June Special For the whole month of June at all GDL Automotive Services workshops is FREE REGO INSPECTIONS: It may also interest you to know that recent changes to New South Wales registration laws mean your pink slip/e-safety inspection is now valid for six months. We have covered this in depth in the article below.…
Rego inspection E safety Inspection Pink slip The anual pilgrimage to your local repairer for your vehicles safety check and roadworthiness inspection is called an number of different things. We have covered in previous articles some common mistakes people make surrounding this which you can find by clicking the link below. Common mistakes people make…
Looking for a truck mechanic on the Northern Beaches or North Shore? GDL Automotive Services is proud to announce the store manager of our newest branch based in Hornsby is a qualified Heavy Commercial Vehicle mechanic also known as a truck mechanic. Under his licence and GDL Automotive Services vehicle repairers licence, our Hornsby team…
Things people are ignorant about. US politics, the cause of the GFC and the legality of number plates. You probably are not aware that many of the vehicles that come through our workshop for rego inspections and safety checks actually have number plates that do not comply with NSW law. The rules are quite strict…
What is this rubbish the dealers are trying to sell me now? Automotive Bloggers have warned consumers for many years now about the less than ethical upselling of preventative maintenance items as required repairs. In recent times (the past 5 – 10 years) we have seen motor vehicles hit the market featuring an item called…
Lets cut straight to the chase. The days of replacing the brake pads on their own or getting your brakes “relined” went out with bell bottom pants and Go-go boots. The average customer does not understand this and is often upset at the cost of a brake replacement repair. The cause for this is a…
As an authorised Blue slip inspection station we deal with our fair share of trailers. There is no one size fits all, everything from campers, boat trailers, caravans and even DIY fabricated rickety metal frames welded together by some retired presbyterian minister. Whilst a lot of what we see is about as road legal as…
With the closure of the last of Australian vehicle manufacturers in recent years companies are now forced to look else where for their fleets. Not excluded from this issue is the federal government. Currently the fleet of vehicles used to ship MP’s judges and other important, mildly overweight governing officials and dignities around is the…
Anyone who has inhabited this world long enough to remember Belinda on Play School will by now have come to terms with the fact that owning and running a motor vehicle of any type is expensive. There are certain makes and models that amplify this “cost of living” but that is a conversation for another…
Hats off to Subaru. When a recurring problem presented itself Subaru decided to do the right thing by its consumers and develop a repair for the fault and then issued a global recall on the issue. Unlike Ford with the dreaded power shift transmission issues. almost 400,000 Subarus globally and some Toyotas that share the…