You know that winter and bad weather are coming. Is your car ready? Here’s a quick checklist of things to get up to speed on: Motor oil: Motor oil has a tendency to thicken in cold weather, making it harder to circulate to upper engine parts at startup. If you haven’t ever used synthetic oil …
Things To Look For When Buying a Used Car
Buying a used car is somewhat less of a crapshoot than it was at one time. You can get detailed information on a vehicle’s history via the CARFAX report, and a Car for saletechnician can use onboard diagnostics to get a good picture of what’s going on under the hood and what problems might be …
Tips On How To Keep Your Car Organized!
For some, the idea of an “organized car” is almost blasphemous, but having your vehicle set up so you can actually find things can be pretty nice. The bigger the vehicle — minivans, SUVs — and the more people they haul, the more disorganized they can get. Don’t let your minivan turn into a rolling …
What’s Leaking From My Car?
You go out to your car, start it up, pull out of your parking space and see a puddle of…something…where you were parked a moment ago. This is never a good feeling. What could it be? Fortunately, some automotive fluids are dyed different colors to make this a little easier to narrow down. Does it …
A/C Problems Demystified
Believe it or not, the A/C system in your vehicle is fairly simple in principle and design. Like your refrigerator, it operates on a cycle of compression and expansion of a gas, known as refrigerant. The compressor turns the gas into a liquid, and as the gas evaporates it provides cooling. Like your refrigerator, its …