Rawson Motors understand that planning a road trip and making your vehicle holiday-ready demands more than packing your essentials and filling the tank. To ensure your car's optimum performance, reliability, and safety on long road journeys, regular servicing becomes crucial. So, why should you carry out regular vehicle service, and how does it keep your car ready for holidays? Let's explore. 

Get Your Car Holiday-Ready with Regular Servicing

Brake Maintenance is of utmost importance in regular vehicle servicing. No matter how great a car's performance might be, if its braking system is compromised, it's a recipe for potential disaster. Technicians will inspect the brake pads, lines and fluids to ensure the system operates seamlessly when you need it most.

Why Brake Maintenance is Crucial for Your Car's Safety

An air conditioning system doesn't merely add to your comfort but plays an essential role in window demisting, providing safety. Keeping it fully functional is vital, and the servicing technicians perform thorough checks, repairing any detected problems for an efficient air conditioning system.

The Importance of a Well-Functioning Air Conditioning System

Suspension and steering significantly influence the car's handling, ensuring a smooth and comfortable ride. Regular servicing examines any potential wear and tear on your shock absorbers and suspensions, and any issues in steering components. This inspection helps in diagnosing problems early, promoting safer and easier driving. 

Ensure a Smooth Ride with Suspension and Steering Checks

Your car's engine is its heart. Thus, regular checking and changing engine oil is vital for keeping it running smoothly. Over time, the oil can become dirty and lose its efficiency, making regular changes crucial for maintaining a healthy engine.

Keep Your Engine Healthy with Regular Oil Changes

Batteries can run flat with no prior warning, creating unpleasant and sometimes risky situations. During a routine service, technicians conduct battery inspections, testing its voltage, checking for any leakages, and ensuring its hold-down clamps are secure.

Prevent Unexpected Issues with Routine Battery Inspections

Tyre maintenance ensures that your tyres are not worn out or underinflated, preventing poor handling, punctures, blowouts, and accidents. Regular tyre rotation and wheel alignment also increase their life span.

Tyre Maintenance: Essential for Safety and Longevity

An electrical system of a car comprises many elements, from the ignition system, lights to power systems. A glitch in any of these could mean inconvenience at best, and a serious risk at worst. Regular servicing aims at efficiently diagnosing and fixing these problems.

Avoid Risks with Regular Electrical System Checks

Replacement of vehicle fluids and filters is another aspect of regular car servicing. It includes engine oil, brake fluid, transmission fluid, and coolant, preventing potential issues that can degrade your car's performance.

The Importance of Replacing Vehicle Fluids and Filters

With regular vehicle servicing, your car will run more efficiently, leading to a smoother driving experience, reduced emissions, and fewer running costs. Ultimately, it leads to peace of mind during your journey, ensuring the safety of all passengers on board. 

Enjoy Peace of Mind with Efficient and Safe Car Servicing

Keeping your car in top shape requires routine and comprehensive servicing. The expert technicians at Rawson Motors use only the best equipment, parts and fluids to ensure your car's readiness for any road trip. So when the time comes for your next holiday drive, be assured your vehicle is in peak condition with the reliability and safety that regular car servicing guarantees. After all, it's your car, and you have the right to make the best choice for it.

Choose the Best for Your Car: Comprehensive Servicing Benefits

Ensure a safe and smooth holiday journey with regular vehicle servicing from Rawson Motors. Boost performance and reliability by maintaining brakes, tyres, engine, and more.

Prepare Your Car for Road Trips with Regular Servicing in Officer

Regular car service makes it easier to get ready for road trips

Local car service mechanic in Officer, Victoria, Rawson Motors offer clients the best in car servicing and automotive repairs.

Rawson Motors perform all general mechanical servicing and repairs on all makes and models, including motorcycles, diesel cars, four wheel drives and vehicle fleets and can also service and repair LPG systems.

Our Workshop is a short 3 min walk to our local Officer Train Station, so you can conveniently get to work, home or other activities while your car is being serviced at Rawson Motors.

The Level Crossing at the junction of Station Road & Officer S Rd has now been permanently closed to all traffic. Officer S Rd can be accessed via Rix Rd and Bridge Rd. You can still cross over the railway line at Brunt Road or the underpass on Siding Ave. Please use the alternative routes suggested in the map below.

