Improving Fuel Mileage

As gas prices continue to rise, fuel mileage becomes even more important. If your car hasn't had a tune up in a while it may be time to do it. Check your tire pressure, low air pressure in tires causes poor mileage as does quick starts. Allowing your car to accelerate smoothly will improve your mileage. Make sure to change your oil and filters regularly, dirty oil does not lubricate as well as fresh oil and causes extra friction and heat in your motor.

Using a test light

Troubleshooting electrical problems is easy, first connect the ground clip to a known good ground source, the battery negative terminal is best but any grounded metal source will work. Then connect the pointed end of the test light to desired circuit to be tested. If power is present, the testlight bulb will illuminate.

Car Cranks but won't Start

What do you do when your car cranks but won't start? There are three things that need to happen inside an engine to run; fuel, compression and ignition. If any of the three are missing, the engine will not run. Sometimes the engine will have fuel, but not in sufficient pressure or volume to work. Following our troubleshooting guide above will help you figure it out quickly.