Dunkeld West is a small pocket of older houses and newer clusters off Jan Smuts, which means neighbouring properties frequently have twenty years between their gate installations.
Two eras on one street
Advice that is right next door is regularly wrong here. An older unit is a parts-availability question; a recent one is a maintenance question, and they need opposite things.
On the older side, whether to keep repairing depends on whether boards and gears are still stocked and whether the gearbox runs quietly. On the newer side, nothing has worn yet — the faults are limits that drifted as the gate settled and beams knocked on a tight driveway. Where the fault turns out to be the motor itself, that is ordinary gate motor repair work rather than anything exotic.
Narrow frontages
Driveways here are modest, which puts beams close to passing vehicles and frequently leaves little run-out for a sliding gate.
Where there is no run-out, a swing gate with the right arm for the pillar geometry is the answer, and choosing a straight ram where an articulated arm belonged is the installation fault we most often return to correct.
What is worth doing
Establish which era your hardware is from before spending anything. That single question decides whether the sensible next step is a service, a repair or a replacement.
Then the ordinary list: track cleared before the rains, wheels checked, beams positioned where mirrors will not clip them, and limits calibrated with the gate loaded.
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