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Repairs, on your driveway

You do not have to get a vehicle that will not drive to a garage, and you do not have to pay to have it dragged there. Most of what a garage does on a ramp can be done on a driveway by somebody who brought the right tools with them.

Clutches, gearboxes and gearbox oil, brakes and pipes, suspension arms and shocks, water pumps, timing belts and chains, exhausts. If it is bolted to the vehicle and it has failed, describe the noise and we will tell you whether it is a driveway job or one that genuinely needs a lift.

Big jobs go on driveways more often than people expect. The gearbox in the picture came out on a drive, on rubber mats, with the car back together the same visit.

A white Citroen DS3 on a driveway with the bonnet up and its gearbox lying on rubber matting beside the front wheel, next to a trolley jack and a pair of orange gloves.
A gearbox out on a driveway, on his own matting, on his own Facebook page.

Tell us what it is doing

Ring and describe the noise, the light or the thing it will not do, and say what it is: car, van, forklift or boat. If it is easier to type it, send the form instead.