Car Repair
Car Repair – Ultimate Money Saving Guide
Car repairs can be tricky and difficult to assess. Expert Spanners offers wide variety of car repair at its car service centers Chenni.Following are the major car repairs that are carried out at our car workshops:
- Custom Car Repairs
- Brake Pad Replacement
- Car Transmission / Clutch Replacement
- Suspension Repairs
- Shocker Repairs
- Car Air Conditioning Repairs
- Electrical Repairs
- Car Engine Overhaul
- Car Dent Paint
Here is a quick guide to understand car repairs better.
To best understand the scale of damage and the amount of time and money a car repair will take we recommend a customer to consider the following 6 questions:
- What is the scale of car repair that you plan to undertake?
- How much time will it take for the required car repair?
- How much cost is associated with the car repair ?
- Can car repair work be done under Insurance or warranty ?
- Where to carry out the car repair work?
- Is there any warranty for the car repair work carried out?
Let us take some time to answer each of these questions related to your car repair need:
The Scale of Car Repair
You need to understand how major or minor car repair is it?
Let us classify car repairs into minor and major categories:
Let us classify car repairs into minor and major categories:
Minor Car Repairs
If the repair is about a small broken belt, a fused bulb, discharged battery, punctured tyre, car radio, broken wiper – prefer visiting your nearest local car mechanic to get the issue resolved. This will help you save time and does not risk your car much.
NOTE:Many a times, customers normally classify an engine coolant leak or engine oil leak as a minor car repair issue and gets them fixed by a car repair mechanic. The solution is normally a top-up of coolant / oil. This puts your car under extreme risk as the local mechanic repairing the car fails to identify the root cause of the leak which if ignored can result in a major car breakdown and will require a major car repair.
Major Car Repairs
If the car repair is related to car engine, car AC, gear box, clutch, suspension, brakes, electrical faults, dent paint. These car repairs require a good trained car repair mechanic along with highly sophisticated electronic equipment. We suggest visiting a fully equipped car service center with a trained team of car mechanics. They will not only identify the root cause of the issue, but will also ensure that the issue does not persist in future.
If the repair is about a small broken belt, a fused bulb, discharged battery, punctured tyre, car radio, broken wiper – prefer visiting your nearest local car mechanic to get the issue resolved. This will help you save time and does not risk your car much.
NOTE:Many a times, customers normally classify an engine coolant leak or engine oil leak as a minor car repair issue and gets them fixed by a car repair mechanic. The solution is normally a top-up of coolant / oil. This puts your car under extreme risk as the local mechanic repairing the car fails to identify the root cause of the leak which if ignored can result in a major car breakdown and will require a major car repair.
Major Car Repairs
If the car repair is related to car engine, car AC, gear box, clutch, suspension, brakes, electrical faults, dent paint. These car repairs require a good trained car repair mechanic along with highly sophisticated electronic equipment. We suggest visiting a fully equipped car service center with a trained team of car mechanics. They will not only identify the root cause of the issue, but will also ensure that the issue does not persist in future.
- Time Required for Car Repair
Since time is money, so every day lost in car repair can become heavy either this way or that way. Generally car insurance claim repair takes more time than getting the car repaired on own. Time to get your car repaired is also dependent on the availability of spare parts.
If the time taken to repair a car is more than 1 day, never rely on a local roadside car mechanic. Prefer visiting a fully equipped car service center. If the multi brand car service station is actually repairing the worn out parts, then you should ask no more questions and choose them. All authorized service stations are notorious of replacing parts even when they can be repaired as one key metric they assess their workers on is the number of cars they work and close every day.
- Cost Associated with Car Repair
Cost of car repairs play a very big role in choosing the right car workshop. Normally multi brand car workshops like Expert Spanners are able to repair the parts rather than outright replacement of parts and hence they become very lucrative compared to an authorized service station. In case the costs are close by, we suggest you to go with an authorized service station in case the vehicle is still under manufacturer warranty
- Car Repair under Insurance Claim or Manufacturer Warranty
There are certain types of car repairs which can be covered under the cashless insurance claim facility of your insurance provider. If the car repairing bill is huge go ahead and put a claim under insurance. You will have to choose a car workshop which has the cashless insurance claim facility available.
If the vehicle is relatively new, in some instances the car repair work can be carried out under the manufacturer warranty. The manufacturer warranty can only be claimed at an authorized service station. If the car manufacturer agrees to process your car repair under the warranty, choose from the authorized service center as it saves many bucks for you.
- Where to Carry out Car Repair
Now after assessing all the points above, it will be much easier to choose the right car repair partner for your car.
How to save money during car repair?
You can save lots of money if you opt for repairing parts rather than changing them. Authorized workshops always believe in changing parts even if they could be easily repaired. We here at Expert Spanners understand this very well and suggest our clients accordingly for repair of parts (If possible).
- Warranty on Car Repair Work
One very important thing to assess is the warranty that the car workshop is willing to offer on the car repair work that it has carried out. Generally all Expert Spanners car garages offer 15 – 180 days of warranty on the car repairs that are carried out by them. On the contrary, and against general consumer perception – the authorized workshops do not offer any sort of warranty on car repairs carried
