Performance Unlimited Blog

The holidays are coming and one thing is sure – more than a few people will have to loosen their belts a little after enjoying those wonderful holiday meals. There’s Thanksgiving with the traditional turkey dinner, including all the fixings and topped off with pumpkin or apple pie. Then Christmas rolls in with anything from a crown roast, to a ham or even another turkey. Once again the sides are appeasing to taste buds but hard on waste lines, including a wide assortment of festively decorated cookies. But, for some people living among us here in McHenry, there is little variance expected from any other meal during the year. Some folks will eat what they can afford to eat, as meager as that may be. It is with these neighbors of ours that the McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce has launched its First Annual Thanksgiving Harvest Food and Funds Drive. The program kicks off Nov. 1 with proceeds supporting FISH, the McHenry Food Pantry. Kay Bates, the president of the Chamber, said, “Ou...

Want to help, too? ( click here ) Less than a month from now, on Saturday, Nov. 19, folks who know me know where they’ll find me; at the 10th Annual Shop With Cop party at the McHenry VFW, 3002 Hwy 120 east of the Fox River. The flyer for the event is above this. You can learn the basic information about the charity from the flyer but I’d like to tell you a little more since this is one of my favorite parties and causes. Here at Performance Unlimited, as members of MC3 McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce marketing connection group, we’ve had the privilege of hosting this event since the group first became involved in 2006. The funds we help to raise go to McHenry Police Charities and benefit area children from families that are struggling with their own economic challenges. How does it work? Not long after the Shop With A Cop party, an area police officer will arrive in his or her squad car at the home of one of the children nominated by a social service agency as deserving of...

Joe has a nice two-and-a-half-car garage attached to his house in Wonder Lake. But, with projects and ‘stuff’ he hasn’t found a place for yet, instead of using the garage for his pickup truck, he has a set of sawhorses and materials on the floor where the pickup truck would go. His wife parks her car in the garage. That’s because she ‘insisted.’ “If you don’t want to clear room in the garage for your pickup truck, that’s up to you,” she told Joe. “But, my car WILL go in the garage.” Joe would like to keep his pickup truck in his Wonder Lake garage, too. But, how important is it? Actually, it’s probably more important than Joe may think. There are distinct advantages to keeping a pickup truck, or a car, in the garage. Here are a few of them: Rain, Snow and Ice, oh my: The most obvious reason to keep your pickup truck or car in the garage is that, while in the garage, the vehicle is out of the elements. The rain, the snow, the ice – the elements take their toll on a vehicle’s fin...

Oct. 12, 2016: what’s the significance of that date? For not a few Johnsburg residents, that is the first day of the coming winter season that they had to scrape frost off their car windows and windshields. This isn’t necessarily a happy thought but it is inevitable. Winter is coming and, unless you can move to another hemisphere, which isn’t a bad idea, you’ll have to deal with the effects of winter. There’s the snow, the cold and the ice. But, first, there’s the frost on your windshield. In the wee hours of Thursday, Oct. 12, 2016, the temperature outside was reported to drop down to 34 degrees. And, as result, there was frost on car windows when Johnsburg drivers went out to their cars in the morning. Of course, that wasn’t the case if their cars, SUVs or pickup trucks were parked in a garage. But, for those who were not parked in the garage, there was frost on the windshield. If you think about it, however, at 34 degrees, there shouldn’t be frost. After all, frost is ice – i...

Imagine if cars didn’t have shock absorbers? Every time the car hit a pothole, your teeth would probably slap together painfully. Every bump in the road would announce itself jarringly. Chiropractor offices would have to expand their waiting rooms to accommodate the increased demand as driving gave more and more people bad backs. Shock absorbers help to make rides more comfortable. They even protect us from injury while driving over uneven roadways at high speeds. Without shocks, occupants in cars would be tossed back and forth roughly. Along with the rest of the suspension, they make driving a pleasant experience where bumps in the road are hardly noticed. But, they actually do much more than that. Shocks play a major role in safe driving Among the occupants of a car is a key occupant known as the driver. And, without shock absorbers, when a bump threw the occupants about roughly, the bump would also throw the driver around. Even with shock absorbers, maintaining control of a c...