Whakatane / Murupara / Rotorua mechanics & towing

[sooby]

Hi guys,

Anyone know of some decent mechanics & towing companys around Whakatane / Murupara / Rotorua they can recommend?

Looks like we'll be traveling from Taupo to Whakatane on good friday & since I've had a few radiator pipes on my WRX burst over the last year or so, and I'm now a little nervous about getting stranded on side of the road.

I've tried a google & only come up with Commerce street Autos & marshall batteries for basic repairs / towing.

I'll be carrying a flagon or two of water & also duct tape, for what they are worth - my last leak was beneath the top mount intercooler & took a nechanic something like 6 hours to find & fix, so little chance of me joe average fixing that one...

Cheers!

[D-Style]

Murupara??? Drive with your windows locked and don make eye contact with locals!!!

Rotorua:

Bell Automotive is pretty good, thou at times a little on the expensive side.

Zero to 100 auto's is another good place.

There is a "subaru" workshop in Rotorua, thou cant remember name. Good. but like all things Subaru, very expensive.

[Mattdogg]

 D-Style said:

Murupara??? Drive with your windows locked and don make eye contact with locals!!!

Rotorua:

Bell Automotive is pretty good, thou at times a little on the expensive side.

Zero to 100 auto's is another good place.

There is a "subaru" workshop in Rotorua, thou cant remember name. Good. but like all things Subaru, very expensive.

If their open (Rotorua), Infomotive I've found are the most helpful.

I'd have a quick guess that most places will be closed today..

[driftrex]

 Mattdogg said:

I'd have a quick guess that most places will be closed today..

yea wont be any mechanics at all open til tuesday. adn a tow on a long weekend will cost you a fortune, just pray that you dont have any issues lol.

[wrx_lou]

Infomotive are shit when it comes to subaru's. And I've known them to rip many people off by doing work that didnt need to be done and charging them for it.

I think the subaru workshop your thinking of it Birchell and Maunder who are very expensive and from my experience I wouldnt be going there either.

Zero to 100 is good as they are open 7 days. And I've heard good stuff about bell other than the high price.

Cheapest place in town is Autotune. most of their work is pretty good and the guy owns two type r's. does alot of work on sub's and they do do towing sometimes. If your too far out though, they are right next to A1 towing.

[Guest keltik]

SCREW COMMERCE STREET AUTOS!

They suck ****. And should die.

Did a mates twin churbro rebuild and utterly raped her (3.5k to check heads and replace gaskets!).

Take it to Wally Sutherlands. They are a Subaru sub-dealer and have a pretty good tech team.

[Mattdogg]

Uncle Wally in Whakatane is pretty good

[sooby]

cheers guys - made it thru from Taupo > Ohope > Tauranga > Taupo no worries.

Stoked because it was a hot day and towing a trailer with 200kgs and no overheating issues, fingers crossed I'm over them (for now anyways)!

[Mattdogg]

If it's something your (obviously) concerned about, have you considered replacing all your hosing for flash 3 layer silicon stuff or whatever it is?

[Guest keltik]

The Ohope hill with 200kg on the back will test any cooling/braking system pretty well