Welcome to Car Tune the home of classic car tuning. Established for over 40 years, your car is in safe hands with experience and expert knowledge.

We are both Crypton and Sun Electric trained and have been tuning all classic makes and models since 1983. We offer a while you wait classic car tune up service seven days a week at our base in Cambridgeshire, postcode PE149PJ or we can quote you for a mobile Crypton tune up service covering most of the UK. The quickest and cheapest way to get your classic car Crypton tuned is to take advantage of our while you wait Crypton tune up service available 7 days a week.

Our mobile classic car tuning service coverage area extends to most of the UK including Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, North London and Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicester, Northampton, Norwich, Peterborough, Huntingdon, Ipswich, Colchester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Derby, Birmingham, Coventry, Oxford, Chelmsford, Maldon, Slough, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, South Wales, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Surrey and beyond.

A small sample of our work

Visit us or we can come to you...

We offer a mobile service for classic cars, or you can visit us for our best price.

TUning Classic Cars

We tune all makes and models, we can come to your home or place of work or save money and come to us in Cambridge, postcode PE149PJ

Carburettor Tuning

We are carburettor tuning experts and cover SU carburettors as well as Weber DCOE and Dellorto, other types of carburettor we tune include Solex Zenith Stormberg  Pierburg Edelbrock and Holly carburettors plus many more.

We are able to provide a mobile service for electronic ignition conversion as well as a carburettor repair service.

Fault Finding

Do you have a none starting classic or retro car?  we can help, we trace the faults to get the car started or diagnose running issues.

 

We tune all makes and models, we can come to your home or place of work or save money and come to us in Cuffley Hertfordshire.

Carburettor Tuning

We are carburettor tuning experts and cover SU carburettors as well as Weber DCOE and Dellorto,  other types of carburettor we tune include Solex, Zenith, Stormberg,  Pierburg, Edelbrock, and Holly carburettors plus many more.

We are able to provide a mobile service for electronic ignition conversion as well as a carburettor repair service.

Fault Finding

Do you have a none starting classic or retro car?  we can help, we trace the faults to get the car started or diagnose running issues.

 

Classic Engine Tuning

We offer a full range of tuning services, vehicles we cover include cars vans and motor homes we tune up American classic cars as well as all kit cars. We provide a classic car diagnostic test on all engine and carburettor and ignition related faults as well as engine condition checks which include compression testing and power balance testing.

At Car Tune we also use a high specification gas analyser to diagnose and tune all carburettor and injection systems.

Crypton Tuning

Using the Crypton oscilloscope we are able to video wave forms of ignition systems and play back the fault taking the guesswork of diagnosing a problem.  Tracing misfires on ignition systems is quick and accurate. We are able to test coil outputs ignition advance devices accurately. Balancing carburettors using vacuum gauges and gas equipment is standard practice. 

We also fit electronic ignition systems by converting your existing distributor of fitting a new modern type like a 123 distributor.

American Classic Engine Tuning

We tune all American classic cars. We offer a mobile American classic car tune up service or customers can save money and come to us for a while you wait classic car tune up service.

Classic Kit Car Tuning

We tune up all makes of classic kit cars, we have a wealth of experience tuning all classic car engines and carburettors.

Some of the services we offer

Areas Covered

If you need A mobile service, then we can come to your home or place of work. Here’s a list of the general areas we cover: If your location is not shown on the map we may still be able to help, please get in touch, call Tony direct on 07860 229516 Click on directions on the map to find our location.

  • North London
  • Hertfordshire
  • Essex
  • Barnet
  • Basildon
  • Bedford
  • Biggleswade
  • Billericay
  • Birmingham
  • Bishop’s Stortford
  • Braintree
  • Brentwood
  • Kettering
  • Chelmsford
  • Colchester
  • Corby
  • Bradwell On Sea
  • Burnham On Crouch
  • Bury St Edmunds
  • Brentwood
  • Buntingford
  • Cambridge
  • Canvey Island
  • Cheshunt
  • Chelmsford
  • Downham Market
  • Ely
  • Enfield
  • Grays
  • Harlow
  • Leicester
  • Surrey
  • Bukinghamshire
  • Hatfield
  • Ipswich
  • Harold Hill
  • Hemel Hempstead
  • Hertford
  • Hockley
  • Huntingdon
  • King’s Lynn
  • Luton
  • Maldon
  • March
  • Newmarket
  • Northampton
  • Norwich
  • Nottingham
  • Peterborough
  • Rayleigh
  • Romford
  • Royston
  • South Benfleet
  • Southend On Sea
  • Southminster
  • South Woodham Ferrers
  • St. Albans
  • Stevenage
  • Suffolk
  • Tilbury
  • Watford
  • Wickford
  • Wisbech
  • Kent
  • Oxford
  • Ely
  • Chatteris
  • Huntingdon

