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Information about auto repair and preventive maintenance

Category: Preventative Maintenance

Save Yourself from the Heat of Cooling System Failure

Tweet According to AAA, cooling system failures are one of the leading causes of vehicle break-downs on the highway. Yet most of these breakdowns can be prevented by the following preventative maintenance by a trusted auto repair shop. Cooling system neglect is cited as a principal reason for mechanical failure of a vehicle. In addition […]

Change Your Oil, Save Your Pocketbook

Tweet An oil and filter change involves draining out the old motor oil and replacing it with fresh, new motor oil. The oil filter also gets replaced at the same time. This is a simple thing for your auto repair shop to do, and it a reasonably priced service. Without it, the results could be […]

Maintaining Your Transmission

Tweet Among the several aspects of car maintenance, transmission fluid change and transmission fluid flush are perhaps the most crucial ones. While transmission fluid change has to be executed at regular intervals, one has to ideally opt for transmission fluid flush once in a while in order to ensure that the various transmission problems are […]

How stable is your vehicle?

Tweet The weather will soon be changing and so will the road conditions in some areas of our state, and right here in Tempe and Mesa once the rains start. During winter months drivers have to be aware of road conditions that would cause a variety of problems with any vehicle. Did you know that […]

Get a routine service check before winter weather arrives

Tweet Here in Arizona, we are fortunate to not have to some of the treacherous driving conditions that other parts of the nation face. We don’t have the icy roads, blizzard conditions, or hail storms damaging vehicles. But after a long hot Southwest summer, there are still some routine service checks an auto repair shop […]

Does your car leave coolant in its parking spot?

Tweet Every vehicle has a cooling system both for the comfort of the passengers but also for the benefit of the engine itself. Engines produce heat while they are running; the cooling system keeps the engine from completely melting down. The water pump is the most important part of the cooling system, without the pump […]

Keep Your Older Vehicle Strong During a Weak Economy

Tweet A recent article from the Today Show Online gives us the idea that consumers are not out there buying new vehicles like they were at one point. In the middle of a national debt crisis and the word “recession” flying out of journalists’ mouths lately, American consumers have been holding on just a little […]

Oil filters, is there a difference between the brands?

Tweet Every automobile owner knows that getting the oil changed at regular intervals is very important. We all know the drill, every 3000-5000 miles and we need to change the oil. Whether we head for the auto repair center or change it ourselves, it simply needs done. Many people change their own oil at home […]

Include Your Car in “Spring Cleaning”

Tweet Most people “spring clean” their house seasonally, or when the weather is really nice. Here is a new thought – add your car into the mix. Spring cleaning will not only help your car to look nice on the outside, but it could have significant benefits to the health of the driver and the […]

Give Us a Brake!

Tweet Every consumer who drives, not those with Toyotas, heard about the big recalls within the last couple of years. Design flaws and malfunctioning parts created quite the dangers in vehicles on the road without many drivers even knowing, until it was too late. When you Google “possible brake problems,” the themes that come up […]