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Free from our shop

Worth keeping
in the glovebox

Plain-language guides written by the people who do the work. No email gate, no sales call, and nothing you need to sign up for. Print them, fold them, and forget about them until the day you need them.

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Start with this one

What your vehicle
is trying to tell you

Twelve of the things vehicles do to get your attention, what each one usually means, and how urgent it actually is. Noises, warning lights and the feelings you get through the wheel, written by the people who diagnose them all day.

12 symptoms4 pagesGlovebox sized
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Everything else

The rest of the shelf

Four more, all free, all written here rather than bought in.

Winter tires stacked in the shop
Seasonal

The South Dakota
winter checklist

Battery load, coolant mix, tire depth, wiper condition and the four things worth checking before the first hard freeze. Twenty below does not negotiate.

Get the checklist →
A technician working under a vehicle on the lift
Money

What repairs actually
cost around here

Straight ranges on brakes, alternators, water pumps and the other repairs folks ask us about most, priced for Sioux Falls rather than a national average.

See the ranges →
A colour coded inspection sheet and diagnostic tablet
Maintenance

The mileage schedule
that actually matters

What genuinely needs doing at 30, 60 and 100 thousand miles, and what can safely be left alone. One page, no upsell, works for most vehicles on the road here.

Get the schedule →
Work vans and a pickup parked inside the T&A service bays
Fleet

Keeping a small fleet
on the road

How to build a maintenance schedule around a work week, what to track per unit, and the intervals that keep vans and pickups earning instead of waiting.

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How this works

Free means free

We wrote these because they save people money, including money they might otherwise have spent with us.

Straight to you

Tell us which one you want and we send it over. Print it at home or keep it on your phone.

Written in the shop

Every guide comes from what we see in the bays here, not from a template someone else wrote.

Yours to keep

Pass them around, print extras for the crew, or leave one in each work truck. That is what they are for.

Send me a guide

Which one would help?

Pick the guide and we will send it over. One message, and we will leave you to it.

If you would rather just ask us the question directly, call (605) 339-9717 and we will talk it through.

We answer Monday through Friday during shop hours, and we will only use your details to send what you asked for.

Still not sure

Reading about it onlygets you so far

If your vehicle is doing something right now, describe it to us and we will tell you what it usually means. That conversation is free too.

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A T&A technician running diagnostics under the hood
Brake inspection on the lift
Mounting a tire on the balancer
Suspension work from underneath
Fitting a trailer hitch and wiring