Federated Videos Highlight Routine Maintenance
The informative videos focus on the importance of routine vehicle maintenance, service and repair.
Maintenance Matters: What Winter Can Do To Battery Life
Being proactive about taking care of your customers with dying or dead batteries is essential this time of year.
Maintenance Matters: Visibility Is The Top Safety Concern
It doesn’t matter how much emphasis you put on the condition of a vehicle’s components – if the driver can’t see what’s in front of him or her, safety will absolutely be compromised.
Maintenance Matters: A Tire In Winter
In much of the country, all-season tires are the go-to choice for drivers. They offer reliable, consistent performance in a variety of road conditions. However, increasingly, “all-weather” tires are becoming the popular choice.
Winter Vehicle Maintenance
Winter brings with it the excitement of the holidays, the opportunity to engage in invigorating outdoor activities and the chance to wear ugly sweaters that would be shunned any other time of the year. For much of the country, winter also brings potentially hazardous road conditions, meaning your shop should be planning now to help your customers safely weather the season.
Hybrid Maintenance: Fluid Service Considerations
Does the phrase “hybrid fluid maintenance” scare you? It shouldn’t. With more than 4 million hybrids on the road, and many of your customers considering purchasing one, servicing hybrid vehicles is in your future.
Why Maintenance Matters
Although Car Care Month is typically celebrated twice a year in April and October, that doesn’t mean you should miss great opportunities to host impromptu car care clinics during the summer. Your customers may leave it all behind but vehicle maintenance needs never take a vacation. While drivers may be putting enormous numbers of miles
VIDEO: Oil Filter Maintenance Tips
Doug Kaufman discusses the different types of oil filters, and tips for their replacement when the time comes. Sponsored by MAHLE.
Hyundai/Kia Theta Engine Maintenance Essentials
The Hyundai Theta engine appeared in 2006 Sonata models and is going strong to this day in naturally aspirated and turbocharged forms in various Hyundai and Kia applications. The one area of the engine that has been the source of more TSBs and tech tips has been the bottom end of the engine and lubrication system.
What Is The Value Of Routine Vehicle Maintenance?
The first step in keeping your customers’ vehicles in top-running condition is getting them in the mindset about the value of preventive maintenance, so that they take a proactive role in having you regularly maintain their vehicles, says Mary DellaValle, editor of ImportCar magazine.
