he appeared in May.

He admitted two charges that on December 6, 1999, the company gave a false trade description in the form of an invoice for a clutch which had not been fitted. The same two charges were also applied to the company in relation to another complaint made by a customer over an invoice for brake shoes.

The court heard Savage had two previous cautions.

Magistrates ordered Savage to pay £1,000 for each offence, £399.50 compensation to Mr Bartlett and £123.47 to Mr Coker for brake shoes, and pay trading standards costs of £1,640.47.