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

Rawson Motors in Officer is a licensed roadworthy inspection station and can issue roadworthy certificates for vehicles that pass the roadworthy  assessment test.  				

A roadworthy inspection includes checking:

A roadworthy inspection is not a comprehensive full vehicle inspection. Talk to us today about the different types of inspections available at Rawson Motors and which one will best suit your needs. 

Book a roadworthy inspection at Rawson Motors today.

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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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