Caring for our community
By Caring For Your Car

We provide a full range of automotive services, including WOF inspections, vehicle servicing, mechanical and electrical repairs, diagnostics, brake and clutch repairs, transmission servicing, and more.

Yes! Our qualified mechanics can service and repair all makes and models, including European, Japanese, and hybrid vehicles.

We recommend booking an appointment to ensure availability, but we also accept walk-ins whenever possible.

Most vehicles are around 15,000 km or twelve months, and for a newish car doing moderate kilometres, that works well.

It isn’t the answer for every vehicle, though. We’ll recommend shortening the interval to 10,000 km when a vehicle has missed services in the past, and the internals are obviously carboned up, when it’s using oil, or when there’s engine noise and the vehicle’s condition or the owner’s budget doesn’t justify investigating further. In those cases, more frequent oil changes are the practical way to protect what’s there.

We set the interval based on your vehicle’s condition and how you actually use it, not a number in a manual. Short trips, stop-start running, towing and dusty conditions all age oil faster than a schedule assumes.

Yes, for company fleets, on 20th of the following month terms and subject to an application process. Get in touch and we’ll talk it through.

No — Zip has withdrawn from the New Zealand market. Afterpay is the closest equivalent and we accept it.

Possibly, and it’s worth a call before you look anywhere else. A significant repair is never planned, and the vehicle securing that loan is worth more to your finance provider running than off the road. Many will look at restructuring or extending to cover essential repairs. It costs nothing to ask.

They may be able to help. You’ll need a written quote to apply, which we provide at our Henderson workshop. See our WINZ car repairs page for how it works, including what we do about the diagnosis charge.

Yes. Afterpay covers six weeks interest free. For larger jobs, Gem Visa and Qcard offer longer interest-free terms, though they take seven to ten days to approve — so they suit planned work rather than a vehicle in the workshop today.

No. Every card carries a merchant fee, and Amex sits meaningfully higher than the rest. That cost either gets surcharged at the counter or quietly built into everyone’s prices, and we’d rather do neither. It’s not a criticism of Amex — We keep it under review, so if it’s a problem for you, particularly on a business account, tell us — and in the meantime the finance options above are all available here.

The cost varies depending on the service type, vehicle model, and any required repairs. Contact us for a free quote.

Not for private customers, no. We’re in the business of repairing vehicles, and chasing invoices is a different business entirely — managing credit would pull us away from the thing we’re actually good at. That’s why we’ve gone the other way instead, and set up interest-free options through providers who do that properly. You get the flexibility, we stay focused on the workshop, and nobody ends up in an awkward conversation about an overdue account.

Company fleet accounts are the exception, on 20th of the following month terms and subject to application.