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Step by step instructions to Jumpstart your car Make sure it’s safe to Jumpstart a Car To safely jumpstart a vehicle with a flat battery, always make sure that the area is safe for you to undertake the jumpstart. Move the vehicles as close as possible to ensure that the jumper cables reach, allowing enough room … Read more

So you’ve called our roadside assist team, help is on the way, and all you have to do is wait. However, roads and highways are not a safe place, during a breakdown, even inside stopping bays. Usually, the best place to wait is inside your car. Breakdown safety is a big deal, and we want … Read more

In our last Roadside Readiness article, we covered a few must-haves to prepare for long trips, where breakdowns happen, and items to keep in your car in case of emergencies. If you want to know the rest, read on, or watch our new video here. Recommended Tools For Roadside Readiness Driving at night can be … Read more

Car trouble is never welcome and almost never expected. Most of us don’t have a great idea of how to diagnose car issues, let alone solve them. If you experience a breakdown on a trip, many roadside assistance services can take a while to get to you – sometimes hours. This becomes an issue especially … Read more

What would you do? Sometimes it’s difficult to ask for help even when we are at our most vulnerable. Last summer, I met an elderly man with a flat battery who had called for help at his home after no luck with another roadside assist service. He had called the shop, exasperated, asking for help … Read more

We all know the history of humans and dogs – friends through thick and thin. The often-quoted author George Eliot once said that animals are our most agreeable friends, who ask no questions and pass no criticisms. Thomas, a 29 year old Wooloongabba local, was feeling thoroughly uncriticised for this great adventure he was taking … Read more

It was a sweltering Wednesday afternoon… the windows were rolled down. I weaved the van through mounting traffic toward Greenbank. As I approached the scene, the screams of suffering children were so loud, it was deafening. A mother stranded in the school car park after hours. The disaster… not car battery failure. The kids’ phones … Read more

Battery maintenance is so easy to forget… if only she had checked her battery – but luckily she still made it on time! One day, I was at a car park at a shopping mall in Brisbane on my way back to the workshop after doing a battery replacement, walking across the way. Across from … Read more

A battery failure leaves your daughter stranded alone at night. What would you do? I was getting ready to close up the shop at Greenslopes last week when a panicked father called the shop a few minutes before 5pm. He told me his daughter was stuck in the Mater Hospital carpark, her car wouldn’t start, and … Read more

From the average person’s perspective, it can be difficult to identify just what the problem could be when your car won’t start. What are the most common issues? The two most common issues involve the power in the battery not being enough to start your car – the other involves your car’s starter motor, a … Read more