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Friday, December 21, 2012
Santa at the Library Today
Posted by Billy Craft Automotive on 4:34 AM
Santa is coming to the Lynchburg Library today, December 21st from 10 AM to 12PM and from 1PM to 3PM. Santa will be listening to children's wishes, sharing cookies and reading aloud. Parents are encouraged to bring cameras and capture the moment when your child sits on Santa's lap....
Friday, December 14, 2012
What to do if your brakes stop working
Posted by Billy Craft Automotive on 7:30 AM
Suppose you're driving down the freeway one day. As you're about to take the exit, you tap on the brakes -- and you don't slow down. No matter how hard you press, nothing happens. You have no brakes! What are you going to do?
When you press on the brake pedal in almost all cars today, you're pushing on a piston. That piston pushes on brake fluid in the master cylinder, pressurizing the brake fluid. It flows through thin pipes, called brake lines, to pistons at each wheel. Those pistons apply pressure to the brake pads, and they squeeze against a disk or a drum to stop the car. If you were to have a catastrophic loss of brake fluid or if someone...
Friday, December 7, 2012
Top 5 Signs of Engine Trouble
Posted by Billy Craft Automotive on 11:22 AM
5. Warning Lights: If your car is working properly, these are what Audra Fordin of "What Women Auto Know" calls "hello, good morning" lights. You fire up theengine and the dashboard lights up like carnival. This is the car's computer checking everything out. One by one, each of the lights turns off and you're ready to drive.
If they don't turn off, though, that's bad. Either very bad or slightly bad, depending on which light remains lit. These lights are connected to sensors that monitor everything your car does. If something seems out of whack, the computer will use these lights to tell you what it is. It can't use its words; it's not KITT,...
