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Fuel nozzle filling up the tank.

Discharge That Static Electricity Before Filling Up Your Gas Tank!

Everybody knows to turn off their engine before filling up your car with gas right? You should definitely not be smoking a cigarette either when you are filling up the car with gas. Well those are pretty much common knowledge don’t you think?  Well what a lot of people do not think about is the probability of

Neglected engine

Proof Of The Importance Of Changing Your Engine’s Oil And Filter.

I was looking through some old photos that I had and I stumbled across these. They are old photos so I apologize ahead of time for the quality of the photos. These photos were taken when I was performing a service that required valve adjustments. The vehicles were

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Will The Air Conditioner In Your Car Work This Summer?

Usually what happens is it is the hottest day of the year,and Dad has the car fully packed for vacation and the air conditioning  does not work!  On top of that the shop you bring it to it having problems with their A/C charging station. Let me start off by first mentioning one of the […]

Is your cabin air filter in your car dirty? Do you know if your vehicle has one?

I have made mention of what a cabin air filter is,and what it does in my book “If That Car Could Talk”. On page 129 I show an example of an unbelievably  dirty cabin air filter. The point I am trying to get across is most people do not realize that they are breathing the air that passes […]

New Years Resolution:Take Better Care Of Your Car In 2013,Budget For Maintenance!

How much do you set aside to maintain your vehicle during the course of a year?  Do you follow a maintenance schedule that is in your vehicles owners manual? Maybe this year you can start to set aside $4.00 a day for a maintenance for your car. That’s right for only four bucks a day, […]

Evaluating your car: Should it stay? Or should it go?

I have been putting it off for awhile now, and after this weekend I found it necessary to add this category “Evaluating Cars”. Why may you ask after this weekend Joe? I was at a book store this weekend talking to some nice people, selling and signing a few books and I met this nice […]

Is Your Check Engine Light On? What Is Wrong With This Picture?

Well you are driving along minding your own business and all of a sudden that little yellow light comes on. Yes that’s right your check engine light! There are many reasons why your check engine light can come on, but with today’s vehicles it is usually an issue with the evaporative emissions system. The first […]

Will your snow tires be good in the snow this year?

It is becoming that time of year to start thinking about getting your snow tires mounted on your car. This happens much more than it should, I take the snow tires out of the tire bags they were stored in and “Surprise!” I just had a customer bring their car in to have their snow […]