Posted on 8/21/2015
With the Labor Day holiday coming up, and our community buzzing with back to school activities we want to take a minute and encourage our neighbors here in Marysville to donate help make sure that our children have the supplies they need for the 2015-2016 school year. Snohomish County is a great place to live and we want to help encourage our youth by providing them with the best possible tools for learning. Bud’s will be making our own donation to the district for them to buy necessary supplies and encourage you to do so as well. We are happy to collect small or large amounts of actual supply donations here and deliver them for you. We know that it’s not always easy to catch someone during summer hours and would love to be the middle man for such a generous transaction. Each school is different and it may not be easy to find exactly what each school needs, but, they can always use the basics! Whatever is on sale right now is usually what they need anyway. We did a little ... read more
Posted on 8/7/2015
Car of the week blog: Week 9: 08/06/15 Bud’s is here to report in for week 8 of Car of the Week, 2002 Dodge Durango! We are mixing it up this week with a video of our “Car of the Week”. This Durango came in for diagnosis because it was making a noise that the customer knew was not normal. Upon inspection Branden found that the bearings in the front differential were horribly worn, putting metal contaminants into the diff fluid. When fluids aren’t checked and changed on a regular schedule, they aren’t able to lubricate their machine properly. When the lubrication isn’t working properly small pieces of the parts begin to break off and move in the fluid. As the fluid becomes contaminated with particles, it becomes corrosive rather than a lubricant. Within a small amount of time the fluid goes from being the piece that keeps the differential alive, to the piece that destroys it from the inside out. Click this link to see the video n ... read more