Vehicle Inspections

If you’re planning on selling or otherwise transferring ownership of a vehicle, you must first obtain a Roadworthy certificate, issued by a licensed tester after a thorough inspection. This certificate ensures that your vehicle meets the minimum legal safety standards to be driven on Victorian Roads.

When you’re thinking about buying a secondhand vehicle, we would recommend bringing it in for a pre-purchase inspection. This inspection ensures you know exactly what you’re buying, and helps you avoid nasty surprises. Here at Romsey Auto Care we can also provide you with an estimated cost of repairs for you to factor into your purchase decision.

Romsey Auto Care can help you with both Roadworthy and pre-purchase inspections.

Steering & Suspension

Flaws in your steering and suspension affect handling and ride comfort, causing play in the steering wheel and body lean through corners. Your suspension is also responsible for maximising the grip your tyres exert on the road, so a poor suspension will also increase your stopping distance.

Romsey Auto Care’s expert mechanics can help you with:

• Wheel alignments
• Shock absorbers, springs and struts
• Wheel balancing
• Bushing replacement
• Power steering repairs and replacement
• Lift kits and other 4WD upgrade

Air Conditioning

Nothing ruins a summer drive faster than broken air conditioning, especially if you’re stuck in traffic. Your AC is unique in that it degrades more from disuse than from use, as the rubber tubing and seals which make up the interior of your aircon dry up and crack if not used, allowing the refrigerant gas to leak out and rob your air conditioning of its cooling power. Romsey Auto Care can fully repair your air conditioning, starting by replacing faulty compressors and condensers, then replacing any cracked tubing and seals, and finally regassing your system with refrigerant once we’re certain it’s airtight.

Clutch & Transmission

As part of the machinery that transfers the power from the engine to the wheels, the clutch and transmission are made up of some of the most complex and sophisticated machinery in your vehicle. Due to their intricate nature, even minor flaws can quickly escalate into extremely costly repairs.

Here at Romsey Auto Care, our expert mechanics can help you with:

• Clutch repairs
• Automatic and manual transmission repairs and servicing

Cooling System Services

A malfunctioning cooling system causes a multitude of problems from reduced power output and fuel efficiency, to decreased engine lifespan as leaking coolant and overheating damages the engine. If these problems are ignored for long enough, they will render your vehicle immobile, with the cost of repairs being comparable to buying a secondhand car.

Romsey Auto Care’s skilled technicians can perform:

• Radiator/heater unit repairs and replacement
• Head gasket replacement
• Coolant flush and leak check
• Thermostat check and replacement

Diagnostics and Auto Electrical

As modern vehicles have increased in complexity, more and more functionality is being governed by the onboard auto electrical network, from playing music and monitoring fuel consumption, to assisting with braking and gear changes even putting your vehicle into limp mode if a serious flaw is detected, to prevent lasting damage.

Here at Romsey Auto Care, our technicians can help you with:

• Alternators and starter motors
• Battery check and replacement
• Component test and replacement
• Diagnostics
• Lighting upgrades
• Accessory installations
• Solar/battery systems

Brake Services

Your brakes are the most important safety feature your vehicle has. While other safety systems mitigate the severity of an accident, your brakes can also act preventatively, and the condition of the brakes is often the deciding factor between an accident and an emergency stop.

Romsey Auto Care’s skilled mechanics can perform:

• Brake component machining
• Brake hose repairs

Tyres

The condition of your tyres is the deciding factor in how much grip you exert on the road surface, especially during wet weather, where the treads of the tyre act as channels to divert the water away from where the contact patches meet the ground.

Here at Romsey Auto Care, we can help you with:

• Tyres from major brands for all makes and model of:
  • Car
  • 4WD