Oldfields Garage & Vehicle Hire

Oldfields Garage & Vehicle Hire The multi-award winning professional team at Oldfields Garage have been taking care of Leominster vehicles since 1991. We are

We care about our team, our customers and their vehicles. Oldfields Garage Services in Leominster is a professional family run garage who carry out MOT testing, repairs, diagnostic checks & air con work. We also offer Car and Van Hire.

The oil change is twenty minutes of the job.The report is the reason it's worth booking.The Oldfields Service is an insp...
08/09/2026

The oil change is twenty minutes of the job.

The report is the reason it's worth booking.

The Oldfields Service is an inspection with an oil change in the middle of it. We drain the oil, renew the filter and refill with the specification your engine was built for, which we match to your reg from over twenty Castrol approvals.

Then comes the part that actually matters, which is an emailed report on the condition of the car telling you what needs doing now and what can wait until spring.

Book The Oldfields Service with your reg at https://www.oldfieldsgarage.co.uk/book/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sep26-servicing&utm_content=fbli-service-not-oil-change

Nothing gets touched on your car until you say yes.That isn't a policy we wrote for September; it's how the workshop has...
01/09/2026

Nothing gets touched on your car until you say yes.

That isn't a policy we wrote for September; it's how the workshop has run for years.

Over 270,000 cars were registered in September 2023, and the ones still on the road turn three this month, which means a first MOT. When a garage is busy, the worry is always the same: the list quietly grows while the car is out of sight. So if the test finds something, you get a call telling you what failed and what it costs. Then you decide.

Book in with your reg at https://www.oldfieldsgarage.co.uk/book/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sep26-mot&utm_content=fbli-mot-authorisation

31/08/2026

A sensor does not have to fail to give you the wrong answer.

The manifold absolute pressure sensor reads the pressure inside the intake. Owen pulled this one out and it was blocked solid with carbon. Nothing broken about it. It was just no longer able to read anything accurately, and the engine had been acting on those readings.

Carbon like this builds up on diesels that never get properly hot. Short trips around town, low mileage, engine off before it has warmed through. The car is barely being used, which feels like the opposite of wear, and the deposits build anyway.

If that is how your diesel lives, it is worth knowing what is collecting inside it.

An MOT doesn't check your engine. Or your clutch. Or your gearbox.It asks one question. Is this car dangerous to drive r...
27/08/2026

An MOT doesn't check your engine. Or your clutch. Or your gearbox.

It asks one question. Is this car dangerous to drive right now?

Which is why a pass is a photograph. It tells you what the car looked like at twenty to ten on a Tuesday morning, and nothing after that.

Not that it's a box-tick. Around one in twelve cars arrive with a defect dangerous enough that it can't legally be driven away. It catches real problems on the vehicle but with a much narrower scope.

If yours is due in September, book it in August. It’s our busiest month of the year, and coming in early keeps your renewal date.

Book in with your reg at https://www.oldfieldsgarage.co.uk/book/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=aug26-mot-season&utm_content=fbli-mot-season-3

25/08/2026

You cannot see a crack in an intake manifold.
You can see the smoke coming out of it.

The customer authorised stage two, so Owen moved from shortlist to proof. First test on the plan: smoke the intake manifold, using the Hella Gutmann SLD tool. These crack, and a crack was top of the list.

Inside that manifold are runner flaps, with a small motor on the end controlling them. Fill the system with smoke and any leak gives itself away. Smoke came out around that housing. Either it has cracked or a seal has let go, and that is the next thing to establish.

That explains some of the codes. Not all of them, and that matters. The test plan carries on until every one is accounted for.

This is what the assessment buys you. Not a theory about what it might be. A leak you can point at.

Get booked in at https://www.oldfieldsgarage.co.uk/book/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=aug26-diagnostics&utm_content=fbli-smoke-test

Air conditioning doesn't use gas up. It's a sealed system but over enough time that gas still slowly leaks out.The refri...
21/08/2026

Air conditioning doesn't use gas up. It's a sealed system but over enough time that gas still slowly leaks out.

The refrigerant carries the oil that lubricates the compressor. Run the system low all summer and you're wearing out the most expensive parts to avoid an inexpensive job. Which is why putting it off until next spring is the wrong way round.

It's also why we leak test and diagnose before we regas. Filling a system that's losing gas is a slower version of the same problem.

R134a and R1234yf, both here on site.

Get booked in at https://www.oldfieldsgarage.co.uk/book/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=aug26-aircon&utm_content=fbli-aircon-regas

20/08/2026

Technical data lists everything a fault code could be but it doesn’t tell you which one it is.

Owen has four technical data platforms open for this Volvo. Between them they give him the known patterns behind these codes. A split intake manifold. Wiring that chafes on the EGR pipe and shorts out.

That is a guide to possible causes for the fault, not an instruction manual for the car.

Owen compares it to a funnel. Start wide, narrow it, narrow it again, until one thing drops out the bottom.

Replacing the part the code names is the quickest way to fix nothing.Owen spends most of his week proving that.Carbon bu...
17/08/2026

Replacing the part the code names is the quickest way to fix nothing.

Owen spends most of his week proving that.

Carbon builds up inside an engine over time, and short journeys build it faster. Get enough of it on a sensor and the readings stop being reliable. The car logs a fault, the fault names the sensor, a new one goes on, and a few weeks later the light is back. Nothing has dealt with why it happened.

Our diagnostic assessment is built for that second question. Visual inspection, full system scan, live data, and someone who knows how to read it.

Get booked in at https://www.oldfieldsgarage.co.uk/book/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=aug26-diagnostics&utm_content=fbli-carbon-buildup

13/08/2026

An apprentice fitted the clutch and flywheel on this one.

Not because we were short of technicians. Because he was ready for it.

Clutch replacement is one of the bigger jobs that comes through the workshop. Gearbox out, flywheel off, and then everything has to go back together correctly aligned. Alignment is the part that catches people out. Get it wrong and either the box will not mate up, or it will and the clutch pays for it a few thousand miles later.

Kyle worked out the right setup from the kit and used the alignment tool rather than eyeing it up and hoping. Done once, done properly.

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C1-C3 Brunel Road
Leominster
HR60LX

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Monday 8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 5pm

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