Brakes that work properly are essential to your safety as you drive and stop on our TANNERSVILLE streets. You want to carefully maintain your brakes. In vehicles equipped with drum brakes, the brake components are housed inside a drum that rotates with the wheel. When you step on the brake pedal, brake shoes push out …
Let’s talk about your suspension – you know, the system that connects your wheels to your vehicle, controls your handling, and delivers a good ride as you cruise around TANNERSVILLE PA. Your suspension is critical for proper steering, stopping, and stability. Hey, it’s a rough world out there in PA – every time you hit a …
You may be surprised to learn that 40 percent of traffic fatalities in PA take place at night even though there’s 60 percent less traffic. It goes to show how important proper visibility is to nighttime driving in our TANNERSVILLE community. Obviously, a clean windshield is important – so are good wiper blades. Your headlights play …
Let’s talk about air conditioning service and repair issues for the TANNERSVILLE PA area. Most of us in TANNERSVILLE don’t give our air conditioning a second thought as long as it’s making cold air. But it’s a complex and expensive system that we should think about before it starts blowing hot air. The refrigerant in the …
Batteries are a huge part of modern life in TANNERSVILLE PA. I mean, how many battery chargers do you have? Of course, our purpose here is to talk about your car battery. When people come into our TANNERSVILLE PA service center and need a new battery, they’re really not that happy about having to spend the money. …
For most of us, it is hard to remember life without power steering – cranking those great big steering wheels? It was a pretty good workout. Now power steering is standard. The heart of any power steering system is its pump. The pump pressurizes the power steering fluid that provides assist for steering. Most pumps …
Today at Best Auto Service & Tire Center we’re going to talk about windshield wiper blades. Now that may seem like a pretty mundane topic, but think about how important your vision is: We protect our eyes. If we need contacts or glasses, we taken care of them too. And, well, wiper blades are critical to …
You’ve probably noticed a bunch of warning lights on your dash when you start your engine. They flash on to test the circuits and then go off if everything’s OK. One of the warning lights looks like a car battery. Its job is to tell you if your battery’s not charging properly. You know that your battery …
When your check engine light comes on, you may be torn between utter panic and just wanting to ignore it and hope it goes away. That’s perfectly understandable. That same check engine light could come on for anything from a serious engine or transmission problem all the way down to a loose gas cap. There’s a very common misconception that …
Let’s talk shocks and struts. Shock absorbers and struts last a long time and wear out pretty slowly for most vehicles in the Tannersville area. They’re easy to take for granted, but your shocks and struts do a very important job so you need to pay attention to them. They keep your tires on the …