Logbook servicing
10,000 km, 20,000 km and 50,000 km services carried out to the manufacturer schedule, so your new-car warranty stays intact. Toyota, Honda, Kia, Mazda, Hyundai and European makes.
Hi-Tech Mufflers & Auto Services Surry Hills mechanic & exhaust specialists
Well established workshop on Bourke Street, Surry Hills. Logbook servicing, pink slips, brakes and suspension, plus custom-built exhaust systems we have been making for fifty years. Straight answers, fair prices, and your car back on the road.
- 50 years of exhaust fabrication
- Authorised safety check & pink slips
- MTA NSW member workshop
- Japanese, European & Australian makes
Car servicing and mechanical repairs in Surry Hills
One workshop for the whole car. Book a service, get a pink slip, or bring us a noise you cannot place and we will tell you what it actually is before we touch it.
We work on everything from daily-driven hatchbacks to classics and performance cars, and we have been doing it on this corner of Surry Hills for decades.
Pink slips & eSafety Check
Authorised safety check for cars and light vehicles. Rego renewal inspections handled on site, with the result lodged electronically for Service NSW.
Computer diagnostics
Engine and electrical fault finding with scan tools, not guesswork. We read the codes, then work out what is really causing them.
Brakes, wheels & tyres
Pads, discs, fluid, handbrake adjustment, tyre replacement and balancing. Squeal, shudder and spongy pedals sorted the same day where we can.
Steering & suspension
Shocks, struts, bushes, ball joints and steering components. The parts that take the worst of Sydney's back streets and speed humps.
Batteries, oils & filters
Battery testing and replacement, oil changes, plus air and cabin filters. Quick jobs we will fit in around a service.
Air conditioning
Regas, leak testing and repairs, so the first hot week in November is not the week you find out it stopped working.
Gearbox & transmission
Fluid services, diagnosis and repair for manual and automatic transmissions, including clutch work.
General repairs & fabrication
Engine electrical, cooling, general maintenance, and steel fabrication work in our own workshop when an off-the-shelf part will not do.
Custom exhaust systems and mufflers, built on site
Fifty years of high-performance mufflers and custom exhaust work. Not a catalogue part ordered in and bolted on: a system measured, bent and welded for your car, in our Surry Hills workshop.
We carry our own racks of tube and muffler stock, which is why a custom job here does not mean waiting a fortnight for parts.
Custom-made systems
Performance exhausts built to suit the car and the sound you are after, from the manifold back.
Repairs & replacement
Blowing gaskets, rusted-through pipes, broken hangers and rattling heat shields, repaired rather than replaced where it makes sense.
Noise you can live with
Too loud fails a defect check. We will tell you honestly what a system will sound like before we build it.
Inside the workshop
Two bays, a rotary lift, our own tube stock and fifty years of accumulated tooling. A Motor Traders' Association of NSW member workshop, and an authorised safety check station.
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Classics and performance cars are routine here, not an event. -
Our own tube and muffler stock, so custom work does not wait on suppliers. -
Fifty years of tooling, and everything still has its place on the board.
Your local mechanic for Surry Hills and the inner east
We are on Bourke Street in Surry Hills, a few minutes from Darlinghurst, Redfern, Paddington and the Sydney CBD. Most customers drop the car in the morning, head into the city for the day, and pick it up on the way home. Regulars come to us from Potts Point, Waterloo, Zetland, Alexandria and Bondi Junction.
Suburbs we regularly look after
- Sydney CBD (2000)
- Haymarket (2000)
- Barangaroo (2000)
- Broadway (2007)
- Chippendale (2008)
- Pyrmont (2009)
- Surry Hills (2010)
- Darlinghurst (2010)
- Potts Point (2011)
- Elizabeth Bay (2011)
- Kings Cross (2011)
- Rushcutters Bay (2011)
- Alexandria (2015)
- Redfern (2016)
- Waterloo (2017)
- Zetland (2017)
- Botany (2019)
- Mascot (2020)
- Paddington (2021)
- Centennial Park (2021)
- Bondi Junction (2022)
- Woollahra (2025)
- Bondi (2026)
- Darling Point (2027)
- Double Bay (2028)
- Rose Bay (2029)
- Vaucluse (2030)
- Randwick (2031)
- Kingsford (2032)
- Kensington (2033)
- Maroubra (2035)
- Marrickville (2204)
Common questions
Do you do pink slips in Surry Hills?
Yes. We are an authorised inspection station for cars and light vehicles, so we can carry out the safety check you need to renew your registration, and lodge the result electronically. "Pink slip" is the everyday name for it; Transport for NSW calls it an eSafety check.
Will servicing here void my new-car warranty?
No. Australian Consumer Law lets you have your car serviced by any qualified mechanic without losing the manufacturer's warranty, provided the work follows the manufacturer's schedule and the logbook is stamped. That is exactly how we service them.
Can you build a custom exhaust for my car?
Almost certainly. We have been making mufflers and exhaust systems for fifty years, across most makes and models. Call us with the car, the year and what you are trying to achieve, and we will tell you what is realistic and what it will cost.
Do you work on European cars?
Yes, alongside Japanese, Korean and Australian-delivered vehicles. Servicing, diagnostics and exhaust work.
Do I need to book?
For a service, pink slip or exhaust build, ring ahead so we can set aside the time. If something has gone wrong on the road, call anyway and we will tell you honestly whether we can look at it today.
Visit the workshop
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Hi-Tech Mufflers & Auto Services
Shop 5, 342-344 Bourke Street
Surry Hills NSW 2010 (opens in Google Maps in a new tab) - 0412 602 885
Workshop entrance on Bourke Street. Mechanical, rego and exhaust bays are all on the one frontage.
Opening hours
| Monday to Friday | 7:30am - 4:30pm |
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| Saturday | 8:00am - 1:00pm |
| Sunday | Closed |
