Keeping Your Air Fresh When Driving With A Clean Cabin Air Filter Pop quiz: What is a cabin air filter? A. A filter for your Minnesota house? B. A fresh, piney scent? C. A filter for the passenger compartment of your car? Clever you, it’s C. A cabin air filter cleans the outside air before […]
10 Services Drivers Often Overlook Vehicles are complex, mechanical instruments with a lot of working parts. Often, we remember the most important things to keep the car going in the short term: filling the gas tank, checking tire pressure, and getting the oil changed. But maximizing the life of your car really depends on keeping […]
Recommended Minnesota Service Intervals Everyone in Minnesota, North Dakota knows we are advised to go to our Minnesota dentist twice a year. Oral-conscious Minnesota residents have a teeth-cleaning and examination. Once a year, we get x-rays to look for problems that can’t be seen with the naked eye. When our dentist is done, he/she tells […]
The Fallacy of Cheap Tires Do you ever shop for shoes in one of our Kennedy Transmission Brake & Auto Service area shoe stores? When buying a running shoe, is quality important? Does durability matter as long as the shoes look fabulous? Would you rather have one pair of long lasting shoes or two pair […]
Why People Hesitate to Get their Vehicle Serviced A recent report stated that over 80 percent of the vehicles on our Minnesota North Dakota roads have one or more service or repair that’s needed, but hasn’t been taken care of. Now that’s a lot of undone service. That translates into something over 160 million vehicles […]
It’s About Time: Following Service Intervals There are a lot of things in life that Minnesota residents have to do on a regular basis. We wash dishes every day, do our laundry and mow our lawns every week, and pay the bills every month. We should go to our Minnesota dentist twice a year and […]
Your engine gets blisteringly hot, even during cold Minnesotan winters. With temperatures upwards of 200 degrees, it would be easy for overheating without a cooling system. Just like when your phone shuts off due to overheating, your engine would fail to run – and worse, you could end up damaging it. To help you keep […]
Easy Miles for Your Vehicle Have you ever noticed that your auto maker has a schedule in your owner’s manual for what is called “severe service” maintenance? Let’s define what severe driving conditions aren’t: The easiest driving a vehicle experiences is traveling on the interstate for twenty miles or more at a constant rate of […]
How to Drive Defensively Car care is a critical part of auto safety in Minnesota. But the most important thing we can do to improve safety on Minnesota roads is to drive safely. Defensive driving is safe driving. And defensive driving is all about attitude. You have to decide that you will be a safe driver, no […]
