Archive for the ‘Amy's Garage’ Category
Car Care Council Launches Digital Car Care Guide.
The Car Care Council has launched a digital version of its popular Car Care Guide. I think it’s a ‘Must Have’ for all drivers. Great information!
The Car Care Guide uses easy-to-understand everyday language, instead of technical automotive jargon, and fits easily in a glove box. The guide covers the most common preventive maintenance occasions and [...]
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Check Engine Light
The Check Engine Light is an important part of your car’s computer system which controls and monitors a vehicle’s performance, regulating such variables as engine speed, fuel mixture, and ignition timing.
If the light is blinking pull over ASAP, turn off the vehicle and call for a tow truck. If you keep driving you could cause [...]
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Keep Your Car Clean in the Winter
Vermont = Snow and Icy Road Conditions = Salt = Rust on your Car.
The salt they put on our roads to keep us safe will corrode the body, brake and fuel lines, gas tank and other rust-sensitive components of your vehicle. You can loose years of driving because of RUST!
The experts say you need to [...]
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Are you addicted to your cell phone?
Cell phones are not only for phone calls anymore. They include cameras, music, games. They connect us to facebook, our email, and the internet. Cell phones are a truly remarkable technology that conveniently connects us to the whole world, yet they are small enough to fit inside a pocket or a handbag.
Yet there is a [...]
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Properly Storing Tires
It is VERY important to properly store your tires, summer tires during the winter / and your winter tires during the summer.
If you don’t, you could potentially permanently damage the tire
To properly store your tires:
* Put each tire in it’s own storage bag. {At Auto Craftsmen we provide you with storage bags.}
* The perfect environment for [...]
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How Well Are Your Windshield Wipers Working?
The lowly windshield wiper is easily forgotten and taken for granted until you really need it.
If it’s worn out and can’t keep up with the rain, sleet and snow, then it gets growled and cursed at when really it’s your own fault because you didn’t think about it beforehand.
Since about 90% of all driving decisions are [...]
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6 Steps to get your Car ready for Old Man Winter
When I woke up to snow falling last week there was no more denying that winter was going to be here way sooner then later. The time is here to dig out sweaters, coats, boots, hats, gloves and to get the car all ready for the next six months of cold, sleet, snow and slippery [...]
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The Mice will Play when the Cats Away
OK, I haven’t posted in over 5 months.
I could give you multiple excuses, but the bottom line is that now I’m back.
ONLY, my blogs platform: WordPress has upgraded, and I lost all my menu items on the right. So, now I’ll have to call my IT guys on Monday and have them fix this, which [...]
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3 Wheeled Car
Carver 3 Wheeled Car
One wheel in the front the leans waaaaaaaaaaaay over like a motorcycle, with 2 wheels in the back that stay on the ground. 11 feet long, 4 feet wide x 4.5 feet high. You sit in a cockpit with a regular steering wheel, accelerator pedal, 5 speed transmission with clutch and a [...]
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The ‘Times Argus’ liked Auto Craftsmen’s Women Car Care Clinic
A workshop for women about cars
MONTPELIER: TIMES ARGUS NEWSPAPER – After Kathryn Bramman’s husband died last year, she became responsible for her vehicle’s maintenance for the first time.
On Saturday, Bramman joined about 12 other women for the first Women’s Car Care Clinic at Auto Craftsmen.
Amy Mattinat, who owns the garage on outer State Street, has [...]
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