All Hours Automotive Repair

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Can Your Car Last Another Year? Have you checked out the price of new vehicles at Columbus car dealers? Ouch! Add financing and insurance and - well a new ride may not seem so attractive. A lot of Columbus, OH folks are hoping to make their cars last a lot longer. Fortunately, with the current state of automotive engineering and manufacturing, there’s no reason a modern vehicle can’t be made to last for a 150,000 miles or more for smart Columbus drivers. The old adage: 'a stitch in time saves nine' is

Shake It Up in Columbus!: Why Wheel Balancing Our vehicles are not massage chairs. While we may enjoy a good vibration in an overstuffed recliner, us Columbus car owners generally want as smooth a ride as possible in our vehicles. One way to achieve this is to keep a vehicle’s wheels in balance. When a tire is mounted onto a wheel, it is usually out of balance. This means that as the wheel spins, there is a slight wobble to the path of the tire. For best handling performance and safety on the road, Columbus motorists wa

Budget For Maintenance in Columbus Sometimes busy Columbus residents dream about going back to the “simpler” days of our grandparents. But if you could travel back in time and take a road trip around Amlin in a Model T, you might change your mind. The improved designs and quality of today’s automobiles have significantly reduced the amount of time Columbus auto owners spend at the side of the road during breakdowns. With proper maintenance, today’s vehicles can stay on the road longer than

All Hours Automotive Repair Service For Your Exhaust System Your family car’s exhaust system is more than just a tailpipe and a muffler. In fact, it is one of the most complex systems on your family car. Maintaining it is good All Hours Automotive Repair auto advice for Columbus drivers, but it’s also good health advice and good environmental advice. The exhaust system includes your emissions system. Because this system may affect your health and the health of our Amlin area environment, it is subject to strict government regu

Time Out: Suspension Problems in Columbus Your vehicle’s suspension system has two essential jobs: to prevent the passengers from getting tossed around inside the vehicle every time it hits a bump in the road and to keep the tires firmly planted on the road around every corner and over every bump. To see your suspension system, you’ll have to look under your vehicle. Anything that connects the wheels to the vehicle’s frame is part of the suspension system. They’re heavy-duty parts that work hard whi

Arrive Alive In Columbus We've all seen OH drivers do crazy things while driving to or from Amlin. A guy shaving in the rear-view mirror, a woman applying makeup, people talking on their phones, texting or drinking from an enormous coffee mug. It's a wonder we even dare drive on OH roads. The truth is that all of us Columbus car owners are distracted when we drive. Unfortunately, traffic, road construction and other dangerous external factors are beyond our control. The distractions inside our car, however,

Fuel System Cleaning at All Hours Automotive Repair in Columbus for Better Performance A fuel injector is a valve that delivers fuel to a vehicle’s engine. It has to deliver the precise amount of fuel, to precisely the right place, precisely when the engine needs it. The fuel also has to be mixed with air before it can burn in the engine. Fuel injectors are engineered to spray fuel in a specific pattern into the engine. (The pattern varies by engine type and design.) In order to achieve these spray patterns, the fuel must be pressurized. The pressure in a fuel injection syst

All Hours Automotive Repair Car Care Advice for Columbus Motorists: Making a Battery Last Longer One thing all Columbus auto owners can do to extend the life of their battery is to keep it clean. A greasy, dirty battery holds in damaging heat. Same goes for removing corrosion from the terminals. All Hours Automotive Repair can help maintain your battery. Allowing your battery to be deeply depleted – like from using your headlights when the engine is off – is very detrimental to your battery. Most automotive batteries can only take that about 10 times before they are ruined. Also

Can Car Scent Keep You Safe On OH Roads? Here's a travel tip that'll I'll bet you didn't know, and, it might keep you safer... The average American commuter in OH spends two and a half hours daily in their car. The government says a hundred thousand auto accidents yearly are caused by drivers who fall asleep at the wheel. (Aggressive driving is the number one traffic safety concern.) So what does this have to do with how your car smells while you're driving around OH? Well, which scent did you think makes drivers more ale

Drive Train - What You Need to Know In Columbus One Columbus automotive service issue that doesn't get much attention is driveline service. Drivelines don't get talked about very much around Amlin, but they're very important. First let's define what the driveline is: Taking a small step back, the power plant is comprised of the engine and transmission. The driveline starts there and includes all of the components that transfer power from the transmission to the wheels. That's not really a lot of components, but they handle