After years and thousands of miles, vehicles' suspension system components do wear out, but how long that takes depends a lot on how you drive. As you can imagine, if most of your driving is on smooth highways, your shock absorbers will last a lot longer than if you do most of your (more)

If you hear a clunking sound from your front wheel when you make a turn, One possible cause of the problem is a worn axle. Front-wheel drive vehicles have axles that transfer power from the transmission to your front wheels. There is one for each front wheel. These axles are called constant velocity (more)

Welcome Auto Select Hortonville to the Auto Select family! The new Hortonville location becomes the 12th Auto Select shop in Wisconsin, and will be operated by Mike Molitor and the existing staff of the previous shop, AFS Service. Auto Select will be celebrating its 24th year in business this October. Started in (more)

Shock absorbers and struts last a long time for Wisconsin drivers and wear out pretty slowly for most vehicles. They're easy to take for granted, but your shocks and struts do a very important job so you need to pay attention to them. They keep your tires on the road; (more)

Almost every driver has had to deal with vehicle noises, sometimes annoying, sometimes alarming sounds from your vehicle alerting you that something unusual might be going on. Whether it’s a bang, ping, clunk or a rattle, anytime your automobile makes an unusual sound, it’s time for you to pay a (more)

It means that one or more of your tires has low air pressure. The dashboard warning light, which looks like a cross-section of a tire with some lines in it, comes on when the tire pressure is 20% below what the vehicle manufacturer recommends. So, if your recommendation is for (more)

Your radiator hoses carry coolant between your engine and radiator. It’s an important job. If a hose fails, you could lose your engine coolant which might lead to overheating and very expensive engine damage, so you want to make sure you always have good hoses. Radiator hoses are very resilient, but (more)

If you have a vehicle with an automatic transmission, you probably rarely think about gear shifting. When motor vehicles were invented, all of them had to be shifted manually. But that wonderful self-shifting transmission, referred to these days as simply an “automatic,” changed everything. Automatic transmissions have a lot of moving parts, (more)

It can be tempting to try to perform your own car repairs to save money. To make matters even more tempting, there are a seemingly infinite number of online videos that can walk you through just about anything when it comes to even the most complex car maintenance tasks. In (more)

When one of your vehicle’s warning lights comes on, the first thing that comes to mind is, “Oh, no, what’s wrong now?” When it’s the battery light, it means there’s something wrong with your vehicle’s battery or charging system. And because both are important for your vehicle to work properly, (more)