Marysville Auto Repair

Week 4: 06/05/15 Bud’s is here to report in for week 3 of Car of the Week, a 2008 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LT! This Chevy came in because it would not go into drive. The owner uses it to tow the family toy trailer and with the nice weather coming up having their truck in working order is completely necessary. Along with the transmission not working properly the customer also told us about a rattle under the truck when going over a bump. It’s had a little bit of recent work but not enough to keep from blowing the tranny with all the traveling and heavy hauling! So, Bud’s is on it! We had the transmission rebuilt (see pictures for new transmission). We are also doing; front brake service, all tire inspection and rotation, power steering and brake fluid flushes (with full fluid exchange). The truck is also getting a new transmission cooler and rear shocks because our tech found that they were leaking while doing our complimentary 29 point inspection ... read more

Bud’s is here to report in for week 3 of Car of the Week, a 2004 Volvo XC90! This small SUV came in a bit ago, the initial complaint was “After an oil change at Walmart, vehicle was driven over the pass and started smoking. Makes a whining noise and loses power. Check engine light is also on. Check and advise.” So, the vehicle was brought in for diagnostic (diag) and what our tech found was so sad! The engine was “blown” because of its bad oil. Bud’s uses factory specific oils (unless requested otherwise) to make sure that the vehicles we service are to factory specifications.  This vehicle’s, maintenance schedule was either neglected or the oil that was put in the Volvo was not the factory recommended oil, causing the engine to get over heated and damage itself. Our tech recommended that we rebuild the engine. It wasn’t salvageable. The customer, having just purchased the vehicle decided to go ahead with installing ... read more

Car of the week blog: Week 2: 5/21/15 Bud’s is here to report in for week 2 of Car of the Week! It is funny how things happen but… his week our featured vehicle is another 2005 Subaru Legacy. The customer came in because of a “knocking sound”. They could tell that there was something wrong with the car but didn’t know what. They may have searched “why is my car knocking” or “what is that knocking sound” on Google before scheduling an appointment, maybe not. Either way, they knew that our techs have the knowledge and tools to figure out the issue. This Subaru Legacy came in for diagnosis because of the noise it was making. Usually when your vehicle is making a noise, there is already something wrong. When our mechanic got to this vehicle for inspection and started it up he could definitely here the knocking sound. He proceeded with the 29 point inspection that every vehicle th ... read more

We are going to start a new regular Friday post called Bud's Car of the Week! To kick off our new string of posts we are going to start with one of our favorite vehicles. Our techs love to work on Subaru’s. Maybe it's because most everyone here owns their own; or maybe it's because both of our current techs have over 30 years’ experience servicing and repairing them them combined. This is a 2005 Subaru Legacy. It came in for diagnosis because it was overheating. After talking with the customer about its symptoms we learned that it had also been leaking coolant and power steering fluid. The loss of power steering fluid was probably the reason the customer was also mentioning a noise with the power steering. Our Subaru tech did our full 29 point inspection and then over another hour on top of that to check out every little area of the cooling system and power steering system to look into the specific complaint. He found that to be safe the legacy ... read more

Recently we had a 2008 Dodge Avenger in the shop. The customer’s complaint was that there was a “coolant leak”. They stated that there was coolant leaking from the radiator cap. During inspection, our tech determined that there was a blown cylinder “head gasket”. The head gasket seals the engine block and the cylinder heads. When the engine over heats, has excessive miles or is just getting old, the head gasket breaks down and can leak. When there is a leak in the head gasket fluid can get out and it is now considered “blown”. Many people know that a “blown head gasket” is bad and expensive but they don’t know why. It’s easy to question why one gasket can affect so many components but this really is the case. Since the head gasket seals some of the most essential pieces of the engine it needs to be in working order at all times or the engine fluids can leak, combine or let contaminants in. This was the case for this veh ... read more