Posts by Dennis Vieira
Tylers Auto TV Engine Air Filter Replacement
When your experienced Tylers Auto TV technician changes your oil, he will also inspect your air filter. You shouldn’t need a new air filter at every oil change, but you will need to change it regularly. Heed your technician’s auto advice if they tell you to change your air filter. An air filter does what its name…
Read MoreFresh Air Inside Your Car in TIGARD
Air quality has certainly become a hot issue in our modern world. We install air filters on our ventilation systems and in our vacuum cleaners. There’s a filter that cleans the air going into our vehicle’s engine — so why not one for the air in the passenger compartment? Foreign and domestic vehicle manufacturers haven’t…
Read MoreCruisin’ on Down Main Street
When automakers first came out with cruise control, it was a real luxury item. The older cruise controls used a mechanical vacuum system but it worked. Well, some of the time. Now days, cruise control is all electronic, thanks to computers. It’s reliable and a real convenience on long trips. Cruise control is offered on…
Read MoreAsk Tylers Auto TV: What Happens When a Serpentine Belt Breaks?
The serpentine belt is aptly named since it snakes around under your hood. It may lack its namesake’s fangs, but it sure packs a wallop when it breaks. The serpentine belt powers a lot of engine systems. It runs the alternator, which charges the battery; the water pump (on some vehicles), which cools the engine;…
Read MoreLet Tylers Auto TV Help You Keep Your Vehicle Another Couple of Years
TIGARD area residents may remember when the U.S. government’s “Cash for Clunkers” program made a splash on the news scene. People were offered incentives to trade in old vehicles for new, in the interest of better and improved air quality from reduced emissions. But a lot of TIGARD drivers want to hang onto their old…
Read MoreThe Tylers Auto TV Basic Guide To Synthetic Oil
Synthetic motor oil has been around for a long time, and more and more new vehicles are leaving factories with synthetic in their engines. But a lot of drivers don’t really know much about it. Let’s start with conventional oil – the kind folks are used to. Conventional oil is made up of naturally occurring hydrocarbon…
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