http://www.rdautoservice.com/news The world of repairing cars, either in garage or as an emergency roadside service Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:57:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It seems like this news section is dominated by composite doors and not running a garage and recovery service as it started out as. The trouble is, that has just about been the story of these few monthe nothing new or different has really happened, so I am afriad it ... http://www.rdautoservice.com/news/composite-doors-the-end-i-promise/ You may remember we had an attempted break in a while ago, well it happened again but this time towards the front. We replaced the sire door with a new composite one behind our existing roller shutter and this time, they did not attempt to get in there. They tried ... http://www.rdautoservice.com/news/new-front-door-to-match-the-side/ From time to time we do a bit of salvage work when the garage is quiet (less time now though), but this can get a bit boring and locating car parts and the right salvage project can take more time than the actual repairs. recently though there has been and ... http://www.rdautoservice.com/news/looking-at-american-imports/ As you know we do a fair bit of vehicle recovery if they should breakdown away for home, so we were a bit surprised to what happen just recently. We got a phone call from a motorist who said he had broken down and could we recover his car back ... http://www.rdautoservice.com/news/the-day-the-aa-came-to-town/ I have always liked classic cars, but to be honest the cars I really like tend to be the ones I can’t afford so never got close to them, even though my father always had a car and I suppose I grew up with what is now popular classic cars. ... http://www.rdautoservice.com/news/enter-a-morris-minor/ The guys have been complaining lately about the process we have for  picking customers up or dropping them off. You we we do not hire out courtesy cars, so one of us ends up dropping off customers and picking then up and often this is in their own private vehicles. ... http://www.rdautoservice.com/news/a-new-car-for-the-garage/ I had someone around explaining about health and safety and how to avoid accidents in the workplace, you know what I mean. we know about goggles, earmuffs, cleanliness in the loos etc, but never heard of intrinsically safe equipment. It seems wherever there is the risk of explosion, i.e. around ... http://www.rdautoservice.com/news/intrinsically-safe-what/ There is nothing more worrying than getting a phone call telling you the alarm at the garage has gone off in the middle of the night. Arriving 30 minutes later it didn’t take long to see where the entry point was, the metal roller shutter was prised open and the ... http://www.rdautoservice.com/news/changing-to-composite/ There was a time that in order to keep your warranty of a new car you could only get it serviced from the main dealer and in the case of certain German cars, this could be expensive. I fact many car owners had no choice but to pay what the ... http://www.rdautoservice.com/news/servicing-that-lease-car/ You probably already know about our mini excavator that clears the snow away and lifts engines and loads of other heavy work. Well up until now I had no idea that a bucket was anything else but something to out water in. It seems that these things on the end ... http://www.rdautoservice.com/news/mmm-what-is-bucket-teeth/