Galmatic

Hands up if you can confidently change your car’s tyre. Look, I’d give it a red hot bash, but up until a few weeks ago I’d probably just as quickly call RACQ to come and do it for me. I’ll also own up to calling a friend years ago (when I was a poor student and didn’t prioritise RACQ membership) because I had ZERO idea of what I was doing. (Let’s face it, I was 20yrs old, that statement applies to that whole chapter of my life).
It’s time to move on, though, because a few Sundays ago I went to an all-​girl car care workshop, where RACQ is referred to as «the R word». Why? Because we can change our own tyres. We can maintain our cars by doing monthly checks under the bonnet. We can do a lot before we need to pick up that phone! I was probably the most interested in the monthly checks, because our leader used each of our cars to demonstrate each of the five things to be checked under the bonnet. I’m not going to tell you the five things because you should just go to a Galmatic workshop yourself, ladies.
Speaking of our leader — she was great. Not a qualified mechanic (so a few questions we asked weren’t able to be answered — perhaps the only downside) but just a lady, mad about cars. While she didn’t have the answer to everything, she had an excitement about cars that she somehow managed to pass along to each of us (at least for our own car) in a two-​hour session that just flew by. Highly recommended.