Get Your Vehicle Running Smoothly Again.

Your brakes are the most important safety feature your vehicle has. While other safety systems, such as airbags, can only act to reduce the severity of an accident, your brakes can act preventatively, and the condition of your brakes often means the difference between an accident and an emergency stop.

Your brakes suffer an astonishing amount of wear. Afterall, they routinely bring over a tonne of material, moving at high speeds, to a complete stop. For this reason we agree with brake manufacturers that you should have your brakes checked at least once a year.

Here at Jensen Automotive Service & Repair, we strongly recommend that you have your vehicle’s braking system inspected on a regular basis and that quality auto parts are used when given the choice.

Faults and flaws in your vehicle’s steering and suspension affect handling and ride comfort, causing issues like play in the steering wheel, body lean through corners, or vibration in the steering wheel at speed. Your suspension is also responsible for maximising the grip that your tyres exert on the road surface, so a poor suspension will also increase your stopping distance.

Here at Jensen Automotive Service & Repair, our skilled team of technicians can help you with:

• Shock absorbers, springs and struts

• Wheel alignments

• Bushing replacement

• Power steering repairs and replacement

As part of the assembly that transmits power from the engine to the wheels, your vehicle’s transmission is comprised of some of the most complex and intricate machinery in your entire vehicle. Due to their sophisticated nature, even minor flaws in your transmission can quickly escalate into extremely costly repairs. Common symptoms of issues with your transmission are:

• Whining and clunking, or a buzzing noise coming from your transmission

• Lack of response: gear change should be instantaneous

• Grinding noise or feeling when changing gears

• Noisy in neutral

• Dashboard lights

• Burning smell after a drive

• Fluid leaking when the vehicle is parked

If you notice any of the issues above, you probably have an issue with your vehicle’s transmission. Here at Jensen Automotive Service & Repair, our skilled team of mechanics can help you with:

• Automatic transmissions

• Manual transmissions

• Clutches

• Servicing

• Repair

• Differentials

• CV Joints

Engineered to precision and designed to convert petrol and diesel into power, a vehicle’s engine is its beating heart, and problems here can take a drastic toll on your vehicle’s overall performance and fuel economy. Regular servicing and checks will minimise issues with your engine, keeping it in proper working order and ensuring you can get the most out of your vehicle.

At Jensen Automotive Service & Repair, we are passionate about modern and classic vehicle engines and can assist customers with:

Inspections

Repairs

Part replacements if needed

EFI diagnostics

Replacing timing chains and belts

Cylinder head repairs

Head gasket repairs

Modern passenger vehicles come what is known in the automotive industry as a four-stroke engine. An engine that operates on a four-stroke cycle to spin the camshaft once and the crankshaft twice. This relationship between the camshaft and crankshaft is called “mechanical timing”, which moves the valves and pistons inside of the engine cylinder via a timing belt or chain.

However, as advancements in modern engineering continue to improve vehicle performance, so too does the complexity of a vehicle’s engine components, including the timing belt and chain. To keep a vehicle operating at its peak performance, your vehicle will need regular inspection and servicing by a qualified mechanic.

Timing belts last roughly 7 to 10 years, or 100,000km to 150,000km, whichever comes first – but you should always check your specific vehicle’s timing chain or belt service schedule requirements as these figures vary.

If your belt breaks while driving, it will cause piston damage, ruined cylinder heads, and engine valve damage, effectively ruining your engine. They don’t need replacing often, but the consequences of neglect are disastrous.

Here at Jensen Automotive Service & Repair, our skilled mechanics can help you to detect any timing belt or chain problems and recommend replacement parts or repairs if necessary.

The amount of heat generated by your vehicle’s engine needs to be quickly and effectively dispersed away from the engine bay, so as to give the engine a safe operating temperature in which to deliver its optimum performance and fuel efficiency.

Damage to your vehicle’s radiator unit or blockages throughout the cooling system can adversely affect your vehicle’s health, potentially even resulting in an inconvenient breakdown. Before you find yourself stranded at the roadside with an overheating engine, bring your vehicle to us at Jensen Automotive for a check of your cooling system.

At Jensen Automotive Service & Repair we provide a comprehensive range of services and repairs for your cooling system, including:

Radiator and heater unit repairs or replacement

Flushing and draining of radiator units

Removal of blockages caused by rust and scale deposits

Water pump lubrication

Pressure testing to detect leaks

Testing and replacement of faulty thermostats

Head gasket repairs

When summer hits Western Australia, the weather becomes increasingly unbearable outside and the last thing most people want to do is climb into a vehicle with no air conditioning system.

At Jensen Automotive Service & Repair, automotive air conditioning inspections and repairs are carried out by our highly skilled mechanics, with hoses and seals checked for leaks and replaced if cracked, along with faulty compressors and condensers. Once we’re satisfied with your car air conditioning, we’ll regas it with the refrigerants it needs to keep your vehicle’s interior cool all summer long. As an ARC-licensed workshop, all of our car air conditioning services are conducted per Australian regulations. We also offer disinfecting services if your aircon produces any strange smells.

What makes your vehicle’s air conditioning system unique to most other areas of your vehicle is that wear and tear in your air con is caused more by disuse than use. During the cooler months, when you might only occasionally use your air con to demist your cabin, the hoses and seals that form part of your car air conditioning system develop cracks and leaks as the rubber grows dry and stiff.

As vehicles have increased in sophistication, more and more functionality is being governed by the auto electrical network. This network helps with braking, gear changes, even monitors your engine, and will put your vehicle into limp mode if a serious flaw is detected, to prevent lasting damage.

With their ever-increasing complexity these networks are incredibly useful in helping technicians discover exactly what the issue with the vehicle is. Auto electricians, or diagnosticians, need specialised scan tools and a wide and deep knowledge base to take advantage of these networks’ error-reporting capabilities.

Here at Jensen Automotive we are fully equipped and trained to help you with:

Diagnostics

EFI diagnostics

Diesel diagnostics

Common Rail diesel diagnostics