You don’t need a scanner or a lift to see a breakdown coming—just a trained eye and a few seconds around your car. After 20+ years working dealership floors and …
There are two kinds of dashboard warnings. The ones you ignore until your next coffee stop, and the ones that make your stomach drop. The low oil pressure warning is …
Got called out to a member who’d just had her summer tyres fitted. She reckoned something wasn’t right — said the pressures weren’t calibrated properly. That’s actually more common than …
You get all kinds of calls in this line of work. Flat batteries, overheating, no-starts. But every once in a while, you get one that makes you scratch your head …
By: Northcap – Rustyautos Roadside Friday morning. Tight parking lot. Roadworks up one side, delivery vans choking the other. And somewhere in that mess — a BMW with a newborn …
By: Northcap – Rustyautos Roadside Got a call early one morning. Member had locked the keys in his van and was already late for work. His first words? “Should I …
By: Northcap – Rustyautos Roadside Got a callout from a member staying locally while installing a diesel generator at a nearby data centre. He’s a programmer for industrial power units, …
Got called to a pretty routine job — puncture on a hatchback parked at the side of a busy road. Nothing out of the ordinary… until the driver said something …
Got called out to a member with a nasty vibration through the steering wheel. Pulled up expecting a beater, but nope — it was a mint Lexus. Super clean. And …
Most hydraulic clutch issues follow a script. Soft pedal? Probably the master or slave cylinder. Pedal drops to the floor? Check for leaks, maybe a bad seal. But every so …
It was 6:30 on a Friday evening when the call came through. A young lady on her way to an equestrian event — just five miles out — had broken …
Brakes are one of those systems I don’t mess around with. If there’s any doubt, it’s going on a truck. And this job was a textbook case of why. Got …
Got a job last week–MBR parked outside a shopping mall. “Car won’t move. Engine runs fine, but the gear shifter’s stuck in park.” No noise, no warning lights, and—of course—no …