Performance Unlimited Blog

It’s almost back-to-school time here in McHenry. Are you ready? Is your car, truck or SUV ready? Getting the kids ready for the opening of another McHenry school year is fairly straightforward. You’ll need the standard school supplies, which you can find by looking up the school supply list for your child or children. You’ll find the appropriate list, for each child, by going to their school district’s website, looking up school supply list and clicking on the correct school. The results are then broken down by the grade and the applicable subject. Of course, you realize that this isn’t the entire list; this isn’t all you need to prepare your child, or children for school. You’ll also need to make an excursion or two, or three, to peruse the latest fashions, making purchases that will allow them to attend school in the peak of … how do the cool kids put it these days? They’ll be so ‘swag’ when they go back to school this year. They’ll also need supplies for all those ‘other’ act...

You drive a pickup because it’s who you are and your Genoa City neighbors know what you mean. As someone who drives a pickup, you’re probably more in tune with how your pickup truck runs than most people are with how their cars or SUVs run. This means that you use your senses to monitor how your pickup is running. You nose is aware if there’s an unusual odor. For instance, you can recognize the smell if your pickup is running to rich of a fuel mixture. You also know that sickly sweet smell if your pickup has a cooling system leak. Your ears are also actively monitoring the condition of your pickup. You listen to how the motor sounds. If you hear a tapping noise, you know to check the oil before jumping to more serious considerations. Your ears pickup sounds of brakes that are squeaking or a belt that is loose or worn. You use your sense of feel to gauge if the engine is running rough, even if you can’t hear it. Your sense of feel can notice if the pickup is pulling to the left wh...

It doesn’t matter where you’re going, if you’re taking the car on a road trip this summer, you don’t want to breakdown along the way. You drive the car day in and day out, why would the car breakdown just because you’re going farther? First of all, driving farther means that the car will have more time to heat up and for parts to vibrate loose. It’s not inevitable, unless you’re a firm believer in Murphy’s Law, but it is possible. But, why worry about it before you take a trip? The answer is simple – it’s a question of what you’ll do when it breaks down. If you’re close to home, you may have to call a tow truck to pick up your car. If you can’t find someone you know to pick you up, there’s a good chance that the tow-truck driver can drop you off at your house or office. If not, you can always call a cab to pick you up. But, if your car breaks down in Wyoming, now that’s a cab ride to McHenry you never want to pay. If your car does breakdown in Wyoming, or even in Indiana, what ...

At 6:38 p.m. Wednesday, July 5, the McHenry County Sheriff's office released an advisory that Frontier, a provider of communication services in 29 states, has had an outage of service. "... subscribers with land lines are unable to call 911." But, it's not just 911 they can't call; they can't make calls at all and, while this is a headache for residential customers, it's a catastrophe for business owners in the coverage area. Performance Unlimited asks, 'Please, call 815-790-3186' "They're system has had such a meltdown that I can't even forward my Frontier number to my cell phone," said Denny Norton, the owner of Performance Unlimited. "We're trying to get the word out to customers and associates now so they can call my cell (815-790-3186) until the phone is back up. And, Frontier is telling us the service won't be back on until July 11." For Performance Unlimited, which has been in busines...

So, you’ve decided it’s time to put a lift kit on your Jeep or truck. Maybe you want to take your Jeep or truck offroad where ground clearance is a critical factor. Maybe you just like the way it looks, not to mention the improved vision from sitting higher from the road. Whatever your motivation, a lift kit can make a significant change to your Jeep or Truck. It’s even safe to say that a lift kit is transformative. When you’re done, your truck just won’t look the same. It will be like an entirely different Jeep or Truck. But, if you’re going to add a lift kit, you want to go all the way. That means that you want to do the job right. The first issue presented by adding a lift kit to your Jeep or Truck is that it will move the rear differential away from the back of the transmission. This means that the length of the driveshaft needs to increase to compensate for the change. If you don’t make this critical adjustment, you may find yourself on the side of the road when your driveshaf...