Not quite as technical Spanish - Servicios mecánicos y técnicos.

Question

Hi all,

OK, I want to be able to differentiate various types of mechanical services with a bit more subtlety than I can now. For me, at the moment, I don´t have an ability to express gradations, and so need some more verbs.

Repairs (when something is actually broken) Reparar?

Adjusting (basic approximations and coarse adustment) Ajustar?

Tuning (fine tuning existing functions or improvements, to be at their best) Finar?

... and here´s the hard one ... I couldn´t really find a single fitting verb.

Maintaining (just doing preventative maintenance and adjustments to specifications, and fluid changes etc Dar movimientos???

Thanks in advance for any help. Roger

Answer 1

Repair - reparar or arreglar

Adjust - ajustar or modificar

Tune - afinar

Maintain - encargarse del mantenimiento, dar mantenimiento

perfect, MC - 005faa61, Feb 14, 2013

Gracias JC :) - Kiwi-Girl, Feb 14, 2013

I agree! - --Mariana--, Feb 14, 2013

ThanksMUCH Kiwi. You confirmed for me that my not having found single-word verb for maintain is legit. Good to know modificar too, as it turns out to be a bit of a false cognate. I´d have used it for modify. Thanks again! - rogspax, Feb 14, 2013

Kiwi / Rog, what about "mantener"? - padrin, Feb 14, 2013

That one is a bit of a false friend and can mean to keep, to feed, to confirm - all sorts of things but as far as i know not so much maintenance of equipment. - Kiwi-Girl, Feb 14, 2013

I spotted that but one of the many meanings was "to keep something in good order"? - padrin, Feb 15, 2013