If your area is not listed we can still help, please get in touch.

Contact us






    Opening Times Mon to Fri 8 am to 5 pm | Sat & Sun 9 am to 3 pm

    FAQs

    We now offer a UK nationwide mobile classic car engine tuning service

    Not a problem, we work on all makes and models of American and imported classic cars

    Yes no problem. Watch your car being tuned or enjoy the facilities Cuffley village has to offer.

    Most classic car tune ups take between 30 minuets and one hour.

    Crypton tuning involves adjustments made to the ignition and carburettors using Crypton tuning equipment to achieve the optimum performance and economy of an engine. The Crypton tuning equipment has many other features which aid the operator to pinpoint running concerns and starting issues of classic cars on the road today. 

    The Crypton digital lab scope is a feature of the equipment used to tune and diagnose problems with classic cars ignition systems. It has a very handy feature of recording the ignition system working under load conditions and playing back to analyse the faults accurately. 

    We are able to tune and balance all classic car carburettors

    We convert all classic car distributors or offer a replacement electronic ignition distributor.

    We diagnose the cause of classic car engine stalling problems and repair and re tune the engine to fix the problem.

    Using the Crypton diagnostic equipment we are able to diagnose problems relating to classic car engines ticking over  too fast and fix the problem.

    We are able to diagnose the problems with classic car engines not starting and get the engine started again and tuned for peak efficiency.

    We diagnose & fix hot engine starting problems with the Crypton diagnostic equipment. We offer a national mobile coverage or you can come to us for a while you wait service, available 7 days a week.

    We diagnose and fix classic car cold starting problems using the Crypton diagnostic equipment. We offer a national mobile coverage or you can bring the car to us for a while you wait diagnostic & tuning service.

    We tune & balance all classic car carburettors including, SU carburettors, Weber carburettors, Solex carburettors, Zenith carburettors, Holly carburettors, Edelbrock carburettors, American carburettor tuning

    Our mobile Crypton Tuning & Classic car tuning service covers , Cambridge, London, Essex, Herts, Suffolk, Norfolk, Bedfordshire, Northampton, Norwich, Leicester, Birmingham, Corby, Kettering, Kent, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Bath, Cotswolds, North Wales, South Wales, Plymouth, Southampton, Exeter, Cardiff, Peterborough, Oxford, Swindon, Reading, Winchester, Brighton, Coventry, Nottingham, Coventry, Derby, Portsmouth, Kettering, Northampton, Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield, Liverpool, Leicester, Coventry, Worcester, Arundel, Southampton, Bristol, Exeter, Torquay, Dover, Canterbury, Sittingbourne, Swansea, Leeds, Hull, York, Preston, Bradford, The Lake District, Stoke on Trent, Great Yarmouth, Cromer, Clacton on sea, Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds, Grantham, Lincoln, Bedford, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, North Wales, South Wales, Corby, Swindon, Surrey, Andover, Trowbridge, Basingstoke, Woking, Sevenoaks, Crawley, Brighton, Worthing, Bognor Regis, Chichester, Weymouth, Sidmouth, Exeter, Bridgewater, Barnstable, Bude, Padstow, Newquay, Fowey, Plymouth, Brixham, Dartmouth, Looe, Bodmin, Ilfracombe, Lytton, Taunton, Chepstow, Gloucester, Tewkesbury, Stratford Upon Avon, Henley On Thames, Windsor, Rugby, High Wycombe, Didcot, Epsom, Guilford, Farnham, Aylesbury, Dunstable, Luton,