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Where the work happens
Trucks and machinery are seen where they stand; that is most of the work. Cars and vans are usually quicker and cheaper in the workshop, because the equipment does not have to be carried to them. Bench work on a control unit only happens at Hatfield Lane.
A mobile auto electrician who says everything can be done at the roadside is either carrying a workshop in a van or is not doing some of the work. Both vans here carry a scope, a bench power supply, a hydraulic press for terminals, a full set of connector bodies and enough cable to rebuild a loom section in a field. What they do not carry is a microscope, an extraction arm and a hot-air station, because those things do not work on gravel in the wind.
So the split is real and it is worth explaining rather than hiding, because it is also the cheapest advice on this website: for a car or a van, bringing it here is usually both faster and less expensive.
Machinery is seen where it stands. Trucks and machinery are seen where they stand, because a machine in a field cannot come to a workshop and a truck standing still is losing money by the hour. Cars and vans are usually quicker and cheaper here. Bench work on a control unit only happens at Hatfield Lane.
Trucks, trailers, tractors, combines, balers, sprayers, plant and anything that would need a low-loader to move. Also anything that will not start and is somewhere a tow would cost more than the job.
Cars, vans and pickups, and anything that needs the vehicle left for a drain test or a fault to be provoked over several days. The bay is deep enough for a tractor unit and there is a pit at the back of it.
Control units only, and always here. A module can be posted or dropped in on its own — quite a few of them arrive from workshops rather than from owners, which is a normal thing in this corner of the trade.
By job
Everything else on the rate card is either in the workshop or can go either way, and the telephone call decides which. A job that can go either way is listed at the workshop hour. Done where the vehicle stands rather than here, the same hours are at the on-site hour, $185.
From the middle of July to the end of October one of us is on call in the evenings and at weekends for machinery that is standing in a field. That is a harvest arrangement and it is charged at the after-hours rate, which is published like everything else.
What that is not is a twenty-four-hour emergency service. Five people cannot honestly promise to answer any telephone at any hour of any day, and a workshop that advertises one is either much larger than this or is going to disappoint somebody in October. Naming the months, the hours and the rate is the version of that promise which can actually be kept.
$145 a workshop hour · $185 on site · agreed before it starts
The symptom check takes about three minutes and gives you a written summary of which circuits would be tested first and why, with the hours and the published rate against each. It is an indicative scope and not a diagnosis — nobody has seen the vehicle — but it is a better opening than a blank contact form. If you would rather skip it, the telephone works.