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Information about auto repair and preventive maintenance

Category: Preventative Maintenance

Does your check engine light scare you?

Tweet The very last light on the dashboard that anyone likes to see is that little check engine light. It causes hearts to skip a beat when it illuminates. Not to worry however, when that light comes on it doesn’t mean you have to pull over and shut the engine off right away. In fact […]

Summer is arriving full speed ahead

Tweet The weather is turning right into summer with warm temperatures getting even warmer. The air conditioners are being turned on full blast to help people cool off. Hopefully most of the cars out there have been serviced recently to ensure the air conditioner will work well all summer. For those that haven’t been serviced […]

Spring into spring and clean that car

Tweet While the rest of the country is pulling out of winter and looking forward to a warm spring, we in Arizona are preparing for a long hot summer. Our summers are often harder on our cars than most place’s winters. This spring, however, why not take a few preventative steps that will help your […]

Cornering and Flying Over Bumps Isn’t Good Driving

Tweet Our vehicles are made to sustain a certain amount of abuse, however excessive hard driving can really bring on the wear in a hurry. Going too fast around corners, a few screeched tires, and a little cramming on the brakes is the normal way a teenager drives, but it shouldn’t be the normal driving […]

Vehicle Suspension Got You In The Gutter?

Tweet The suspension system is the most important auto system installed in the vehicle. It is the part that makes riding in the car more than bearable, it can be most comfortable. Not only does it keep the vehicle in one piece, it has the job of dampening the up and down movement created by […]

Is Your Car Going Shake, Rattle, and Roll?

Tweet The old Model A car certainly didn’t have a smooth ride. In fact when it went down a dirt road there was no way to carry on an understandable conversation with anyone in it. All the jiggles and jounces could be completely unsettling. Vehicles have come so far over the years, from not being […]

Any Gas Will Do – Or Will It?

Tweet So, where is your favorite place to stop for gas when your car starts getting low? Most of us have a certain place, or at least a certain brand, that we consistently use to fuel up. How did we choose that place? Was it gas quality? Gas price? The coffee they serve? Cleanliness of […]

Don’t Be A Statistic This Holiday Season

Tweet Last week one prominent auto club published a piece indicating that they anticipate that they will come to the rescue of more than 1.4 million stranded motorists during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. That’s a lot of tow trucks, drivers, batteries, spare tires, and jump starts. Instead, we’d like to give you a […]

What Happens When You Don’t Change Your Oil?

Tweet The other day while surfing the web, I came across a photo titled exactly this, “What Happens When You Don’t Change Your Oil?” and it was a mess! The image happened to be of a BMW engine (valuable) filled with thick, brown, slimy sludge (considerably less valuable now). Of course blog readers spent a […]

No More Procrastination!

Tweet We are all guilty of it; putting off our oil change even though the little light on the dashboard is on. It stares us in the face every time we start our vehicle, and we think we can make it another month before we really need to get it changed. The truth is, regularly […]