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Is the 100,000 mile tune up a joke or a myth?

June 3rd, 2009
Some would say the auto maker’s move to 100,000 mile “tune-up” intervals on many new vehicles will finally kill the tune-up as we know it today. Unlikely, what the car makers are really talking about are 100,000 mile spark plug change intervals — which does not include the need for other maintenance such as [...]


What is a drive-ability problem as opposed to a tuneup?

April 21st, 2009
Drive-ability is the new term to replace tune up. Car and truck engines are so advanced now that the term tune up is too vague and does not apply as it did 15 years ago. There are so many more reasons now that a car can drive poorly, it was an easy change in terminology [...]