Marysville Auto Repair

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