Peel Car Repair Guide is an independent informational website for drivers in Brampton, Mississauga, Caledon and the rest of Peel Region, Ontario. It explains the rules that apply when a car needs repairs, an inspection, tires or a new owner, and it points each time to the government or regulator page that holds the current text.
This guide is independent
This guide is independent. It is not affiliated with any business that previously used this domain or with any similarly named business. It is not connected with any repair shop, dealership, tire retailer, inspection station, insurer or manufacturer, and it does not recommend or rank any of them.
What this guide covers
The pages cover repair estimates and invoices and the repair warranty under Ontario's Consumer Protection Act, 2002, the Safety Standards Certificate, winter tires and the insurance discount, the end of Drive Clean testing, maintenance, warning lights, brakes, road salt and rust, buying a used car, private sales, recalls and choosing a shop.
What this site is not
This site does not repair or inspect vehicles, give quotes, take bookings, sell parts or tires, or sell insurance. It cannot diagnose a fault from a description, and it cannot say whether a particular invoice, estimate or sale complies with the law. It does not publish reviews, ratings or lists of shops.
How the pages are prepared
The pages draw on Ontario government pages and statutes, Skilled Trades Ontario, the Ontario Motor Vehicle Industry Council (OMVIC), the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA), the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks and Transport Canada. Rules, fees and deadlines are written with the year they were checked. A fact that could not be confirmed against an official source was left out rather than guessed. Pages are reviewed when the underlying rules change.
Verify before you act
Regulations, fees and programs change. Before you rely on any rule described here, open the official page linked from the article and confirm that it still says the same thing. Nothing on this site is legal, insurance, financial or mechanical advice. For a dispute about a specific repair or purchase, the bodies that decide are the courts and the regulators named on each page.
Corrections and suggestions
If you find an error, an outdated rule or a broken link, or want to suggest a topic, please use the contact page. Name the page and the sentence and, if you can, include a link to the official source.