Tuesday, February 28
Electronics
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Vehicle electronics are becoming increasingly complex. Where once you only had to turn a key and off you go, cars now have their very own brain running all sorts of sensors and automatic functions.
Do you remember you used to have to wind your own windows down and didn't need your car to tell you you hadn't shut the door or put your seat belt on! Its all very well and good, but the price paid is that if things go wrong, they can go wrong quite spectacularly and can cause major problems with finding the fault.
We have all the up to date equipment for fault finding but often it is not a straight forward as plugging in and being told what the problem is. A great deal of electronics skill is required to read the car and trace the fault and it can be very time consuming and frustrating as the fault is sometimes very well hidden. Things are moving at a fast pace in vehicle technology and James has headed off to Chester this morning for a 2 day course in Electronics for a bit of an update as this seems to be an area we are increasingly getting involved in. Im sure he will return refreshed and brimming with lots of new knowledge.
Do you remember you used to have to wind your own windows down and didn't need your car to tell you you hadn't shut the door or put your seat belt on! Its all very well and good, but the price paid is that if things go wrong, they can go wrong quite spectacularly and can cause major problems with finding the fault.
We have all the up to date equipment for fault finding but often it is not a straight forward as plugging in and being told what the problem is. A great deal of electronics skill is required to read the car and trace the fault and it can be very time consuming and frustrating as the fault is sometimes very well hidden. Things are moving at a fast pace in vehicle technology and James has headed off to Chester this morning for a 2 day course in Electronics for a bit of an update as this seems to be an area we are increasingly getting involved in. Im sure he will return refreshed and brimming with lots of new knowledge.
Friday, February 10
Facebook!
Just to add we can now be found on Facebook!
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If any of you use Facebook, this is an easy way of us keeping in touch with you. Go to our page and click the 'like' button and you will get all our news and updates from this site.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Car-Clinic-Citroen/135526143235816#!/pages/Car-Clinic-Citroen/135526143235816
If any of you use Facebook, this is an easy way of us keeping in touch with you. Go to our page and click the 'like' button and you will get all our news and updates from this site.
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Annual M.O.T. Test news
Plans to change the annual M.O.T. test and make it bi-annual and moving the first M.O.T. to 4 years old instead of 3 have been scrapped by the Government last week.
According to V.O.S.A 20% of cars and light commercial vehicles fail their first M.O.T. which is due when the vehicle is 3 years old, this potentially could double if the first M.O.T. was at 4 years old.
Many vehicles on the road do not get serviced at regular intervals, hence the only time a vehicle gets checked for 'roadworthness' is at its annual M.O.T. time when any dangerous faults get rectified. We here at Car Clinic welcome this decision.
http://www.pro-mote.org.uk/
We realise the annual M.O.T. can be a worry and we try to make the process as painless as possible. We can make you an appointment at a time to suit you. It takes about an hour to do and you are quite welcome to stay and have a nice cup of tea or coffee whilst you wait. Our M.O.T's here are completely independent from us. When we moved to our current workshops we found a great M.O.T. centre virtually next door so it seemed sensible to use the services of our neighbour to provide our customers with a completely impartial test.
Our M.O.T price is currently £40.00.
According to V.O.S.A 20% of cars and light commercial vehicles fail their first M.O.T. which is due when the vehicle is 3 years old, this potentially could double if the first M.O.T. was at 4 years old.
Many vehicles on the road do not get serviced at regular intervals, hence the only time a vehicle gets checked for 'roadworthness' is at its annual M.O.T. time when any dangerous faults get rectified. We here at Car Clinic welcome this decision.
http://www.pro-mote.org.uk/
We realise the annual M.O.T. can be a worry and we try to make the process as painless as possible. We can make you an appointment at a time to suit you. It takes about an hour to do and you are quite welcome to stay and have a nice cup of tea or coffee whilst you wait. Our M.O.T's here are completely independent from us. When we moved to our current workshops we found a great M.O.T. centre virtually next door so it seemed sensible to use the services of our neighbour to provide our customers with a completely impartial test.
Our M.O.T price is currently £40.00.
Tuesday, February 7
New web site progress.
New look site ready for blast off onto the Internet. Give it a day or so and things should happily settle into their new home on the world wide web and we will be accessible from our usual web address.
Monday, February 6
The Cyber Car Clinic
No, nothing to do with the silver-suited arch villains of decades of Doctor Who episodes, but a new way to keep in touch with your favourite motor service centre.
We got tired of out-of-date websites that needed a degree in computer sciences just to change a date, and so followed Andre Citroen's lead, binned convention and are doing it the right way (other vehicles are available).
Granted, it's not as original as front wheel drive in a pre-war saloon, radial tyres, oleopneumatic suspension or steering wheels with a single spoke, but it allows us to do what we want to do in the way we'd prefer to do it: keep in touch with you, and prompt you through the change in the seasons.
If you know how all this stuff works, you'll be familiar with the orange RSS feed icon at the bottom left-hand side of the screen, which will alert you to changes in the site ... and if you don't, find a ten year old and ask them very nicely :-)
We got tired of out-of-date websites that needed a degree in computer sciences just to change a date, and so followed Andre Citroen's lead, binned convention and are doing it the right way (other vehicles are available).
Granted, it's not as original as front wheel drive in a pre-war saloon, radial tyres, oleopneumatic suspension or steering wheels with a single spoke, but it allows us to do what we want to do in the way we'd prefer to do it: keep in touch with you, and prompt you through the change in the seasons.
If you know how all this stuff works, you'll be familiar with the orange RSS feed icon at the bottom left-hand side of the screen, which will alert you to changes in the site ... and if you don't, find a ten year old and ask them very nicely :-)
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