KP Tuning
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Location
Birkenhead, Wallasey, Heswall, West Kirby, Hoylake, Bebington, Bromborough and Neston.
We cover the whole peninsula on a mobile basis, from Birkenhead and Wallasey across to West Kirby and Heswall and down to Neston and Bromborough. Most jobs happen on someone own driveway. There is no need to book anything into a workshop or arrange to be without the car for a day.
A large share of Wirral driving is short, cold and interrupted: a few miles to a tunnel, a queue at each end, then the same again coming home. For a diesel that is close to a worst case, because a particulate filter needs a sustained run at temperature and this pattern never provides one. It also means the engine spends much of its life below the temperature it was designed around, which brings SCR and AdBlue problems forward too. Salt air on the coastal side adds its own thing, mostly corroded connectors and earths that produce faults which look like failed sensors.
If you commute through the tunnel in a diesel and a DPF light has appeared, read the DPF page first, because the first thing to try costs nothing. If a sensor has been replaced and the fault came back, that is a diagnostics job and often a wiring problem rather than the part. If the car is healthy and you want it easier to drive in traffic, Stage 1 does its useful work exactly where peninsula driving lives.
Birkenhead, Wallasey, Heswall, West Kirby, Hoylake, Bebington, Bromborough, Neston, Eastham and New Brighton. We also travel across to Ellesmere Port and Chester, and into Liverpool where practical. If your town is not named, check areas we cover or ask, and we will tell you straight whether we can reach you.
The whole peninsula. Heswall, West Kirby, Hoylake, Neston, Wallasey, Bebington, Bromborough and New Brighton are all normal coverage, not a special journey.
For a diesel it can be, because short cold journeys with queueing at both ends are hard on a particulate filter and on the SCR system. It is worth knowing about before it turns into a warning light.