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Engine

FAQ

The automotive repair specialists at Carage take great pride in their knowledge and expertise in rebuilding, repairing, and servicing automotive engines. We hope the following questions and answers about engine repair are helpful to anyone in the Jupiter area that has a problem with their car or truck engine.

Here are some common questions about Engine.

There have been times when the technicians at Carage have found spark plugs seized in the cylinder heads of some of our Jupiter area customers’ vehicles with as little as 60,000 miles on them. The removal of these seized plugs can result in hours of labor by our technicians at Carage. There have been rare occasions when Carage has needed to remove cylinder heads just to get the spark plugs removed. Carage suggests that in order for our customers in the Jupiter are to maintain peak performance for their vehicles, that their spark plugs should not be run longer than 30,000 miles. Carage suggest that consumers should take those 100,000 mile spark plug marketing claims of manufacturers with a grain of salt.

Carage can understand why our customers in the greater Jupiter area would wonder if the presence of a knocking, or pinging sound, coming from their vehicles’ engines should be of concern. Carage tells our customers that the presence of an occasional engine knocking or pinging noise will not necessarily be harmful to the engine. Additionally, when a pinging or knocking noise from the engine can be heard, it does not indicate a switch should be made to gasoline with a higher octane level. But if the pinging or knocking in the engine becomes persistent or heavy, that knocking sound could be the indication of a more serious car engine problem and to avoid any damage we suggest our customers bring their vehicle to Carage and let a member of our skilled auto repair mechanic team inspect the engine knocking to avoid any potential to the vehicle’s engine. Of course Carage invites you to schedule online.

One of the most common problems the customers of Carage contact us about is the “check engine light” problem! The check engine light on a vehicle, also known as the “Service Engine Soon” light is known to the automatic transmission specialists at Carage as MIL, standing for Malfunction Indicator Lamp. Carage tells our customers that rely on us to offer the best transmission repair in the Jupiter area, these are all frightening names for the same thing, and they need not be frightened at all. When the check engine light appears on the dashboard it is indicating that the computer in the vehicle has identified a problem that needs the attention of a skilled automatic transmission specialists like those employed at Carage.

When the check engine light appears, Carage advises that the vehicle be brought into our auto repair shop and have the computer system checked and scanned to pinpoint any areas that may have shifted outside normal operational ranges. And while our automatic transmission technicians know this may sound baffling to our average customer, in reality the check engine light problem is the vehicle’s computer’s method of letting a vehicle owner know they should bring it to Carage to have it checked. Fortunately the technology is intended to help bring problems to the attention of the vehicle’s owner that might not be noticed during normal driving conditions, and it should be inspected and diagnosed by an automatic transmission specialist before becoming more serious.

Quite often our customers in the Jupiter area that rely on us for our automatic transmission expertise wonder why their vehicle’s system needs check engine light. Our transmission technicians are quick to inform customers that as a vehicle’s operating system(s) have become more technologically advanced the more that same system needs to assist in monitoring and diagnosing problems.

As most recently manufactured vehicles have been developed to operate much cleaner than those being driven around the Jupiter area just a decade ago, the majority of the time the check engine light problem is indicative of an emission problem the vehicle is experiencing. And even though a vehicle’s owner is not always concerned about environmental issues, a light check engine light indicator that results from an emission problem should be checked by an auto repair technician as any problem that results in increased emissions may in turn result in lower fuel efficiency, or in other words the burning of more gas!

Another reason not to ignore a check engine light when driving around the Jupiter area is that when circulating additional fuel through an engine, the result can be a catalytic converter forced to work overtime to burn offer excessive hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide. This can result in the catalytic converter overheating and burning out over a very short driving distance. And when being required to pass the next smog or emission test, the replacement of a catalytic converter can be quite costly.

Fortunately for those in the Jupiter are that have a check engine light problem, they can call Jupiter and take advantage of our skilled automotive technicians who use the latest and most up to date check engine light diagnostic equipment designed to diagnose even the most complex computer system today’s modern vehicles. If you live in the Jupiter area and have a check engine light problem, use our appointment form today!