Car Care Tips & Advice

Expert guidance to keep your vehicle running at its best.

The Right Stuff (Choosing Replacement Parts)

Let's face it. Vehicles are complicated machines, each having thousands of parts. And since they're subjected to heat, cold, vibrations, bumps and much more, these parts wear out and need to be r...

March 21, 2021

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Fluids

Automobile Fluids For Your vehicle

If you've walked through the automotive fluids section of an auto parts store in Grand Haven , yo...

Mar 14, 2021 Read

Fluids

Positive and Negative (Battery Care)

You notice when your smartphone's battery starts to go weak on you. It runs out of juice faster ...

Mar 07, 2021 Read

Windshield Wipers

DOG FOOD IN YOUR ENGINE (Keeping Rodents out of your Engine)

A technician was telling us the other day that he was servicing an engine and spotted something h...

Feb 28, 2021 Read

Older Vehicles

Growing Old Together (Maintaining an Older Vehicle)

More and more of us are hanging on to our vehicles longer. A company by the name of HIS Markit r...

Feb 21, 2021 Read

Battery

The Power Behind your Engine (Alternator Diagnosis and Repair)

There's nothing like that sinking feeling when you turn the key and nothing happens in your vehic...

Feb 14, 2021 Read

Service Intervals

Recommended Service Intervals at Tuffy Grand Haven

Most people in the Grand Haven area are aware that automotive manufacturers have recommended ser...

Feb 07, 2021 Read

Windshield Wipers

In a Fog (Fogged Windows in Cold Weather)

It's bad enough in cold weather when ice and snow block your visibility. Add to that fog on the ...

Jan 31, 2021 Read

Cooling System

Taking the Heat (Heater Hose Maintenance/Repair)

If you have an internal combustion vehicle, you know it has a lot of hoses that carry various flu...

Jan 24, 2021 Read

Tires

What's in a Number? (What Tire Numbers Mean)

You've probably never paid much attention to the writing on the sides of your tires, but they con...

Jan 17, 2021 Read