The hillside above town · 5 minutes, straight down Bench Hill
Larkspur Bench is steep. Your brakes know it.
Larkspur Bench sits five minutes above the shop, and every trip starts or ends on a grade. Brakes, parking brakes and batteries work harder up there. We price the jobs in the open, call with photos before 3, and our in-town shuttle drives you back up the hill.
What the Larkspur Bench roads do to a vehicle
Brakes wear from the top down
Every trip into town is downhill on the brakes, and every trip home is uphill on the engine. Front pads on the Bench often wear faster than the same car would on the flats, so we measure them at every oil change and tell you the millimetres.
Brakes, per axle · from $389Why do my brakes grind? →Parking brakes get used for real
Parking on a grade puts the parking brake to work every night. A stretched cable or glazed rear shoes show up as a handle that pulls too far. We adjust it during any brake job at no extra charge.
Brakes, per axle · from $389Short trips starve the battery
Five minutes down and five minutes back never fully recharges a battery after a cold start. The free battery test tells you where yours stands before a January morning does.
Battery & charging · test free, from $189 fittedWhy does my car battery die in the cold? →Getting the car to us
The shuttle covers the Bench
Drop the car off and we drive you home or to work anywhere in town, the Bench included. Nobody walks up Bench Hill on our account.
Key drop for early starts
Leave the keys in the slot by the office door on your way down, any hour. You get a text when the car is on the hoist.
From the job board
LARKSPUR BENCH
- Vehicle
- 2016 Honda Fit
- What the driver heard
- Parking brake handle pulling almost to the top, car creeping on the driveway.
- What we found
- Rear shoes glazed and the cable stretched. Photos texted at 10:20 a.m.
- The number
- $261.60 approved by phone, billed $261.60.
Coming from Larkspur Bench?
Say so in the booking and we plan the day around your drive. Morning drop-offs get their estimate call, with photos, before 3 p.m.