It’s inevitable that at some point, you’ll need to schedule more than just routine maintenance for your vehicle. Hopefully, though, you won’t encounter all of these issues at once! Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure As you know, it’s usually cheaper to prevent a problem with your car than it is to fix it. Some of these common car repairs can actually help prevent bigger problems down the road (pun intended!), so be [...]
Introducing the IIHS When it comes to gauging a car’s relative safety, based on features and handling, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is the organization to which motorists turn. A nonprofit organization that is independently run, the IIHS conducts thorough tests on virtually every make and model of vehicle — be it car, truck, or semi — from each manufacturer and in every year of release. As such, they have created the [...]
There are many indicators that we can look toward to measure the development of the modern era: how small our cellphones are getting, how smart our houses have become, and how fast we can travel around the world, just to name a few. Mankind is on the cusp of democratizing space travel and we can order as many tacos as we want with a flick of our finger and have them delivered straight to [...]
Our cars have long been considered an extension of ourselves — part avatar for our personality, part member of the family. In many ways, our cars are like a dog or cat; they need to be groomed, fed regularly, and taken in for regular check-ups to ensure that they’re healthy. Anyone who owns a pet will be able to identify when they are trying to communicate that they’re hungry, sick, or want to go [...]
Have you ever heard someone say, “I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it?” The concept is simple but powerful. When asked to describe the taste of salt, you might use words like bitter or acidic or sharp, and all of those would be right and they would also be wrong. Other things have the opposite problem: everyone agrees on what something is but might disagree on what best lives [...]
Your vehicle’s transmission is responsible for harnessing your engine’s power. It allows the car to change gears, and to smoothly resume motion after a stop. The transmission also helps a car work efficiently at high speeds. For these reasons, it’s important to keep your transmission healthy. Warning Signs of a Faulty Transmission How do you know whether or not your transmission is failing? There are a number of warning signs that even a novice [...]
The temptation with any car repair shop (as with any business) is to pigeonhole them into a single service. Fast-food burger joints offer salads, shoe stores sell handbags, and Master Muffler is far more than our most popular service. While it’s true that we have been—and remain—a trusted team to help you get your oil changed, our car repair experts in Orem offer a multifaceted portfolio of services to keep your car roadworthy all [...]
When it comes to learning how cars work, car owners usually follow down one of two paths; either they learn as much as they can, picking up knowledge as they go along and showing general interest in how things work, or they choose not to learn about how the car’s various systems work in tandem to keep them moving. There is no right or wrong method. As long as the driver is responsible behind [...]
Do you recall the scene in A Christmas Story when Ralphie, (our childhood protagonist, now turned into a reflecting adult), reminisces about his father’s tires? “My old man’s spare tires were only tires in the academic sense. They were round and had once been made of rubber.” He remarks on this as we see his father pull the baldest tire imaginable from the trunk of the car and begin to swap it out for [...]
The last thing you want for yourself or your family members is to be stuck on the side of the road somewhere with unexpected car trouble. Be sure all the drivers in your family are aware of the signs of a failing transmission so they can avoid this particular inconvenience. First of all, depending on whether you drive a manual or an automatic, the signs of a failing transmission may vary. We’re not just [...]
