Mechanical Engineering expertise
15 January 2025

Mechanical Engineering expertise

It won't surpise many of you who run modern commuter cars that progressively most activity which takes place in a service department at a dealers these days is plugging in a port - and if no fault code is apparent - replacing items instead of digging deeper and seeing if items can be repaired. This is largely due to our "disposable" culture, but also reflects that mechanical training for staff these days as we approach the digital age, is not very extensive....

Here at RK Speedshop we relish the challenge of diagnostic faults and were all trained in an era when "fixing not replacing" was often the only solution. Imagine if you took this Jaguar V12 6 carburettor engined Cobra into your local Jaguar dealership for tuning...! With their controversial electric-only product range coming and cancellation of manufacturing any internal combustion engined cars predicted soon - you can guess the level of mechanical expertise left at their dealerships! Whilst internal combustion engines are on UK roads - you can be assured that RK Speedshop will be around to provide expert mechanical work for proper cars, where engineering is not restricted to changing a battery pack...