service your vehicle.  Autocheck is your one-stop, full service auto repair facility that specializes in accurate diagnostics, factory level diagnostic scan equipment, honest fair pricing, friendly compenent technicians and quality parts.

Autocheck has the skill and knowledge to repair your vehicle correctly the first time. We were established in 1996, are a proud member of the Better Business Bureau with an A+ rating.
  Autocheck is able to perform all your scheduled maintenance services to maintain your factory warranty
  Autocheck’s Preventive Maintenance Program includes:
  — Transmission flush service
  — Brake fluid flush
  — Power steering flush
  — Cooling system flush
  — Mass air flow cleaning
  — EGR service
  — Fuel injection service
  — Differential service
  — Synthetic oil change
  — Injector cleaning
  — Headlight restoration service
  — Battery service
  — Climate control ventilation service
  — Induction cleaning service

Autocheck has the trained technicians and the factory level diagnostic scanners to repair your vehicle.

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Automotive technicians say the key to keeping vehicles running well today and down the road, is routine preventive maintenance. Many drivers tend to stall when it comes to keeping up with some everyday automotive basics.

A recent survey by the Car Care Council found:

• 38 percent of cars had low or dirty engine oil.
• 54 percent had low tire pressure.
• 28 percent had inadequate cooling protection.
• 19 percent needed new belts.
• 16 percent had dirty air filters.
• 10 percent had low or contaminated brake fluid.

For your convenience, the Car Care Council developed a Service Interval Schedule to help you keep track of regular maintenance. Most of the checks and services described here can be done at little or no cost. Best of all, they are quick and easy to do.

Let’s start with one of the most important fluids of all: motor oil. It not only lubricates the engine, but also cools, cleans and protects it. But the oil itself can’t do all of these jobs without some help. Nearly half a pint of various additives are added to the typical quart of oil to improve the oil’s ability to resist heat, friction, oxidation and contamination.

Short trip driving is especially hard on oil because the engine never warms up enough to boil off the moisture that accumulates inside the crankcase. The moisture comes from combustion gases that blowby the piston rings (the older the engine, the greater the amount of blowby). Most of these gases are removed by the Positive Crankcase Ventilation (PCV) system. But in a cold engine much of the moisture condenses and ends up in the oil. Water reacts with oil to form sludge and acids, and the result is accelerated engine wear.

The only way to get rid of the accumulated moisture, acids and sludge is to change both oil and filter. The filter only removes suspended solids such as dirt, carbon and metal particles — not moisture, acids or sludge.

The oil and filter change intervals recommended by the vehicle manufacturers vary depending on the vehicle application and how the vehicle is driven. For “normal service” (which means mostly highway driving, NOT short trip city stop-and-go traffic driving), the scheduled maintenance intervals for changing the engine oil and filter range from 3,000 to as much as 7,500 miles, with the time interval being up to one year. Some vehicle manufacturers even say it is okay to replace the oil filter at every other oil change rather than every oil change.

But if you study the maintenance recommendations closely, most vehicles come under the “severe service” schedule, which generally calls for oil and filter changes every 3,000 miles or six months, whichever comes first. This is the same recommendation most aftermarket experts make. Severe service is short trip driving (7 miles or less, especially during cold weather), towing a trailer, or driving in dusty conditions.

If a newer low mileage engine is driven mostly on the highway, you can probably get away with the longer service intervals. But as an engine accumulates miles, it experiences more blowby which dumps more moisture and fuel into the crankcase. For this reason, engines with more than 70,000 miles should not use the extended oil change intervals regardless of how they are driven.

Some engines, such as diesels, suffer more blowby than others so they typically require more frequent oil and filter changes. For most passenger car and light truck diesels, 3,000 miles is still the recommended interval for all types of service.

Turbocharged engines likewise require more frequent oil changes because of the high temperatures encountered in the turbocharger bearings. A turbo can spin at tremendous speed (over 100,000 rpm in many instances). This, combined with the heat of the exhaust gases passing through the housing, creates an environment that accelerates oxidation of the oil. When the engine is shut off, for example, the temperatures inside the turbo bearing housing can soar to the point where it “cokes” the oil, forming hard black crusty deposits that can damage the turbo. Because of this, the recommended oil change interval for most turbocharged engines is 3000 miles or six months. The motor oil should be “turbo-approved” for such applications, or a synthetic motor oil.

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To do this it must apply many times the car’s engine power.

Our inspections include:

• Pads
• Rotators
• Shoes
• Calipers
• Master Cylinder
• Lights
• Parking Brake
• Brake Line
• Brake Hoses
• Wheel Cylinder

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With over 25 years of experience on exhaust sytems here at Autocheck, its no secret this is one of our specialties!  At Autocheck we offer a full range of exhaust service options from inspection, diagnosing of the system to mufflers and exhaust systems replacement.

Whether you need a high performance exhaust system, catalytic converter replacement or any other services for your domestic or foreign car, light truck or van, we can get the job done! Properly functioning exhaust system is very important for your safety and for reducing harmful emissions going into the atmosphere. Stop by Autocheck today for all your exhaust needs.

Frequent care and repairs of the exhaust system are needed for every modern vehicle.

• Free inspections
• Custom exhaust systems
• Tail pipes
• Manifolds
• Mufflers
• Custom pipe bending
• Dual exhaust
• Catalytic converter

Come in today for your FREE estimate!

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Besides checking the level of the coolant periodically to make sure it isn’t low (which usually indicates a leak), the strength and condition of the antifreeze should also be checked. Most vehicle manufacturers recommend a 50/50 mixture of water and antifreeze for normal freezing and boil over protection. Up to a 70/30 mixture of antifreeze and water can be used to maximize freezing protection, but higher concentrations should not be used. Straight water or straight antifreeze should never be used in a vehicle’s cooling system.

Determining the condition of

the coolant is a little more difficult because appearances alone can be deceiving. If the coolant is brown and discolored, it is obviously long overdue for a change. But even if it is still green or orange or yellow, there’s no way to tell how much corrosion protection is still in the coolant without measuring its “reserve alkalinity.” This can be done with chemically-treated test strips that give a good-bad indication by color changes.

If the cooling system is low and needs additional coolant, make sure you use the correct type of coolant or a type that is compatible with the coolant that is already in the system.

Most vehicle manufacturers recommend changing green coolant every two to three years or 30,000 miles to replenish the corrosion inhibitors in the antifreeze. Longer-lived orange and yellow coolants have a recommended service life of 5 years or 150,000 miles. If the cooling system is dirty, use a flush to remove rust and scale.

Starting in 1996, new General Motor vehicles were factory-filled with a new 5 year, 150,000 mile long-life coolant called “Dex-Cool.” The coolant is dyed orange to distinguish it from ordinary antifreeze. If it is intermixed with ordinary coolant, the corrosion inhibitors can react reducing the corrosion protection to that of normal coolant (2 to 3 years or 30,000 miles).

A number of long-life aftermarket antifreezes are on the market now that can also be used in older vehicles to extend the coolant change interval to five years or 150,000 miles.

For the environmentally conscious, you can also get antifreeze that is propylene glycol based. The main difference is that it is less toxic than ordinary ethylene glycol antifreeze (reduces risk of accidental poisoning if the cooling system leaks and an animal licks it up).

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Cool Car Tips:  Legally, you can have maintenance performed by any mechanic without affecting your warranty.  Just keep thorough records in case of a warranty claim.  The only services that need to be perf ormed at the dealership are warranty repairs, recall

or post-warranty work that you wan the manufacturer to pay for.