Fuel Saving Tip: Alignment For Your Kalispell Subaru
Imagine you’ve left Kalispell and you’re up in the arctic on a dog sled. Your dog team is pulling straight and true. You can cover a lot of ground fast. Now imagine what would happen if one or two of the dogs wanted to go their own way and were pulling off to the side. [...]
Custom Wheels and Tires For Your Kalispell Ride
It seems like everywhere you go in the Kalispell area you see custom wheels. Big trucks, little cars, mini-vans – it doesn’t matter, people are expressing themselves with custom wheels. Some people want smaller tires and wheels – some want larger – and some want them enormous. So where do you start if you want [...]
On Board Diagnostics For Kalispell Motorists
Some Kalispell motorists are confused by Loren’s Auto Repair charges for diagnostic services for a vehicle repair. Many services at Loren’s Auto Repair and other Kalispell automotive repair shops include diagnostic fees. When you take your laptop into a Kalispell computer repair shop for a problem you’ll likely have to leave a deposit for diagnostics. [...]
Fuel Saving Tip: Car Weight And Your MT Driving
Weight is the enemy of fuel economy. Everyone from here to Big Fork knows this makes sense. Some of us in the Big Fork area carry a bunch of unnecessary weight, and I’m not talkin’ what you see in the mirror. Guys; sports equipment and tools. Ladies; well, just take a look around the passenger [...]
Service to Improve Fuel Economy
The price of gas has got everyone talking. It seems that people who need a bigger vehicle to carry family and gear, or provide four wheel drive, are especially hit hard. That is why we thought it would be good to review some things that anyone can do to improve fuel economy. First let’s start [...]
Fuel Injector Cleaning In Whitefish, Columbia Falls, and Big Fork
In very simple terms, a fuel injector is a valve that squirts fuel into your Subaru engine. Your engine control computer tells the fuel injector how much fuel to deliver as well as the precise time it should be delivered. Of course this happens thousands of times a minute in every single fuel-injected car driving [...]
Tracking True In MT: Wheel Alignment In Kalispell
Wheel alignment is often overlooked by busy Kalispell and Whitefish car owners until serious tire damage has been done. One wheel can be knocked out of alignment from the rest by hitting a curb or pothole on Kalispell roads. When a vehicle’s out of alignment, one or more of the wheels does not track true [...]
Keys to a Long Lasting Vehicle
We’re living in a disposable society. Everything from elaborate packaging to our clothing. Even cell phones are disposable. When replacement is cheaper than repair, the term “built to last” goes by the wayside. An exception is our vehicles. They’re still a very big investment and we want to make them last as long as possible [...]
Serpentine Belt Replacement Near The Kalispell Area
Don’t you hate it when you hear that squeal from under the hood when you’re driving aroun Kalispell? It usually means there is a problem with the serpentine belt. The serpentine belt powers a lot of engine accessories. It runs the alternator-which charges the battery, the water pump-which cools the engine, the air conditioning and [...]
Keeping Your Subaru Young
Sometimes it seems in Kalispell we live in such a disposable society. It’s amazing all the stuff we throw away. New stuff comes out so fast, we just toss the old and move on. It seems like when we were kids in Kalispell, our parents were real sticklers about taking care of our stuff. You [...]
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