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Pre-holiday servicing – do your customers a favour

Wednesday, 30 October 2024

Hopefully the only hassle most owners will have with the trip to the beach at Christmas is the never ending “Are we there yet?”, “Are we nearly there yet, Are we almost there yet?” questions from t

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FRAM Oil Filters – your engine’s guardian

Wednesday, 30 October 2024

While the engine might be the heart of your car, the oil filter is its lifeblood.

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GPC charging ahead with new purpose-built facility and courses

Monday, 30 September 2024

GPC has unveiled their new specialist vehicle training centre in Penrose this month.

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A ‘cool’ $2 million back to industry

Monday, 30 September 2024

As a result of record collection numbers of redundant refrigerant, New Zealand’s product stewardship scheme for refrigerants, Cool-Safe has paid out over $2million back to industry.

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Bosch Diesel Centres

Monday, 02 September 2024

Bosch Diesel Centres (BDC) are specialised service centres authorized by Bosch to provide expert diagnostics, maintenance, and repair services for diesel fuel injection systems.

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OEX Automotive Airconditioning industry training

Monday, 02 September 2024

OEX are running a series of air conditioning training courses in 2024, these will be conducted by Grant Hand, who is considered to be one of Australasia’s leading trainers for climate control syste

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Short on time use Cool Swap

Wednesday, 28 August 2024

Short on time? If you're in Auckland, Wellington, Hamilton or Christchurch, this one's for you.

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BEV’s need more repairs

Monday, 05 August 2024

Maybe the repair industry should not worry so much after all, BEV proponents commonly state BEVs will need less repairs due to reduced componentry.

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EV & Hybrid Servicing

Tuesday, 04 June 2024

Whilst EV numbers are growing strongly the big volumes for servicing at the moment are hybrids with a lot of NZ new Hybrids and Used imports in the NZ car parc.

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4WD Servicing is a different beast

Tuesday, 02 April 2024

To be fair, we are talking here about 4WDs that actually earn their keep and get driven off-road with some regularity and we are not counting the grass verge outside the daycare as off-road!

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What do you think of Catch Cans?

Monday, 05 February 2024

In recent years, the Catch Can has become a familiar piece of jewelry fitted to diesel engines.

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Cool-Swap helps alleviate cylinder shortage

Monday, 05 February 2024

Refrigerant recovery cylinders have been in short supply over the past 12-24 months, and Cool-Swap is our initiative to help alleviate some of that supply squeeze and give more people access to the

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The ever-changing refrigerant story

Tuesday, 28 November 2023

Over the last 30 years there seems to be an almost continual change in the refrigerants used for automotive air conditioning systems in New Zealand.

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Australian workshops are gearing up for EVs

Monday, 30 October 2023

Fifty percent of Australian workshops are either already EV-ready or actively investing in skills and equipment with a future focus.

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Refrigerant Industry training review

Monday, 02 October 2023

The independent review will identify where Cool-Safe will invest $500,000 per annum to build capacity and capability within the New Zealand HVACR sector.

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Ensure a repaired safety system is tested and recalibrated, always

Tuesday, 05 September 2023

Modern safety systems in vehicles have become so integrated into the contemporary driver’s behaviour behind the wheel that driving without blind spot monitoring or parking sensors, just to name two

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OEX automotive air conditioning industry training

Tuesday, 05 September 2023

OEX are running a series of air conditioning training courses in 2023, these will be conducted by Grant Hand, who is considered to be one of Australasia’s leading trainers for climate control syste

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What is different about servicing European vehicles?

Monday, 31 July 2023

Europeans – The stereotype varies by country – conservative, flashy, excitable, boring and demonstrative – and that’s just the cars – the same can be said for the people!

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