Category: Auto Maintenance
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Spare Tire: Your Best Friend When You Need it Most
The Importance of Having a Spare Tire and Making Sure it’s Ready When You Need It. Here in Elizabethtown, a flat tire can happen anytime, anywhere, leaving you stranded if you’re not prepared. So, having a spare tire in your car or truck is an essential safety measure. Because it can save you from waiting…
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Heater Core: Everything You Need to Know to Stay Warm
What Is Your Vehicle’s Heater Core and When Does It Need Replacement? We are having some chilly days here in St. Matthews. And it’s this time of year where we have a new appreciation for our car’s heater. But, it’s our vehicle’s heater core that allows our heater to keep us toasty during the cold…
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Transmission Fluid: Why is it So Important? Here’s the Scoop
Understanding Transmission Fluid: What It Is, Why It’s Important, and When to Change It Transmission fluid is the lifeblood of your vehicle’s transmission system. And for Radcliff drivers, it’s what lubricates the moving parts within their car or truck’s transmission, helps regulate temperature, and allows for seamless gear shifts. So, whether you have an automatic…
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Your Car Heater: How it Works and What to do When it Doesn’t
Why Your Car Heater Stops Working and What to Do About It There’s nothing worse than hopping into your car or truck on a Louisville cold, rainy day, only to find that your car heater isn’t working. Because when your vehicle’s heater stops blowing warm air, it can make driving anywhere miserable… and even unsafe…
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Donuts? Vehicle Tire or Delicious Food: Meineke Explains
What do Donuts Have to Do With Your Car or Truck? Here in Louisville, we love a good donut. But, what do donuts have to do with or car or truck? Well, there is a specific spare tire that is referred to as a donut. A donut spare tire, also known as a space-saver or…
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Your Car’s Suspension System: What You Need to Know
Understanding Your Car’s Suspension System and How to Maintain It For many of us in Louisville, we know being well informed is our best strategy to avoid problems. And this goes for issues that involve your car or truck, as well. So, in the spirit of “knowledge is power”, your Meineke Car Care center in…
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Tire Blowout While Driving! Your Best Advice From Meineke
What to Do During a Tire Blowout While Driving Picture this: Your driving merrily down Outer Loop this holiday season here in Louisville heading home from Paristown’s annual Fête De Noël when suddenly… BOOM! You’ve had a blowout. And while experiencing a tire blowout can be an alarming situation, staying calm and taking the right…
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Warped Rotors: What that Means and What to do About It
What Does It Mean When Your Vehicle’s Rotors Are Warped? Residents in Louisville had a fun night at Christmas Karaoke at Tinsel Tavern last week. And while most of the fun is listening to voices that wobble and warp, what’s not so much fun is when it’s our vehicle’s rotors that wobble and warp. So,…
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Warped Rotor: Resurfacing vs. Replacement. Your Best Option.
What Does a Warped Rotor Mean for Your Car? The last thing we in Louisville need at the start of this busy season, is car issues. So, when this happens, finding the most affordable solution is key. And this is even more important with issues that affect your safety on the road, like your brake…
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Your Car’s Mighty Emergency Brake! How to Keep it Maintained
The Importance of Your Car or Truck’s Parking Brake Winter is here and we in Louisville have been greeted with a winter weather advisory. And this means snow… and lots of it. But, when driving on the road or parking on the streets, we can feel safe because vehicles are equipped with a braking back-up…