Bayo started out repairing radios and cassette players in Brikama before anyone in the
family owned a car. When the first Toyota came into the compound with a dead alternator
and no one nearby to fix it, the tools moved from the bench to the driveway and never
really went back. Bayo Electronics has been on the Brikama Market highway since 2003,
first as a two-bay workshop and now as a workshop plus a call-out van that covers
Brikama, Banjul and the Kombo road.
The work is mostly the same as it was then: cars that won't start, cars that overheat,
cars with a light on the dash that nobody can explain. What changed is the electronics.
Modern vehicles are half computer, and a mechanic who can't read a fault code is guessing.
That's why the diagnostic kit lives in the van, not on a shelf, and why every job starts
with a scan rather than a hunch.
We're a small outfit on purpose. Two mechanics, one van, one phone number. If you call,
you speak to the person who will actually be under your car — not a reception desk.
Most of our work comes from people who were sent by someone we fixed last month, and
that's the only advertising we've ever needed.
— Bayo Sanneh, proprietor