Vehicle alignments helps your tires last longer, can help improve gas mileage and provides tighter handling to give you and your passengers a better ride and safer ride. A alignment inspection and service can keep you worry free and your vehicle on the road longer. Is Your Vehicle Pulling left or right? Your vehicle is… Read more »
Posts Tagged: scheduled maintenance
Listen when your car cries for help
Life is busy and dollars are tighter than ever for many people. The car is just a machine that provides freedom to get where we need to go at a moment’s notice. Many of us remember when the car talked to you when it was not feeling well. What I mean is before technology, if… Read more »
The Key to Long Lasting Cars
New cars cost so much these days. Add financing and insurance, and, well, a new vehicle may not seem so attractive. A lot of Kent area drivers are hoping to make their cars last a lot longer. The good news is that with the current state of automotive engineering and manufacture, there’s no reason a modern vehicle… Read more »
When Should You Replace Your Air Filter?
Just as our bodies need clean air to function properly, your SUV engine needs a clean air filter to operate efficiently. Let’s go egghead for a minute. For every gallon of gas we burn driving on WA interstates, twenty pounds of carbon dioxide comes out the tailpipe. Question: how can a gallon of gas that weighs… Read more »
Getting a Spring and Fall Tuneup
When I was a kid in Kent, my dad always made sure he took the cars in for a Spring and Fall tuneup. I was telling a friend that it’s about time to go in for my checkup and he said that he read on the internet that modern cars don’t need seasonal service. My friend is… Read more »
Keep It Flowing: Fuel Filter Replacement
The function of the fuel filter is pretty self-explanatory: it filters your fuel. The fuel filter is in the fuel line somewhere between the fuel tank and the engine. Both gas and diesel vehicles use fuel filters. Generally speaking, there’s not a lot of dirt in our Kent WA auto fuel supply, but there is… Read more »
Differential Service
Here at AutoNetTV, we have viewers, like you, from all across the country who write to us with questions or feedback. One common question we’re asked is: What is a differential and what does it do? You may have been told your differential needs service, or seen it as an option up on the service… Read more »
Is It Time for an Oil Change?
Today in the Central Avenue Automotive auto care blog, we’re going to talk about oil change intervals. It seems that as engine technology advances, recommended oil change intervals have gotten longer for our customers. High quality oil in a well-engineered SUV engine has lead to extended intervals, but it’s also lead to some confusion among… Read more »
The Auto Maintenance Mindset
When it comes to their vehicles, some auto owners don’t have an auto maintenance mindset. They know they need to take care of their cars, but it’s always very difficult to get them to remember to do it. Auburn drivers generally accept that many things in life require regular maintenance, but just may have not applied… Read more »
Car Maintenance Tips to Save Gas
If there’s one constant that Kent drivers are always painfully aware of, it’s the rising price of gas. For some, the obvious answer for saving some gas money is to buy a more fuel-efficient vehicle. For the rest of us, we can’t just go out and buy a new hybrid, so we need to improve… Read more »
