Find auto electrical help in your part of Adelaide

Adelaide is compact, but the auto electrical work still changes a lot across it. City cars sit in basements and do short trips. Port Adelaide and the beaches deal with salt air and boat trailers. Industrial areas like Wingfield, Edinburgh and Lonsdale run trucks, vans and forklifts all day, while the hot northern and southern suburbs are full of family cars, utes and caravans heading for the country. Start with your area:

What Adelaide does to vehicle electrics

Adelaide is hard on vehicle electrics in a few particular ways. These four account for a lot of the work auto electricians do here:

• Summer heat. Adelaide reached 47.7°C at Kent Town and Parafield Airport on 24 January 2019, its hottest day on record. Heat like that shortens battery life and works radiator fans, relays and air conditioning hard. See common car air conditioning problems.
• Salt air. From the Port River and the Lefevre Peninsula down the gulf beaches to the southern coast, salt air corrodes battery terminals, earth straps, trailer plugs and lights unless they're cleaned and sealed. See how to clean corroded battery terminals.
• Country trips. Adelaide is the starting point for trips to the Barossa, Yorke Peninsula, the Flinders Ranges and the outback. Caravans and camper trailers need good lights, brakes and a charging feed that works over long distances. See why a caravan battery isn't charging while towing.
• Freight and industry. The North-South Corridor and the Port River Expressway carry trucks between the northern industrial areas, the port and the south. Fleets in places like Wingfield, Regency Park and Edinburgh need 24V lighting, charging and starting faults fixed fast. See how to read fault codes with an OBD2 scanner.

Looking for an auto electrician?

Our Adelaide auto electricians directory lists local businesses by area, with the kind of work each one does: mobile callouts, diagnostics, air conditioning, 4WD and caravan fit-outs, trucks and plant. Listings are checked by hand before they go up.

Doing the auto electrical job yourself?

If you're fitting a dual battery, replacing a trailer plug or wiring in driving lights for a trip up north, the right part matters as much as the right technique. Our free guides cover the how-to, and you can order quality parts online from Ozautoelectrics, dispatched Australia-wide.