Checking your tire pressure regularly is crucial for proper tire care. It offers multiple benefits, including improved fuel efficiency, better road traction, safer driving, and longer tire life.
To ensure that your tires are properly inflated, it's suggested to check their pressure at least once a month when they are cold. You can also check the tire pressure when refueling your vehicle. It's important to check the pressure before heading out on long journeys or hauling heavy loads.
After driving for several miles in Cambridge, you want to try to get the tires on your vehicle rotated. This can often be done when you have your oil changed by Dunning Motor Sales.
Lifetime
One of the reasons to consider having your tires rotated is because it can help prolong the life of these important parts of your vehicle. You'll decrease the wear and tear on them along with cutting back on irregular tread.
Performance
There are many services our vehicles need to keep them driving safely down the road. One service that tends to get overlooked is alignments. Alignments are important because they ensure your vehicle’s tires touch the road at the correct angle. They also ensure the tires are perfectly centered, and the wheels are pointing in a straight direction. Alignments make adjustments to the suspension system to ensure all these things take place.
Although your vehicle is usually aligned when it’s new, certain things can affect this, such as accidents or running something over.
As members of the local community, the team here at Dunning Motor Sales is concerned about the safety of drivers in and around Cambridge. One way that we help to look out for local auto owners is by spreading the word on automotive recalls for the brands that we sell.
A recall is issued whenever a problem is detected with a vehicle that could negatively impact its performance or result in hazardous conditions. Automotive recalls may be generated as a result of the manufacturer’s own internal quality control processes or at the direction of the National Highway Traffic Safety…
As a vehicle owner, you’re probably aware of the importance of using quality fuel and keeping the tires properly aired up, but you might not know about the amount of damage that rodents can wreck under the hood and inside of your vehicle. Here are a few facts about rodents that every driver needs to know.
Rodents look for easy food sources, so clearing out food, food wrappers and drink bottles makes your vehicle far less inviting. Being aware of possible rodent hiding and nesting spots near your parking space and sealing them up with steel wool or wire…
Dampers, or shock absorbers, work to bring the car level after any bump. Springs are good to absorb the impact of bumps in the road. However, the action of springs will not stop with a single push back to the bouncing wheel. Laws of physics demand that the wheel sends the force back into the springs again and so on. To stop this cycle, car manufacturers use dampers.
Dampers attach to the axle at one end and the frame at the other. The damper is cylinder-shaped and holds a piston and oil. When the axle moves up or down, the…
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