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How To Jump-Start A Dead Battery
How To Jump-Start A Dead Battery A dead battery can be a frustrating experience, especially when it occurs unexpectedly. If you find yourself in such a situation, you need to know how to jump-start a dead battery. Jump-starting a dead battery is a simple process that...
Changing a Flat Tyre: A Step-by-Step Guide
Changing a Flat Tyre: A Step-by-Step Guide Getting a flat tyre is a common problem that every driver may face at some point. Whether you're driving in the city or on a long road trip, it's important to know how to change a flat tyre quickly and safely. In this...
Taking Care Of Your Heating System
Taking Care Of Your Heating System At this time of year, it’s hard to remember the blistering temperatures we experienced in the summer, isn’t it? While no one enjoyed climbing into an oven to make a journey, there was at least no additional pre-driving maintenance...
Christmas Gifts For Car Lovers
Christmas Gifts For Car Lovers We love Christmas at PDL MOT & Repairs. It’s amazing how many of our customers ask what kind of things they can buy for their car-fanatic family members and friends. We’ve recommended a few things that have been bought for us...
Cleaning Cloudy Headlights
Cleaning Cloudy Headlights In our long, well-established time of servicing vehicles, we understand that many car owners believe that maintaining headlights is only about making sure that all lightbulbs work. While this is true, there is more to it. Cloudy headlights...
What Do You Need To Do For An MOT?
What do you need to do for an MOT? For something that happens annually, it’s easy to forget what is required for an MOT, let alone what MOT even stands for. (It stands for Ministry of Transport; they originally created the test as a means to determine if cars were...
The Cost Of Using Air Con
The Cost Of Using Air Con In Your Vehicle Does air con use a lot of fuel? It’s widely speculated that using air conditioning in the car costs up to 10% in extra fuel consumption. Yet it’s not actually as black and white as it seems. While air conditioning IS powered...
How To Use Jump Leads
How To Use Jump Leads Jump starting with jump leads is a way of starting a car with a flat battery but if not used properly they can cause damage to both cars. If you need to jump-start your car, please do so with the advice we have for you and then please do contact...
How To Be More Fuel Efficient
How To Be More Fuel Efficient We are all trying to be savvier with our pennies these days with the insane increases in the cost of living. We have never lived in an age where fuel has been so expensive and with no signs of it coming down in the foreseeable future, now...