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Empower your customers with knowledge
Does your customer know what brake testing involves? Does he or she understand it? It’s easy to forget, with the focus on the car, that there is actually a PERSON who owns it. We can offer so many different options to our service customers – things to make the car...
“Innovation distinguishes between leaders and followers” – Steve Jobs
At SafeTstop, we prefer to lead. In recent weeks, it has become more difficult for our specialist technicians to travel interstate and to New Zealand. We have responded by producing detailed video guides for new customers! So if we can't get to you, you can now...
Leading the industry with research
You’ve been testing brakes for years, but what do you find with a road test? If the vehicle’s braking distance is 2 metres longer than it should be, what happens in an emergency? Side to side and front to rear brake balance are crucial to stop a car in the shortest...
Don’t Undersell our Industry
“We are a group of highly-skilled, trained and educated professionals that are exposed to more advancement in technology and vehicle development than we have ever been exposed to in the past.” Written by Craig Baills, SafeTstop Partner, Toowoomba The value of our...
Your Service Advisor is vital to your business (even if it’s YOU!)
Learn together to provide the service your customers want and need, with SAFETSTOP and your people, too. Make the decision today – what are you waiting for? Build your business with SAFETSTOP - supported by the Workshop Whisperer! Choose from these dates: Adelaide -...
Industry Awareness – Our Trade, Our Future
Written by Craig Baills, SafeTstop Partner, Toowoomba It’s no secret that our industry is moving faster than ever into the future, and along with this comes many challenges, experiences and outcomes that we as business owners and mechanics had never in our dreams...
Customers Need to be Part of the Service
Written by Craig Baills, SafeTstop Partner, Toowoomba Our industry, Our trade is at a crossroads! A crossroads of progression, technology, change and development. We have seen more change in the past ten years than ever before and the next 10 will be a whirlwind of...
Workshop Networking: The Way of the Future
Times are changing, and we are seeing major changes in motoring technology, especially with hybrid and fully electric vehicles. The need for professional, industry-endorsed workshops has become critical as independent workshops battle to survive in a competitive...
Trade Education Event Held In The Hunter Valley
The video is a recording of an IAME (Institute of Automotive Mechanical Engineers) Trade Education event held in the Hunter Valley, also supported by Penrite and Capricorn. The video outlines the two accepted methods of CHECKING brakes (both are on-road tests). These...
SafeTstop Steers The Diagnostic Process
When a new customer contacted me to look at an ongoing anti-lock braking system (ABS) issue with their 2009 KUN26R Toyota HiLux, after being recommended by a Melbourne workshop, I was up for the challenge. After talking with the owner and getting as much of the...