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Webbie's Mechanical is running car-care days for women and teens, plus hands-on truck pre-start training — at our workshop and out at your yard. Here's what's on in August and how to join. You want to feel confident with your own vehicle There's a particular kind of...

A Mercedes 20,000km overdue for a service turned a simple wheel bearing into a bent spindle and a six-week parts wait. Here's why servicing on time is the cheapest repair you'll ever do. You just want to get home from the run A driver was on his way back from...

Take a walk across the Webbie's Mechanical floor. Three mechanics, three very different jobs — and the same standard on every one. Here's what a proper workshop day looks like. You just want it done right When your truck or your vehicle goes into a workshop, you're...

Scott and Jade walk you through this month in the workshop: a head gasket job that became a full rebuild, a runaway Hino, a bent spindle from a late service, a cracked Scania water pump, and our August courses. You want your truck fixed once, and fixed right Every...

A coolant leak with three faults hiding behind it — how we worked it back "I'm losing coolant and I don't know where it's going" This is a pretty standard request — "I'm losing coolant, no idea where it's going." A customer rolled in with exactly that. He also...

"It's just got an oil leak" — except it never is A Mitsi Fuso rolled in the other day. Customer said the truck was leaking oil and leaving drops everywhere. Standard request — until you have a look at it. The whole engine bay was wet. Where the oil was coming from and...

A truck with a wallowy ride and squeaking leaf springs The complaint was simple. The truck was uncomfortable to drive. The leaf springs were squeaking. The whole rear end felt heavy and wallowy — like the truck wasn't holding itself up properly. The owner had been...

Ever wondered what a Roadworthy Accreditation check actually checks? If you've ever had to organise a Main Roads Roadworthy Accreditation check, you've probably wondered what we're actually looking at. Fair question — most of it happens under the truck, and "please...

A Mitsi Fuso, a regular customer, and a hard cold start A regular customer rolled their Mitsubishi Fuso into our Welshpool workshop the other day for its B service. While we were booking it in, he mentioned two things: a few lights out, and that the truck was hard to...