If you drive a truck for a living, you’ll be familiar with air valves in your commercial vehicle. They are responsible for controlling the heavy duty braking and suspension systems needed for larger vehicles. Here we explore their role in the smooth operation of your vehicle, the common faults that you may experience, and how […]

Those youngsters among you may not even remember life before remote key fobs. It was a strange time, when you had to stand right next to your car and fumble around with keys before opening it; when you had to remember to lock the back doors from the inside, and it was still possible to […]

If you've been reading our previous blog post about your car's anti-theft system – the immobiliser and how it's related to the ECU – you may remember that information from the key is read by the ECU to allow the car to start. The other piece of this puzzle is the transponder chip; that's the [...]

With some technical aspects of modern vehicles, we simply take them for granted. Take using a fob to casually lock and secure your vehicle as you walk away. It's easy and convenient, but do we really know the mechanics at play? Similarly, your immobiliser, ECU (Engine Control Unit) and key probably fall in to this bracket. We all [...]

Depending on the age of your vehicle, you may have a manual odometer – that thing measuring your mileage – which usually has white numbers on a black background slowly ticking around. If your car is new, you may have a digital odometer. The truth is, both are prone to faults when it comes to […]

We've all been there, casually walking away from our car with fob in hand, and testing it out to see how far away we can activate central locking from. You press the button and wait to hear that satisfying clunk… except, disaster! It doesn't seem to be working. Despite reducing the distance little by little, [...]

We are glad to announce that we now are offering a free collection service for your items, whenever you need to send them to us for repair. In partnership with DHL courier company, we can offer this convenient service by which DHL will pick the parcel up from your garage or shop and deliver it to our premises via […]

Summertime is a great time to enjoy the outdoors with your Yamaha motorbike. Dressing up your bike suit, feeling the speed, sensing the acceleration… all these feelings are fantastic. Unfortunately, this time of the year is also the one when more motorbike keys are broken, lost or not recognised by our customers’ motorcycles. Here at Autotronics we are […]

With our latest additions to our website, we can proudly say now that Autotronics has the most comprehensive and extensive range of instrument cluster repairs for Honda car manufacturer. So, if you or any of your acquaintances owns a Civic, a Jazz, an Accord, a CRV or any other of the Japanese manufacturer’s models and its instrument cluster is faulty, you can […]