Tag: car service

Do you know the difference between a safety check and a survival check for your vehicle? Many Kiwi drivers treat a Warrant of Fitness like a full…

Thinking your car is safe just because it passed its WOF is a gamble that rarely pays off for Kiwi drivers. A Warrant of Fitness only confirms a…

You’re halfway through the Kaimai Range or stuck in Auckland’s afternoon crawl when a sudden, rhythmic thud starts under your feet. Is it just a…

How much of your life have you spent sitting in a cold waiting room, scrolling through your phone while a simple oil change takes two hours? For most…

You are standing at the service desk, and the mechanic mentions a “perished CV boot” or “pitting on the rotors.” You nod along, but inside, you are…

What if you could drop your car off for a service and actually know exactly when you’ll get your keys back? Most Kiwis dread the “we’ll call you when…

What if your annual Warrant of Fitness is actually leaving your engine at risk? It’s a common mistake to think a WOF sticker means your car is in…

Is your annual trip to the mechanic a genuine safety audit or just an expensive oil change? Many Kiwi drivers feel a wave of anxiety when they drop…

What if you could book a car service as easily as ordering a flat white, without the fear of a “surprise” invoice waiting for you at the end? Most…

Why does it feel like your mechanic starts speaking a different language the moment you ask for a quote? Most Kiwi drivers dread that “mystery bill”…

What if you never had to step foot in a greasy workshop again? For most drivers, a typical **car service christchurch** involves a stressful 8:00 AM…

What if you never had to set a 6:00 AM alarm just to drop your vehicle at a workshop again? We’ve all been there; you drop the keys, cross your…

Why should you spend 45 minutes battling Terrace traffic just to leave your car in a cold workshop all day? Most Wellingtonians dread the logistical…

Guest Post: If your life is anything like mine, the hours spent between 7am-5pm are spent running around like a headless chicken, checking in on whatever needs doing work-wise, errands to keep things going at home, the list is endless! So you can imagine my dismay when I noticed that my brakes started to show […]

Nearly all modern cars have different service intervals, this is to do with different engine constructions and different engineering requirements. If your car needs a service, or any other work, click here. For example a higher performance European car like a Mercedes, BMW, or Audi, will require more oil changes, filter changes and maintenance to […]

Your engine is called an ‘internal combustion engine’. This means that while running there’s a lot of, well, internal combustion occurring. Thousands of explosions a minute, these create a lot of heat. How do you stop all this heat from ruining your engine? Coolant is pumped through the cooling channels, carrying heat away from the […]

Your timing belt doesn’t run the clock in your car. It runs a way more important part – your engine. Like many other engine components, it wears out. When your car is running, it’s spinning at extremely high speeds, in a very hot place. I don’t really like running in a very mild place, imagine […]

The manual is a sacred thing among car people. More of an annoyance to everyone else. Fair enough, anyone who’s been stuck in rush hour for an hour in a manual will also be question the reason for its existence. Connecting car and driver, in such a raw and engaged way however, is the main […]

In your car you’ll either have a manual transmission, or an automatic transmission. Each of these takes the revolution per minute of the engine, and transfers it to the wheels via the drivetrain. As your engine needs different gears to move the car at different speeds, your transmission determines at what speed the engine moves […]

Rightio, so you’ve organised a car service through MyAutoShop, organised to get your car serviced (within the recommended timeframe as well, well done!) and, at the time of dropping your car off at the mechanic’s, they ask if you’re after any additional service items. You may be wondering what they’re referring to, given you’ve ostensibly […]

Your car should drive in a straight line when you want it to. To do this, you need the wheels all pointing in the same direction. Often you’ll find your car pulling to one side, this is a sign that your tyre alignment needs a check. Your wheel alignment means that your car will go […]

Your car’s wheels spin around, the pistons go up and down. So the question is how you take the lateral movement of your pistons and turn it horizontal to make it rotational energy? The answer is your crankshaft. It takes all the energy from the pistons and sends it to the transmission. This is super […]

Seinfeld’s famous “Serenity now!” skit was always a favourite in my family, and goes some way to setting the general tone of our family car trips growing up.  We all seem to be searching for ways to access our inner peace these days, and I’m just going to go ahead and say this, but it […]

For many of us, our big annual break comes around at the end of one year, and the beginning of another.  Even if you’re working through the period, you’re no doubt scrambling to get out the door and out to a holiday destination. Sure enough, the roads are busier, bottlenecks more frequent and we daresay […]