Category: Auto Maintenance
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Brake Pads: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Brakes
Understanding Your Car’s Brake Pads: Why They’re Essential and When to Replace Them Imagine this: You’re on your way to the Festival of Trees at the Civic Garden Center in Harrisburg when suddenly you hear a squeaking sound when you press your brakes. So, you wonder if your brakes may be compromised. And you consider…
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Transmission Fluid: Does Yours Need Changing? How to Tell
The Importance of Transmission Fluid: When and How to Change It Your car or truck’s transmission fluid is crucial for keeping your vehicle running smoothly. And here in Camp Hill, during this busy season, that’s important! So, having fresh transmission fluid is key. Because, transmission fluid lubricates moving parts, reduces friction, and helps regulate the…
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Texting and Driving: What You Need to Know to be Safe
The Hazards of Texting and Driving: A Life-Threatening Distraction Here in Hershey, texting and driving is one of the most dangerous habits behind the wheel, that drivers can do. And it claims thousands of lives each year, leading our Pennsylvania Governor to ban the use of cellphones while driving. But despite this and widespread awareness…
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Emissions Inspection in Pennsylvania: How to Pass
Steps to Pass the Pennsylvania Emissions Test If you live in Pennsylvania, passing the emissions inspection is a key step in ensuring your vehicle is environmentally compliant and legally registered. But, knowing if your vehicle will pass and the step you may need to ensure it does can be stressful. So, in this blog, the…
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Trickle Charger: Everything You Need to Know
What Is a Vehicle Trickle Charger, and Should You Have One? It gets cold here in Hanover. And our weather is a good reason to consider a trickle charger. But, what is a trickle charger? And what else is a good reason to have one? A vehicle trickle charger is a device designed to keep…
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The Hazards of Overloading Your Car (or sleigh) this Winter
The Hazards of Overloading Your Car in the Winter We have more than 12 days of Christmas (shopping) here in Hanover. And though this may not lead us to load up our cars like Santa’s sleigh, it could cause us to overload our vehicle’s with gifts, guests, family and friends… all at the same time.…
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The Mighty Fuel Filter: Your Car’s or Truck’s Lungs
The Role of Your Vehicle’s Fuel Filter and How to Maintain It Just like your body reacts to air quality and pollen, so too does your car or truck. Luckily, we in New Freedom have enjoyed fairly good air quality index recently. And this is good news for our bodies and our vehicles. Because our…
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Yuck! Dirty Fuel Injectors: What You Need to Know
Dirty Fuel Injectors: Why They Matter and How to Keep Them Clean Dirty fuel injectors can wreak havoc on your vehicle’s performance here in York. Because these small but critical parts are responsible for delivering fuel into the engine at the right time and in the right amount. But, when they get clogged or dirty,…
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The Best Maintenance Checklist that Saves You Down the Road
Quick Vehicle Maintenance Checklist: Keep Your Car Running Smoothly We in York have officially begun the holiday shopping season. And we have our gift lists ready to check off as we hit the markets. But there’s another checklist we in York need to keep up with. And that’s the one that will ensure our cars…
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Tire Inflation: Why a Properly Inflated is so Important
The Importance of Keeping Your Car or Truck Tires Properly Inflated No one here in York want to be involved in any auto accident; big or small. And one way to make sure that your car or truck is as safe as possible on the road is making sure your tires are inflated properly. Proper…