Car & Vehicle Repair Blog Ottawa
How Often Should You Change Your Lawn Mower Oil?
Everyone loves a well manicured lawn. There is nothing better than watching your kids play on a freshly cut lawn while you spend the day gardening and planting new flowers or enjoying a glass of wine watching the sunset from your yard. Keeping your lawn looking nice...
Why does your hybrid car use more gas in the winter?
Why does your hybrid car use more gas in the winter?. Gas prices are lower today, especially compared to the summer of 2008. Even with these lower prices, many Canadians are still interested in green driving and are purchasing hybrid vehicles to reduce their impact on...
Tips To Help You Maintain Your Car’s Engine Oil
Tips To Help You Maintain Your Car’s Engine Oil. If you understand anything about vehicles, you would know that engine oil is to your car, what blood is to your body. Just like blood in the body, engine oil needs to be present, clean and effectively pumped through the...
Tips On How To Identify Sludge In Your Engine
Tips On How To Identify Sludge In Your Engine. Having sludge in your engine can cause a number of serious problems, that you don’t want to happen to your vehicle. These kind of problems can lead you to spend hundreds of dollars on repairs. It occurs when the sludge...
Extending Your Car’s Battery Life
Extending Your Car’s Battery Life . You don’t want to wake up one morning (which is probably very likely to be the busiest morning of the century) and realize that your car won’t start, because the battery’s done. That would be ridiculously inconvenient! You want to...
Reasons For A Flat Battery
Reasons For A Flat Battery. The leading causes of vehicles breakdowns are flat or faulty batteries. Car batteries need the chance to recharge or re-boost themselves and making short trips aren’t enough to give your battery that chance. There are some things that you...
A/C Problems In Your Car
A/C Problems In Your Car. The only thing worse than a dysfunctional A/C system in your car is…well…nothing. Nobody likes a hot car, unless it’s winter time of course. When you’re A/C is experiencing problems, it can be a hard issue to diagnose. This article will show...
Direct Injection 101 Class is in Session
Direct Injection 101 Class is in Session. How does it work? Well, from doing it, you can get a complete combustion and a cooler cylinder temperature that would result in greater competence and power, by injecting high pressure gasoline right in the combustion chamber...
Winterize Your Car before the Snow Hits Ottawa
Winterize Your Car before the Snow Hits Ottawa. Summer seems to be quickly wrapping up and that means that winter is fast approaching. Even though you may not be ready to pull out your winter coat just yet, adapting your car to colder weather before the change of...
Ever wonder why it is so hard to start a car in the winter?
Ever wonder why it is so hard to start a car in the winter?. Starting your car during the winter months can be a tricky thing in colder climates such as Ottawa and there are three primary reasons why it is hard to start your car in the chilly weather we have up here...