Led lighting installation

This week we upgraded the entire lighting system on a discovery 3, completely transforming and updating the look. From interior led lighting to exterior led lighting all of our products are tested by us before we select anything for our customers. These bulbs were tested and approved by us in January (take a look through …

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LandRover Diagnostics, main dealer diagnostics for LandRover & jaguar

we have invested in dealer Diagnostics for LandRover and jaguar vehicles, LandRover SDD is the LandRover main dealer equipment this allows us to provide a LandRover main dealer service right to your door. Gel Automotive can provide a LandRover main dealer Diagnostic, coding and programming service right to your door in Suffolk, Essex or Norfolk. …

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Smart car clutch actuator adjustment

The smart 451 both petrol and diesel have a semi automatic gearbox, this means it has a mechanical setup but it uses actuators to move the mechanical parts based upon driver input ie changing gear. To manually adjust the clutch “bite point” you have to relearn the ECU values and adjust the physical actuator. By …

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Porsche Diagnostics

It was a delight to work on this beautiful Porsche in a bit so sunny Suffolk last week. The vehicle was booked in to have a diagnostic test pre service along with a sun roof reset and re learn. The client booked in with us as the Porsche labour and Diagnostic rate is over £100 …

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Audi Q3 mileage correction

Mileage correction for the Audi Q3 Yesterday we set off from Aldebrugh in Suffolk to Colchester in Essex to perform mileage correction for a local motor trader. The Audi Q3 had been water damaged and required mileage correction to display the correct mileage. The NEC equipment that underpins the dash electrics is one of our …

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Smoking, LandRover Dpf regeneration and carbon clean

Back the landrover discovery tdv6, so after much head scratching to solve the boost issues in our earlier post we lubricated the actuator arm and freed the actuator motor however the arm would not fully move and operate as it should, by using the boost data and arm position logs we did not see full …

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Ford key programming

Another ford for our ford IDS diagnostics to get into, this little fiesta came to us requiring a second key. The customer purchased a used key from an online retailer. At our first attempt of programming we were unable to match the key to the vehicle due to the key being faulty. We sourced a …

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Wet sanding, and polish

Today we got to work on cleaning up our little smart car. We were looking to freshen her up as the paint work had become dull and lacking gloss. The wet sand First of all we used our palm sander with some 2000 grit film to take a fine layer from the clear coat. The …

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LandRover discovery tdv6 egr p140a and turbo p132b faults

This LandRover discovery was recovered to us for diagnostics due to low power under 3000 rpm. We quickly got to work and found the following fault codes p140a and p132b the p140a related to the egr valve the most cost effective solution for the tdv6 is to disable the egr valve in the vehicles software, …

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