Automotive News & Information - Terry's Automotive & Qwik Lube

With temperatures dropping around the country, it’s understandably tempting to let your car or SUV idle to stay warm. At Terry's Automotive & Qwik Lube in Gainesville, FL, one of our goals is to keep you informed on how to best care for your performance and luxury vehicles.

At Terry's Automotive & Qwik Lube in Gainesville, we know how annoying a dead battery can be. Here’s some information on the subject, that will hopefully help you understand your battery issues a little better.

When you get in your car, truck, SUV, or minivan to drive and the A/C does not work what could be wrong? Here at Terry's Automotive & Qwik Lube, we have some simple answers to help you understand how your vehicle A/C system works. The first question we are asked is "Why isn't my air conditioner blowing cold air?" Let's talk about what could be happening.

Trucks aren’t like cars...your average personal vehicle usually holds about 5 quarts of oil, and you are supposed to change it every 3-5k miles. However, the same logic doesn’t apply to large trucks. At Terry's Automotive & Qwik Lube in Gainesville, FL, we know how important proper oil changes and diagnostics are to keep your truck on the road, for hundreds of thousands of miles. Here’s what you need to know:

Tune-ups are an important and frequently neglected aspect of automotive care. Most drivers don’t really consider the mechanical condition of their car, so long as nothing is wrong with it. However, if a vehicle is tuned-up and maintained correctly, many mechanical failures (and expenses) will be avoided altogether. So whne is the right time to get a tune-up?

Sometimes it can be hard to tell if a transmission is working the way it should or not. Is it supposed to make that noise? Is that problem a symptom of the transmission or something else? Fortunately, Terry's Automotive & Qwik Lube in Gainesville, FL has the answers.

Woman checking out under the hood where steam is coming from

Something will go wrong with your car, truck, or SUV eventually. The important thing is knowing what to do, and how to deal with it. Just knowing what to do in a situation often means the difference between a quick repair and thousands of dollars worth of work. If you see steam coming from under the hood, it’s important to deal with it appropriately and quickly. Here’s what’s going on, and what to do, from Terry's Automotive & Qwik Lube in Gainesville, FL.

Whether you drive a BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Porsche (some exclusions apply), Subaru, or other performance automobiles, your car has a cooling system. With winter right around the corner, at Terry's Automotive & Qwik Lube we want to make sure your cooling system is ready for the cold.