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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 40, 26 November 1938, Page 9

SEE TO - YOUR TYRES - - YOUR TYRES - You Owe it to Your Own Safety and Your Car’s Smooth Running. Tyre Repair & Sales East Street, Ashburton.

CARS AND MOTOR CYCLES. MOTOR CYCLISTS. WE have Dismantled for Spares—• A.J.S . Indian, Matchless, 8,5. A., Harley Davidson, and Douglas. Motor Cycles. D. A. DAHLBERG, Motor-cycle Engineer, The Triangle, ’Phone 265. USED CARS. Austin 7—30 Model; £7O. ford • Delivery, steel tray, £2O. Long Spring CHEV. Tourer, £4O. CURRAN BROS., Havelock Street. Headquarters—Vauxhall and Pontiac Cars; Bedford Trucks. DON’T spoil your holiday with motoring worries. See that your battery and electrical equipment are in perfect order. Consult— W. NEWLANDS, BATTERY SERVICE STATION, Tancred St., ’Phone 6G3.

AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (CANTERBURY). MID-CANTERBURY MEMBERSHIP APPROACHING 1000. Join up now and take advantage of the association’s many benefits, including day and night free road service and S.I.M.U. motor insurance scheme. Invested funds exceed £120,000 and assets total £135,410. Profits returned last year £4380 and this year £6854, equivalent to 33 1-3 increase. JOHN BATHGATE, 101 Burnett Street, Mid-Canterbury Representative.

•P T. F. SMITH PLUMBER ' ] JANCRED STRtl' 'Phonps 143 and 5-4 7 I . A MUFFLER AT FAULT. ™NOT THE TIMING A car recently suffered trouble which from the symptoms appeared to he in tlio timing. TTln? engine would idl‘G *xitcL run perfectly uj> to 15 miles per hour but when a- load was put on it or ail endeavour made to speed it up it would hunt or gallop. After carefully checicjner the diffenent units thought to be. atlault tiie trouble was found to be in the muffler. The rear baffle plate. ha.v~ iuo- become detached from the shell, wi”s blocking" the outlet and preventing free exhaust. To overcome the trouble a new muffler was installed.