Well, it’s been a bit of a wild ride lately aye? Changes all across the country, especially with Covid stuff mucking about. We’re seeing plenty of questions from locals, so figured it’s worth laying out what’s going on at Grimmer Motors in Hamilton – especially around who we can help keep motoring, and how things are running in the workshop.
Are we open for essential workers?
Yep, we’re here for you. As of 19 August 2021, Hamilton’s in Level 4, so Grimmer Motors is “on call” for repairs. Right now, if you’re classed as an Essential Service Worker, we can get you sorted. Doesn’t matter if you’re running between supermarkets on Anglesea Street in a Mazda Demio, zipping to the hospital on Pembroke Street in a Toyota Aqua, or hauling gear out to Morrinsville and Te Awamutu in your trusty Ford Transit – we’re here (with the masks, the sanitizer, the whole safety dance).
If the country bumps down to Level 3, we’ll be able to help out the wider public as well, in a completely contactless way. Means you can get the car serviced, WOF’d, or fixed without the face-to-face runaround.
Who do we actually help at Level 4?
If you’re out there on the frontlines – be it medicine, food, power, emergency, keeping the country moving, even keeping the internet ticking over – you’re our priority right now. Seen everything here from courier drivers lugging packages from Cambridge, to farmers needing their Navara running smooth for early-morning runs across the paddocks near Horsham Downs. Here’s the sort of people we’re helping:
- Doctors, nurses, and ambulance crews
- Supermarket, pharmacy and cleaning team members (need transport for those back-to-back shifts)
- Tradies doing essential repairs – sparkies, plumbers, you name it, especially out round Rototuna or Glenview where those water pipes never knock off
- Taxi, Uber, and delivery drivers criss-crossing through Flagstaff and out to Horotiu
- Farmers, ag-workers and tanker drivers from out Matangi, Tamahere, and beyond
- Security, bank, insurance, and services that just can’t stop
- Food processing, packaging crews – the lot
- Fire, police, corrections, and defence workers
- Telecoms, news, courier, posties, rubbish guys, water company techs, and more
Honestly, if you need your vehicle to keep those essential businesses going, just give us a bell. We know life doesn’t stop because of a busted alternator or worn-out brakes – especially with Hamilton’s stop-go traffic round The Base, or when you’re stuck crawling behind tractors outside Ngāruawāhia in a Honda Odyssey and the engine starts coughing. We see all sorts: even a late-model Peugeot or that reliable old Suzuki Swift with 300,000k on the clock. Anyone and everyone, men and women alike – we get all the stories from the driver’s seat.
How to reach us (and what to expect)
Even though the workshop’s a bit quieter, one of our techs will pick up the phone. Doesn’t matter if it’s 8 in the morning or you’re ringing at 9:30 at night – we’re taking calls all through the Level 4 lockdown, 7 days a week, from 8am to 10pm. We’ll get you booked in, ask you a few basics about your car (Japanese, Euro, diesel, hybrid, whatever you drive), and run you through what’s needed.
Been through enough dodgy weather and potholes out on Peachgrove Road to know Hamilton cars take a hammering. Tyre wear, hard starts on frosty mornings, brakes squeaking after those sudden stops outside Dinsdale shops – we’ve seen it all. You’re not the only one!
Please, just look after yourselves and those around you. We’ll keep your vehicle on the road, safe and running sweet so you can keep looking after the rest of NZ in your own way.