Automotive Tips from Advantage Auto Repair & Transmisson: Knowing When Your Timing Belt Should Be Replaced The timing belt in your engine controls the opening and closing of the intake and exhaust valves. Tucson drivers need to replace it on a schedule to avoid failure. Give us a call.

Ready, Set, COLD! (Getting Vehicle Ready for Winter) When the temperatures plunge, your vehicle better be ready because it faces a whole new set of challenges. Rubber stiffens, glass fogs, fluids freeze. Just thinking about it can get your heart beating faster. So here are some tips for getting ready for those inevitable colder temperatures. […]

It’s Brake Time (Brake Calipers) Race car drivers have demonstrated the advantages of disc brakes, so most modern vehicles use them. Sometimes just the front wheels have disc brakes, but many vehicles now have them all the way around. A major component of the disc brake is called a caliper. It works by squeezing brake […]

Don’t Start with That (Bad Starter Motor) We’ve all heard that expression, “That’s a non starter.” When it comes to your vehicle, that’s not music to a driver’s ears. That sickening sound when you start the ignition and instead of hearing the engine crank, you hear it slowly turn over and your dash lights go […]

Below 45 Degrees in Tucson: Consider Winter Tires Remember snow tires? They were basically just regular tires with big, knobby lugs to get them through deep snow. They were loud and rode hard, and Tucson drivers couldn’t wait to get them off the car. Then along came television advertisements for “all-season” radials. AZ drivers ran […]

Advantage Auto Repair & Transmisson Automotive Tips: Diagnostic Service Imagine waking up one morning with a stomach ache. You pick up the phone, call the doctor’s office and say, “I’ve got a really bad tummy ache. How much will it cost to make me feel better?” Of course you wouldn’t do that. You know that […]

The Turn Signal Mystery (Turn Signal Problems) Some problems are easy to diagnose on a vehicle; others aren’t. Figuring out what’s wrong with a malfunctioning turn signal sometimes fits into both categories. By the way, if your tempted to just leave your broken blinker broken, remember you can get a ticket for not using them, […]

How Does Advantage Auto Repair & Transmisson Know What to Recommend? They will, however, perform inspections while they’re servicing your vehicle. They’ll check belts, filters and fluids. They’ll check your windshield wipers for wear. They’ll let you know if there’s an urgent problem that needs taken care of, and they’ll give you a heads-up about […]

The Red Menace (How to Deal with Rust) Rust. It’s worse if you drive in places that use salt on the roads in winter, or if you spend time driving near a body of salt water. But any vehicle has to deal with rust after years on the road. And it’s not just that rust […]

Fears and Gears (Signs of Automatic Transmission Problems) Automatic transmissions rule. The old days of shifting your own gears are a thing of the past for most drivers. But automatic transmission trouble can be a big inconvenience for any driver if it comes at the wrong time in the wrong place. Here are some signs […]