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5 Ways to Tell If You Need New Wiper Blades

5 Ways to Tell If You Need New Wiper Blades

Keeping your wiper blades in decent nick is a simple way to make your drives around Hamilton safer and a whole lot less stressful — especially when the weather does its usual Waikato thing and chucks it down on your way to Te Awamutu or Morrinsville, or the fog rolls...
3 Ways to Know If You Need a New Timing Belt

3 Ways to Know If You Need a New Timing Belt

1. Have a Good Look at the Timing Belt Alright, reckon you don’t need a textbook to spot something dodgy with your timing belt — just pop the bonnet and have a decent look (or ask us to show you next time you’re in for a car service at our Hamilton workshop)....
7 Ways to Repair ABS Tone Wheels Hamilton

7 Ways to Repair ABS Tone Wheels Hamilton

1. Give ABS Tone Wheels a Regular Once-Over If you’re driving around Te Rapa, through the morning traffic to Frankton, or taking your kids over those chunky speed bumps in Rototuna, your car’s ABS tone wheels can cop a hiding. First thing we do when someone comes in...
7 Reasons Why the Engine Won’t Start

7 Reasons Why the Engine Won’t Start

1. Dead or Weak Battery Right, so you jump in your Suzuki Swift parked on Peachgrove Road or your Honda CR-V after a long day at The Base, turn the key — nothing. Dead silence or maybe a few clicks. Classic. Nine times outta ten, it’s the battery. We get loads of cars...
7 Benefits of Engine Stop/Start Systems

7 Benefits of Engine Stop/Start Systems

By now, you’ve probably noticed more and more cars around Hamilton – everything from late-model Mazdas out in Te Awamutu, to European SUVs parked along Ulster Street – switching themselves off and on again at the lights. That’s all thanks to engine stop/start systems....
10 Causes of Car Flat Batteries

10 Causes of Car Flat Batteries

Battery Gone Flat? Here’s 10 Common Reasons (and How to Dodge Them) Righto, we see a lot of flat batteries here at Grimmer Motors – especially with all the stop-start stuff you get around Hamilton. Whether it’s a Toyota Aqua crawling up Wairere Drive in winter, or a...