preparing your car for winter driving

Posted on: 19 January 2016

The brakes in your car will likely need to be serviced at some point. Although some car components have a regular schedule for maintenance, a brake system may need serviced more or less often depending on your driving habits. For instance, if you drive regularly in a busy city with multiple stops, you are likely to need your brakes serviced more often than someone who drives mostly on highways. Still, regardless of where you generally drive, when you have your brakes serviced, there are several brake system components that may need to be replaced.
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Posted on: 19 January 2016

While it may seem like no big deal when your service engine light goes on in your car, this can be a sign that your car is beginning to have transmission problems. Your transmission works hard throughout the lifetime of your car, and a check engine light is important to have looked at by a mechanic, like Aamco Transmissions & Auto Repair. When you wait to have your car repaired and it is experiencing transmission problems, you are risking a total transmission failure that is expensive to repair.
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Posted on: 18 January 2016

As brake pads wear down, the metal rivets that hold the pads to the bracket become exposed. Exposed rivets will dig into the surface of the brake rotor and create grooves in it which negatively affects the ability of the car to slow down and stop. You can tell when the rotor is going bad because your brake pedal will start to feel like it's fluttering when you press down on it to slow your car down – especially when you are traveling at high speeds.
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Posted on: 18 January 2016

If your car recently made it through a hail storm, and you have some dents that need to be fixed, you have a few different options for addressing the hail damage. Here are three different ways you can approach fixing the hail damage that your vehicle sustained. The Home Heat Method If you want to try to fix the dents yourself, you can use the home heat method. The first step of this method is to park your vehicle out in the sun as much as possible.
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