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Alan Dawson Autoworks & Recovery
Alan Dawson Autoworks & Recovery
Cars on the lifts at the Navan workshop that serves Dunshaughlin

Your garage for Dunshaughlin.

Fastest-growing town in Meath, longest commutes in Ireland, and a Main Street jammed with toll-dodging traffic. Dunshaughlin cars work hard. We keep them working, 16 km up the R147.

Find us Harristown, Navan
Workshop Mon to Sat Recovery 24/7
Call us (086) 446 1672
Google rated 5.0 from 14

Why do Dunshaughlin cars need servicing sooner?

Because they cover more road. Meath commuters average 35.2 minutes each way, the longest in Ireland, and a Dunshaughlin commuter car simply does more miles per year than the handbook assumes.

The CSO's Census 2022 figures show one in five Meath commuters travels an hour or more each way, the highest rate in the country. Add the town's own quirk, an estimated 10,000 vehicles a day leaving the motorway to skip the Blackbull toll and crawling through Main Street, and you get a duty cycle of hard motorway miles bookended by first-gear creep.

That pattern kills clutches, dual-mass flywheels and brake discs early. We schedule servicing on what your car actually does in a week, not what the calendar says, and we tell you honestly what can wait.

What goes wrong with the second car?

The DPF. In a two-car Dunshaughlin household, the second diesel rarely leaves town, school run, SuperValu, training on Drumree Road, and short runs never get hot enough to clean the filter.

A loaded DPF ends in limp mode, usually on the one morning the car was actually needed. Caught early it is a manageable job, sometimes just a supervised regeneration and honest advice on the driving pattern. Ignored, it becomes an expensive replacement.

If your dashboard has shown a DPF or engine light, or the car feels down on power around town, call and describe it. Our diagnostics will tell you which of the cheap fixes applies before anyone mentions the dear one.

Who covers breakdowns on the M3 at Dunshaughlin?

We do, 24/7. Junction 6 is your junction and we are sixteen kilometres up the road, so the flatbed reaches the M3, the R125 and the rural roads around Lagore and Culmullin fast.

Until the promised Navan rail line and its Dunshaughlin station exist, a dead car here means a missed day's work, there is no fallback. That is why 24/7 recovery is part of every relationship we have with this town: the same firm that services the car comes and gets it when something gives up between the tolls.

For the trades vans running heavy to Dublin sites through Junction 6, we also bring the van servicing depth the town itself does not have, every make welcome, with CVRT prep before the Navan test lanes.

What Dunshaughlin drivers book most

  • Mileage-based full and interim servicing
  • Clutch and dual-mass flywheel work
  • Brake discs and pads after the toll-queue grind
  • DPF diagnostics on second cars
  • Pre-NCT checks before Mullaghboy tests
  • Van servicing, every make
  • Suspension work after the R125 and estate ramps
  • 24/7 recovery on the M3 and R147

Common questions.

How far is your workshop from Dunshaughlin?

Sixteen kilometres, straight up the R147 or one junction on the M3 to Harristown on the Navan side. Most customers are with us inside twenty minutes, and for booked work we can arrange collection from the town or the estates.

Where do Dunshaughlin cars do the NCT?

At the Navan centre in Mullaghboy on the Athboy Road, which the RSA opened in 2021 to serve Dunshaughlin among other towns. Pair the test with a pre-NCT check at our workshop and the trip over happens once, ready to pass.

We just moved to one of the new estates. Why choose you?

Half of Dunshaughlin is in the same boat, The Willows, Fairfields, Grange Park and Lagore Lawn have filled since 2019, and picking a garage is one of those jobs that never gets done. Book one service, judge the work and the price, and decide then. That is how our regular customers started, one booked job at a time.

Can you service my work van around Dublin site hours?

Yes. Vans through Junction 6 run to site early, so we book early drop-offs and scheduled slots that fit the working day, and we prep the CVRT so the test is a formality. Collection and return can be arranged.

The car struggles in the Main Street crawl. What is wearing?

Creeping in first gear works the clutch and flywheel constantly, and repeated hard slowing from motorway speed wears discs and pads. If you feel judder, a high biting point or a soft pedal, have it looked at before it strands you in that same queue.

Do you cover the rural roads around Dunshaughlin?

Yes, the flatbed reaches Lagore, Roestown, Culmullin, Drumree and the Skryne direction day and night, and the workshop fixes the springs, bushings and tracking those roads and the estate ramps knock out.

Book from Dunshaughlin

Commuter car, second car or work van, tell us what it needs and when you are without it least. We will build the booking around that.

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