Keeping Your Car Young in Kentwood
December 30, 2018
As Kentwood consumers, we live in a disposable society. It's amazing all the stuff we throw away.New stuff comes out so fast in Michigan , and much of it is fairly cheap, so we just toss the old and move on. It seems like when we were kids our parents were real sticklers about taking care of our ... More
Automotive Tips from Tuffy Kentwood (Kalamazoo Ave SE): A Broken or Damaged Timing Belt
December 24, 2018
The timing belt rotates the cam shafts which open and close the valves that allow air, fuel, and exhaust to flow through the engine as it powers your car when you drive around Kentwood.An old timing belt can lose a tooth in the belt allowing it to slip. The engine could stop or misfire. Timing be... More
Battery Replacement at Tuffy Kentwood (Kalamazoo Ave SE) in Kentwood
December 17, 2018
Hello, welcome to Tuffy Kentwood (Kalamazoo Ave SE). Today's focus is batteries. It seems like everything in Kentwood runs on batteries. Of course, the batteries we're most concerned with here at Tuffy Kentwood (Kalamazoo Ave SE) are those in our customer's vehicles. Just like the batteries in o... More
Maintenance on My Mind
December 10, 2018
Ask any Kentwood man or woman if they've taken their vehicle in for preventive maintenance lately, and the answer may well be no. Surveys indicate that over 80% of vehicles on the road today are in need of some kind of repair or maintenance. Now, ask that same person why he hasn't taken his car i... More
Watching Your Check Engine Light
December 2, 2018
Did you know that most of the cars driving around Kentwood, Michigan , carry more computer power than the Apollo 121 Lunar Module that landed on the moon in 1969?New cars sold in the Kentwood area have as many as 12 networked computers and over five miles (eight kilometers) of wiring. In fact, f... More