Permanent Road Closure - Enter via Officer S Rd Only

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Rawson Motors care about the environment and have Arctick Authorisation  (AU51705) to reliably and responsibly conduct automotive air conditioning regas, repairs, inspection and servicing.

Don't wait till it's too late. Drop in to our Officer mechanical workshop for a Free Battery Load Test for peace of mind. We can arrange a new battery and fit it same day (subject to availability) if it fails the test. Don't waste time by being stranded.

Mechanics at Rawson Motors use the latest scan and diagnostic tools, along with a specialist electronic fuel injection (EFI) cleaning equipment to ensure that your vehicle is running as efficiently as possible. Rawson Motors also provide Roadworthy Certificate (RWC) Inspections along with EFI Servicing & Repairs. Other major specialised services are Brake Service and Repairs, Engine Tuning and Log Book Servicing.

Upgrading to a Hybrid Vehicle? Rest assured that you can continue to have your vehicle serviced by us. Whether it be New Car Log Book Servicing, brakes, air conditioning, cooling systems or even suspension we can service makes like Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, Kia, Nissan Hybrid Vehicles. 

LPG Inspections, Testing, Repairs and Recertification

Rawson Motors are Authorised to perform LPG inspections, maintenance, tuning and repairs and are the most experienced LPG Autogas specialists in Officer!
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Rawson Motors is an Authorised Testing Station and can undertake inspections, repairs and issue Roadworthy Certificates (RWC).

As an Accredited Automobile Repairer of the Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce (VACC) Rawson Motors is also a participating VACC Repairer for the Five Point Safety Check inspecting the critical safety systems of all vehicles - lights, tyres, steering, brakes, and restraints. As a VicRoads Licensed Vehicle Tester, Rawson Motors can inspect your car and provide a Certificate of Roadworthiness upon assuring the correspondence to car safety requirements. 

We are fully qualified to carry out your log book service on your new car and can stamp your log book, preserving your statutory warranty. Our fully qualified log book servicing ensures your car is in safe hands. Our mechanics will pick up your vehicle for repairs and deliver it back to your location - and you can arrange to use our loan car. 

Free Loan Cars available for our customers whilst their car is being serviced or repaired with us. We highly recommend that you book in advance to secure a Loan car for the day. Please return the vehicle with a full tank of fuel. 

As a Repco Authorised Service centre, Rawson Motors are committed to high quality workmanship, ensuring the very best in automotive care. Our car service is a member of the Repco Auto Tech training program, ensuring each mechanic is kept fully up to date with modern vehicle repair methods.

You can always rely on team at Rawson Motors for friendly local car service from a trusted independent mechanic!

Rawson Motors specialise in Log Book Service, Hybrid Vehicle Service and LPG servicing and repairs. We can perform all general mechanical servicing and repairs on all makes and models, including motorcycles, diesel cars and vehicle fleets.

Automotive Servicing and Repairs in Officer

About Rawson Motors - Car service in Officer

Did you know there is a cabin air filter in your car? Where is your cabin air filter? They are designed to remove a large amount of outside air pollutants and debris to keep you breathing easily when you drive.  And it is usually located in your glovebox. Talk to Rawson Motors in Officer today about your cabin air filter !

Just like your air-conditioning at home, the filters need to be checked at regular intervals and changed when it has done it's job. Replacing your cabin air filter is important to your health and your cars health too!

The air outside your car can be polluted enough with smoggy city traffic or even dusty country roads, but research published in the Environmental Health Perspectives Journal shows that without an effective cabin air filter installed, the air inside your car can contain over 10 times more pollutants than the air outside.
This poor quality air can cause:

"Cabin air filters are designed to filter out contaminants while  absorbing noxious odours and harmful gases like exhaust and ozone,"  explained Ryco Filters General Manager of Sales & Marketing, Ross Lamb. Cabin air filters become clogged over time and their effectiveness at protecting your health declines. 

If you drive ‘Mum's Taxi', you might feel like you are always on the move - and a recent study into driving habits confirmed that parents with children aged 6-15 drive approximately 10% more than drivers without kids. And, the longer you spend in a vehicle with a Cabin Air Filter that needs replacing, the more you are at risk of health complications. 

