Automotive Belts, While Lasting Longer Than Ever, Still Wear Out Over Time
Belts continue to be one of the most replaced wear items on vehicles today.
Stacked Alignment: Solving Lead/Pull Conditions
When looking to cure a lead/pull problem, look for key signs that can indicate an issue with stacked tolerances of different components and systems.
The Most Common Fall Auto Repairs? Get Ready for Suspension and Engine Work
With the change of season, it seems a new car repair seems to rise on the list of popularity. And as fall is upon us, you need to be ready for what repairs await your shop.
BBB Industries Receives O’Reilly Auto Parts Award
BBB Industries was recognized with O’Reilly Auto Parts’ 2017 Sales & Service Award at O’Reilly’s annual managers conference in Dallas, Texas.
ContiTech Hose Plant Celebrates 40 Years
Continental’s North American automotive hose plant located in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, is celebrating 40 years in operation.
Belt Inspection Checklist
You might have only one chance to sell a customer a new serpentine belt. With belts lasting roughly 90,000 miles, proper inspection at the time of failure is critical not only for selling the belt, but also for ensuring add-on sales and better customer satisfaction.
These are the steps you should be performing on every car or truck that enters your shop.
Scrub Radius and Alignments
Custom wheels and oversized tires can look good and give a vehicle a unique appearance. But it’s what you can’t see that can become really ugly, especially if the alignment and suspension angles have become altered in the installation process.
The Changing Functional Fluid & Filters Market
What ever happened to the $19.95 oil change? The answer is that it disappeared, along with the “dinosaur” oils of the day. Using the $19.95 oil change as an example of the unique challenges faced by the auto repair industry in general, its original intent was to attract vehicles into the service bay for visual
The Evolving Vehicle
Cars have come a long way since the first “production” vehicles made by Karl Benz. Power steering, automatic transmission, ABS systems and even TPMS, these technologies seem light years ahead of the technology in the first road car. Today we’re going even further, entering a new era of vehicle – the “smart” car. The autonomous
Three Goodyear Employees Receive Women in Manufacturing Honor
The Manufacturing Institute has honored three Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. employees with a Woman in Manufacturing STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering and Production) Ahead Award for 2016. Aditi Saran, a technology team leader for Goodyear’s new product industrialization team at its Fayetteville, N.C., tire plant; Anna Klein, a continuous improvement leader at Goodyear’s chemical plant
