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When you start your car in the morning you might notice that your car is taking unusually long to start. Your car cranks and cranks and then hard starts. Typically this could be due to a weak battery, dirty air flow meter, or if your car is in need of a tune up. This topic […]
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A common reason cars are towed into our auto repair shop is to diagnose an engine that stalls. We start diagnosis by scanning the engine computer. In this case the customer’s car was a 2002 X5 3.0i. We didn’t find any fault codes that would lead us to the cause of the engine stalling. Then
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You get in your car and you hear a mysterious water sloshing sound inside your car. First you wonder where is the sound coming from? As you drive you notice the sound is more pronounced as you brake or accelerate harder. This is a common problem in cars that are parked outside. Particularly when parked
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One of the most common reasons our customers bring their cars to us is for of excessive engine shaking. This happens when the car is at idle, sitting at a red light. This type of problem tends to be caused by an engine misfire. As the name implies, a misfire occurs when your engine doesn’t
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Even though this has been a mostly mild New York winter there are certain days where the temperature dips and we get phone calls from customers whose vehicles don’t start. The problem tends to always be a weak battery when this issue occurs on very cold days. As car batteries get old they lose their
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