by Dale Johnson | Dec 5, 2022 | Winter Maintenance
Is your car ready for bad weather? Rain, falling leaves, and dropping temperatures are all things we’re experiencing now in Sonoma County. It’s time to check your windshield wipers, headlights, tires, brakes, and coolant. So, in this article, we’re talking about bad...
by Dale Johnson | Jan 30, 2020 | Auto Mechanic, Brakes, Car Maintenance
A good practice to fall into is getting a brake inspection every six months. Ideally, you’d get your brakes inspected during a tire rotation, and you should get your brake fluid changed out about every year or two. What about more exigent situations, though? The...
by Dale Johnson | Dec 10, 2019 | Auto Mechanic, Brakes, Car Inspections, Car Maintenance
You might, naturally enough, think that since your car has a body that all car shops are body shops, but that’s not always the case. Some, but certainly not all, car shops are also body shops, and many body shops don’t go routine maintenance or...
by Dale Johnson | Dec 3, 2019 | Auto Mechanic, Brakes, Car Maintenance
Getting a brake inspection about every six months is the recommendation you’ll hear most often from mechanics and technicians. Normally, brake inspections are done with tire rotations during your regular scheduled maintenance – outlined by your...
by Dale Johnson | Oct 16, 2019 | Auto Mechanic, Brakes, Car Maintenance
The conventional wisdom among auto experts is that you should have your tires rotated every six months, and that’s about how long you should go between having a brake inspection as well. It can even make sense to do both inspections together so that you can get...
