It seems innocent enough, your car’s working great, you live an incredibly busy life, you drive a lot and the car’s new, so why bother following your vehicle’s maintenance schedule. We encounter this scenario at our shop from time to time and it shows up in a vehicle that has not been maintained to factory  Read more »

Tire pressure monitoring systems offer convenience, are a smart safety addition and they are proven to increase the life of your tires!

I recently serviced a vehicle for a man who has been my longest client with our relationship going back 30 years. I got to thinking about the car I serviced today, a 2011 VW Golf and the car he owned that I first serviced: a 1980 Plymouth Horizon. The Horizon, while it got from A  Read more »

Fearmongering is a sales technique used by some shops, and sadly, as it is so often associated with dishonest recommendations gives the auto service industry a bad reputation. We recently had a client who brought her vehicle to us for a second opinion about some brake work that she was told was absolutely, immediately required  Read more »

The cost of replacing a fuel pump on Domestic vehicles (GM, Ford & Chrysler) has risen dramatically over the years. While this seems like a bad thing there is good news also! There was a time, in the early years of domestic fuel injected vehicles, that most fuel pumps would be dead within a 100,000  Read more »

Complete CV Joint Failures Due to Breakage Are Extremely Rare However that is what we found recently when a 2004 Ford Freestar was towed to our shop. Upon removing the axle shaft, taking off the CV boot and investigating the failure – we found the cage, which holds the 6 balls in position had split  Read more »

Finally a Newly Designed Central Port Fuel Injection Unit is Available This replacement part is for GM trucks that use this fuel injection system. And there are many trucks: millions of them, built from 1992 to 2002. This system was fraught with problems almost from day one and it’s surprising that it took so long  Read more »