Category: Auto Problems
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Your Car’s Oxygen Sensor: What it is and Why it’s Important
Understanding Your Car’s Oxygen Sensor: What It Is and How to Tell if It’s Failing A vehicle’s oxygen sensor plays a crucial role in maintaining the best engine performance and minimizing emissions. And understand exactly what it is can go along way to helping you keep your car running efficiently and reduce the risk of…
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Why Your Car or Truck’s Tune-up is Important for Saving $$$
How to Tell Your Vehicle Needs a Tune-Up and Why It’s Important Fun roadside attractions can be found throughout our U.S. towns. And Pennsylvania is know exception. In fact, our very own Harrisburg has a Mini Statue of Liberty right along a stretch of the Susquehanna River. And, it’s a must see family outing. But,…
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Pennsylvania’s Emissions Test: The Best Guide to Passing
Understanding Pennsylvania’s Emissions Test Standards: A Guide to Passing Pennsylvania’s emissions test standards are designed to ensure that vehicles meet environmental regulations aimed at reducing air pollution. And as a vehicle owner in Pennsylvania, Meineke in Mechanicsburg share what you need to know about these standards and how to pass your vehicle emissions test. What…
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The “Must Knows” About Your Car’s Shock Absorbers & Struts
Maintaining and Protecting Your Vehicle’s Shock Absorbers and Struts ‘Honoring Our Heroes’ is an event to highlight our Hanover emergency, medical and military workers. And, just as every town needs these unsung heroes to ensure our community runs smoothly; so too does our cars and truck need the unsung heroes of our suspension system to…
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OEM Parts: What That Means and Why Knowing Matters
Understanding OEM Parts: What Your Mechanic Means and Why It Matters New Freedom residents who’d like to lean a new language can do so for FREE with their York County Libraries card. Because they can access the language-learning system via the York County Library Resources page. And though understanding a new language may help in…
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The Best Way to Keep Your Car’s Timing Belt in Top Condition
The Importance of Timing Belt Inspections During Regular Car Maintenance Maintaining your vehicle is all about ensuring that all the critical parts in your car, truck, or Jeep are functioning correctly. And just like our York county railroads are a critical part our Pennsylvania history, equally critical to the health of your engine is your…
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The Best Way to Keep Your Car’s Fuel Lines Healthy
The Causes and Prevention of Brittle and Cracked Car Fuel Lines Fuel lines are a critical part of a vehicle’s fuel system. Because, they are responsible for transporting fuel from the tank to the engine. But, over time, these lines can become brittle and prone to cracking. And this can lead to fuel leaks, engine…
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What You Need to Know About How to Prevent a Cracked Engine
What It Means When a Car Engine is Cracked and What to Do About It Imagine this: you were heading toward York Habitat ReStore to donate some old items that you no longer need in honor of World Upcycling Day. But, on the way your car started smoking and then began to overheat. And what…
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The Dos & Don’ts of Adding Aftermarket Parts to Your Vehicle
What You Need to Know About Adding Aftermarket Parts to Your Pick-Up Truck or Jeep Sometimes, we like to hit the highway and enjoy the feel of the open road in our ride or die: our Jeep or Pick-up Truck. And this is especially true after last weeks major power outage that left us wanting…
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What You Need to Know About Heatwaves and Your Car
How Hot Weather Affects Your Car or Truck and How to Protect Your Vehicle High heat and humidity continue into the weekend in Lancaster county with feels like numbers near 100 degrees. And as temperatures soar, it’s not just humans who feel the heat; our vehicles also bear the brunt of the summer sun. So,…