As well as healthier air - an effective cabin air filter means you get better fuel performance from your vehicle. A clogged cabin air filter will cause your air conditioner to work harder than it needs to and this means it uses more fuel and your air conditioning system is more likely to have a costly breakdown.

At Rawson Motors in Officer we check your cabin air filter as part of our free 65 Point Vehicle Inspection report which you can request with every full car service.
For a more comprehensive check of your air condition system we recommend an air conditioning service.

Cabin air filter replacement is not only important to your car's health - it affects yours too.

As prescribed by Australian Consumer Law you DO NOT need to take your Ford back to a dealership for servicing.

If it happens you are hoping to get a competitive log book service for your Ford - then contact Rawson Motors in officer and share a few details about your Ford (for example - the model, year and date of last service) supply supply a competitive quote today.

Anxious you will void your statutory warranty?

It's OK - All Rawson Motors service crew guarantee to use only We guarantee to use only appropriate quality parts as given in the manufacturers specifications in the performance of log book service on a wide range of makes and models, including the following Ford vehicles;

Tourneo, Fairmont, Ecosport, Pinto, Econovan, Escape, Falcon, Orion, LTD, Ranger, Courier, Fusion, Explorer, Cortina, Sierra, XTWagon, Mondeo, Festiva, Zodiac, Xr8, Galaxy, Futura, Territory, Thunderbird, Taurus, Exhibition, F250, Bronco, Fiesta, Transit, GT, Focus, Escort, Mustang, Kuga, Capri, Laser, Ghia, Flex, Edge and Ka.

To keep your Ford in top condition get a regular service.

As a car owner you who will perform your car service who will perform your car service

The truth is you SHOULD NEVER feel you are being intimidated into taking your Ford back to a specific new car dealership for handbook servicing. Rawson Motors CAN service your Ford vehicle as per the manufacturers specifications, preserving your statutory warranty.

You have the right to decide who will service your car without voiding either the manufacturers warranty or your rights under the Consumer Guarantee. 

Rawson Motors can perform log book service and repair on a wide range of vehicle types, makes and models in our officer service centre.

You have the right to choose a mechanic for car service. Simply book a service for your Ford or contact Rawson Motors, tell us about your car and your last service and we can give you a quote today.

You DON'T need to take your Ford back to a dealership for servicing. If you're looking for a reliable log book service for your Ford vehicle contact Rawson Motors in Officer...

Ford Car Service and Repairs in Officer

It is a fact that you get to choose where your vehicle is serviced, maintained and repaired, at competitive prices.

Wanting to snap up a great deal in the end of year car sales or want to welcome in the new year by having your new car serviced? Here is some sound advice from Rawson Motors in Officer.

The acquisition of a new car is one of the most substantial investments you will likely make, so it is common sense to do whatever you can to maintain it. Caring for your new car goes beyond detailing the interior and keeping it sparkling with a loving weekly wash, however.

There are a few other things to consider, such as who is the best choice to service your car.

You will want to ensure it is regularly serviced by a qualified professional, to the manufacturers requirements, using high quality parts from a reputable supplier and fluids which meet the manufacturers specifications. This is not just to look after your new car, but because if these four requirements are met you will also preserve the manufacturers warranty.

It is a fact that you get to choose who will service your new car without voiding either the manufacturers warranty or your rights under the Consumer Guarantee

Car dealers are not able to force you to take the vehicle back to the dealer where you originally purchased it for service or repairs. Provided the work is implemented to the manfufacturers specifications by a suitably qualified person and uses acceptable quality parts and fluids, the warranty stands. You have the right to choose who services your car.

With Repco Authorised Service you can tick all the boxes. Every Rawson Motors mechanic is fully qualified and Auto-Tech trained, giving them access to Australia's leading provider of automotive technical information and training. This means Rawson Motors mechanics are kept fully up to date with the latest in automotive service techniques and are able to service your new car without voiding the warranty.

Repco branded parts & products are manufactured to stringent Repco quality standards, and are covered by the Repco Nationwide Warranty, giving you added protection. Rawson Motors will also only ever use fluids and lubricants that meet the specifications of the original vehicle manufacturer.

If you already own a new car or are thinking of purchasing one, make sure you clearly understand where your statutory rights begin and end

Make sure you are aware of the diversity between express, statutory and manufacturer warranties to help you make the right selection when it comes to servicing your new car. You are automatically covered by a statutory warranty, also known as a Consumer Guarantee, under Australian Consumer Law (ACL) and this statutory protection can never be replaced by manufacturer or express warranties (which are offered by the car maker and car dealer respectively).

