Performance Unlimited Blog

Perhaps you plan to stay home for the Labor Day weekend. Then again, you might join the millions of other Americans who make the holiday one of the busiest weekends for traffic each year. Some drive to the lake for fun on and by the water. Other’s take a final vacation before the school year kicks into gear. And others go to visit friends and family that decided to stay home for the holiday. Whatever your destination, if you’re hitting the road Labor Day weekend, you want to make sure your car will get you to your destination safely and without mechanical mishaps. You also want to arrive back home afterwards without difficulties. The key is to make sure the car is ready to go before you go. Look at it this way – while preparing the car for the trip, you can also prepare the car for the winter ahead. Preparing the car for a trip Labor Day weekend, or preparing the car for winter, involve the same basic mechanical checks, including: The Fluids: This includes everything from the...

As summers go, this is a fairly mild variety here in McHenry County. Yes, we’ve seen plenty of days in the 80s, and topped the 90s once or twice. But, by and large, this hasn’t been an excessively hot summer. And McHenry County has had some hot summers in the past. All the same, if someone working outside, 80s and 90s are a bit toasty. If you’re car’s air conditioning isn’t working properly, you may also have a different perspective on how to rate the summer heat scale for this McHenry County summer. When you park to go into a store, the inside of the car turns into an oven when it’s 80 degrees outside. And if it’s in the 90s … OH BOY!! When you come back to the car, the first thing you want to do is turn the air conditioning on. At first, the air conditioning will blow hot air out of the vent. You might even want to wait standing with the door open until the hot air passes. But, soon, the air will turn cool and you can slide into the car and into the flow of that cool and soothi...