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6 Simple Yet Effective Maintenance Tips for Your Luxury Car

Congratulations! Finally, you’ve achieved one of your life’s goals: to buy a luxury car. After years of sheer hard work, you have realized your dream of owning a car.  Whether that car you purchased is Benz C Class or VW Phaeton to be a show-stealer on-road, no doubt the power & luxury comes with its own set of responsibilities. It is of great importance that you devote time and effort in maintaining your ultra-luxury car to ensure not only it looks aesthetically...

Buying a Secondhand Car- Refrain from Committing These Five Mistakes

According to the recent research by TransUnion revealed that many customers who qualify for a new vehicle loan still opted for more affordable "nearly new" second-hand luxurious cars instead. But, buying a used car is baffling. Whether you’re browsing through online portals, those lists of used cars for sale, or in touch with an automobile broker, the whole experience can be staggering, especially for first-time buyers. Plus, second-hand cars usually don’t come with warranties and other perks. With that in mind, today,...

5 Most Common Blunders That Can Ruin Your Transmission

This may be astounding to discover, however the greatest factor in deciding how long an automatic transmission will keep going is more subject to the vehicle proprietor than it is the vehicle manufacturer. Possessing information about your transmission and putting it to practice will highly affect your transmission's service life, and the distinction between the two can be either untimely transmission failure or your transmission outlasting the remainder of your vehicle. Thus, we should move a couple of things straight...

What Does Log Book Servicing Include?

In the event that you are consistently ahead of the self-care game, what's precisely preventing you from treating your vehicle right? Logbook servicing is as essential to a vehicle as much as regular health check-ups are for an individual. It is a sort of service that keeps an eye on singular vehicle care. This methodology includes fixing as per the car owner’s particular needs. Each logbook service has categorized errands that are performed at indicated time-frames to guarantee effectiveness and...

WHY SERVICE YOUR CAR REGULARLY?

Regular servicing of your vehicle is a significant role of being the owner of the vehicle. We highly depend on vehicles for moving from one place to another. At the point when the undesirable things occur and if the car breaks down, it frequently ruins that time. Servicing a car consistently doesn't guarantee certain disappointment yet it will surely assist with diminishing the power of misfortune.  It is constantly suggested that motor oil ought to be depleted while servicing. The oil...

Get Your Brakes Replaced by a Mercedes Specialist in Adelaide

Your Mercedes is fully equipped and intentionally designed to provide you with all sorts of safety measures while driving. From all the sensors, cameras, and driver support features, however, there’s another crucial part of your on-road protection that several Mercedes owners (and motorists in general) have a tendency to overlook and that vial part is brakes. While they may not be as glitzy as something like Distronic cruise control, your brakes are a critical piece of the safety equation – all...

Mercedes Vito W639

Mercedes redesigned the Vito light commercial van and relaunched the rear wheel drive commercial in 2004, a significant improvement on the front wheel drive predecessor. The predominant engine was the OM646 4 cylinder turbo diesel engine which has proved itself reliable and tough. The Mercedes Vito was also offered with a V6 petrol and a V6 diesel engine. The V6 diesel engine is a very powerful offering, however regular servicing at no more than 10,000km intervals is required. Failing to...

VW Golf 6th Generation

Vw introduced a new 1.4 litre engine in the new 2008 6th generation Golf. It was a trend that saw a number of competing manufacturers utilise high output smaller capacity direct injection engines that in turn benefited the consumer from low fuel consumption figures and exceptional economy. Coupled to the new DSG – direct shift gearbox, VW brought technology that was previously used in Formula 1 to road cars. The DSG gearbox allows two gears to be selected together in...

Magneto re-magnetising service now available

I have finally managed to source and purchase a magneto and permanent magnet re-magnetiser. This may look like something out of a Frankenstein movie but I can assure you it is an extremely useful and valuable tool when you are working on vintage cars equipped with magneto ignition. Every other auto electrician had one of these in the 1920's onwards but the weight of copper windings doomed most to be sold for scrap. If your historic vehicle has magneto ignition and...

You get what you pay for when it comes to vehicle servicing…

Don't be fooled by the discounted service! This vehicle's oil filter was very, very close to causing serious engine damage. This is how it was removed from the vehicle - falling apart! The high demands of modern engines mean that the quality of lubricants and parts are critical in maintaining longevity and service life. This oil filter was fitted to a BMW and it is not suitable for use in any car!  We only use filters that meet or exceed manufacturers specifications...