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Your Car’s Fluids and You

Your Car’s Fluids and You

It’s easy to look at your vehicle and see it as a complex series of moving parts perfectly in sync and in alignment with each other. To a certain extent, that’s true; but it’s also worth looking at your car in another way: as a series of tubes, lines, and chambers filled with fluids. From the hydraulic fluid in your […]

What You Need to Know About Brake Service

What You Need to Know About Brake Service

Although it’s easy to get focused on exciting parts of your vehicle, like a powerful engine, innovative shocks, and special transmission, the absolute most important part of your car is the brakes. No amount of power to your wheels or microsecond-shifting of gears matters if your brakes don’t work properly to stop your car when you need to. And yet, […]

Quick Guide to Using a Ford Tire Mobility Kit

Quick Guide to Using a Ford Tire Mobility Kit

Taking proper care of your vehicle means many things: driving safely, following the manufacturer’s schedule for service and maintenance, and knowing how to address any issues that might arise. Today, many Ford models come with a Ford Tire Mobility Kit instead of the familiar compact spare tire. While a serious blowout or sidewall damage requires that you contact Ford service […]

Steering, Suspension, or Both? What’s the Issue?

Steering, Suspension, or Both? What’s the Issue?

Vehicles can often be reliable and strong machines; however, they can also be delicate. Nobody likes bringing their vehicle in for repairs, but once you notice that the suspension and steering of your vehicle are not performing as they should, it simply becomes an inevitability. As with all motor-powered machines, time and usage mean vehicles aren’t invincible. Vehicle repairs will […]

Keep Cool and Drive On

Keep Cool and Drive On

Cars, trucks, and SUVs look like peaceful, reliable pieces of machinery that exist to help you get to where you need to go with little fuss. In reality, however, they are powered by explosions that could easily melt them down into a pile of scrap metal if left uncontrolled. Thankfully, your vehicle has a cooling system that helps offset the […]

Servicing Vehicles in Warm Weather is Important Too

Servicing Vehicles in Warm Weather is Important Too

Wintertime is usually considered the most hazardous time of the year to operate an automobile. Slippery driving conditions, chemically-treated roadways, and unpredictable storms bring the winter months to the top of the charts as the most dangerous time of the year to be on the road. Because of that, leading up to the colder months, many people find themselves searching […]

What Is a Transmission Service and When Do I Need One?

What Is a Transmission Service and When Do I Need One?

A lot of folks are intimidated by the field of automotive mechanics, which is understandable. There are lots of moving parts involved, literally. But quickly let’s use a hypothetical scenario: a mechanic approaches you after servicing your car and says, “ok so your intermediate roller hook was really dilated so we’re gonna need to do a complete intubation of the […]

Seasonal Car Maintenance

Seasonal Car Maintenance

As the seasons change, our driving styles need to adapt. We know this is especially the case with the winter season. Sleet, snow, and ice can cause potentially dangerous situations while driving. So, although we can’t control the weather while we drive, there is something that we can control, our vehicle’s readiness through seasonal car maintenance. Seasonal car maintenance can […]

Diagnose Yourself: Belts and Hoses

Diagnose Yourself: Belts and Hoses

We’ve all been there, that moment that can cause extreme frustration, a loud and overbearing screeching noise from the engine. It might have started from a simple, occasional squeak, which resulted in the loud noise that it evolved into. After taking it to a mechanic and $50 dollars later, you find out that the loud noise was just a worn-out […]

Understanding the Alternator and When to Replace It

Understanding the Alternator and When to Replace It

Vehicles are incredible and truly amazing machines that are capable of doing so many different things. However, they require quite a large amount of various resources to function correctly. Not only do they require gasoline or diesel to power the engine, but they also need a constant supply of electricity in order to power the various electronics throughout. Electricity in […]