A lack of disclosure requirements on car dealers at the point of sale regarding these contracts can easily lead the consumer into making a choice to be bound by a long term contract without access to all of the details needed to make a properly informed decision.

So at the time of sale, look out for new car dealers who may try to pad the deal with “express” or “extended” warranties, often for free. Much of the time these ‘special' warranties may include quite specialised restrictions or provisions, and are not always what they are cracked up to be. Many times these promises provide no real additional benefits not already covered by the consumer's basic statutory rights and can tie the unwary buyer into a long term agreement with a particular new car dealership.

Such promises are very unlikely to call to your notice the potential negative aspects involved with taking a new car back to the dealer for service or repair. This includes the distance you may need to travel to get your car serviced or longer waiting times due to fewer available service locations or mechanics.

Check out our frequently asked questions below for more information on New Car Service and warranties. If you need to know more, the AAAA website and ACCC website have some great information too.

New Car Service Frequently asked questions

Were you aware of the fact that it is your right to choose where your vehicle is serviced, maintained and repaired, at competitive prices. Rawson Motors can service your new car using quality parts and fluids, preserving your warranty…

Rawson Motors - The Right Choice for New Car Service

Rawson Motors - Right choice for new car service

In accordance with Australian Consumer Law you DO NOT need to take your Holden back to a dealership for servicing.

If it happens you are enquiring after a fair priced, reliable log book service for your Holden then call us at Rawson Motors in Officer and instruct us regarding a few particulars of your Holden (like year, model and last service date) allowing us to supply a competitive Arranging a regular service is the best way to keep your Holden in the best condition possible

Anxious about voiding your new car warranty?

Rest easy - All Rawson Motors service staff are fully trained and qualified. We guarantee to use only appropriate quality parts as dictated in when carrying out when carrying out log book service on a wide range of makes and models, including the following Holden vehicles;

The Holden Monaro won the Australian Car Of The Year award in 1968 and The Gemini won it in 1969 and again in 1975.

Arranging a regular service is the best way to keep your Holden in the best condition possible.

As a vehicle owner you are accorded the right to choose which mechanic you will trust for car service.

Rawson Motors CAN service your Holden vehicle as per the manufacturers specifications, preserving your statutory warranty.

Rawson Motors can perform log book service and repair on a wide range of vehicle types, makes and models in our Officer service centre.

You have the right to choose a mechanic for car service. Simply book a service for your Holden or contact Rawson Motors, tell us about your car and your last service and we can give you a quote today.

For a reliable log book service or repairs for your Holden vehicle contact Rawson Motors in Officer...

Holden Car Service and Repairs in Officer

Getting your car's air conditioning serviced every 12 months means you may avoid costly breakdowns now and in the future, and a well serviced automotive air conditioning system saves you money because it reduces the amount of fuel you use.

Rawson Motors care about the environment and have Arctick Authorisation (AU51705) to reliably and responsibly conduct automotive air conditioning regas, repairs, inspection and servicing.

Rawson Motors are the best choice to manage all your Automotive Air Conditioner Regas, Repairs, Servicing or Inspection needs in Officer and the surrounding areas.

Rawson Motors have Arctick Authorisation (AU51705) to reliably and responsibly conduct automotive air conditioning regas, repairs, inspection and servicing. Servicing your car's air conditioning every 12 months means you may avoid costly breakdowns.

Car Air Conditioning service in Officer

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We advise that our workshop will be closed for the Christmas period from the close of business on Wednesday the 21st of December and reopening on Tuesday the 3rd of January

We advise that we will be closed for the Easter long weekend from Friday 29th of March, reopening Tuesday 2nd of April

Rawson Motors take great pride in offering their clients personalised, and friendly service at all times. 

Conveniently located in Officer, the business is a member of the Repco Auto Tech training program, ensuring their technicians are kept fully up to date with modern vehicle repair methods. 

Rawson Motors have a wealth of experience in servicing all makes and models, including commercial fleet vehicles. As a Repco Authorised Service centre, they have a commitment to high quality workmanship, ensuring the very best in automotive care.

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