Performance Unlimited Blog

There is plenty to celebrate as we bid 2017 adieu and welcome in 2018. What are your plans for New Year’s Eve? What a great night to join some friends and party. Just think of the letdown, however, if the night ends in handcuffs or on an ambulance gurney. Why should you wind up in handcuffs or on an ambulance gurney? A little too much party, mixed with an unwise decision to drive is a roll of the dice, at best. Maybe you’ve ‘proven’ that you can have a few drinks and make it home alright, the other times when you rolled the dice. But, you never know when those dice are going to come up snake eyes. What does a DUI defense cost these days? Talk about a ‘loaded’ question. Here are some estimates of how much you could expect to pay related to a DUI: $200: Towing and impounding your car (the police have a nasty habit of not letting you drive the car after they arrest you for drunk driving) $25,000: legal fees $4,000: DUI fines and fees $500: DUI classes (10 - $50 per class) $20...

All Virginia wanted to do was get home. After all, who really wants to work Christmas Eve. With two young children at home, she had struggled to keep her mind on her work all day. Now, with the sun setting over the McHenry horizon, she rushed out to the car driven by the anticipation of the joyful greeting she would receive when she came in the door back at home. That hour of Christmas Eve the roads were fairly empty, save for a few last-minute shoppers or those heading to the occasional party. But Virginia hardly noticed them; her focus was on getting home to spend some time with her son and daughter, witnessing their youthful exuberance with thoughts of Santa Claus bringing presents down the chimney. She was so focused, in fact, that she drove several miles before she noticed that one of the lights in her dashboard was brightly burning a warning. Virginia actually didn’t notice the light until the car started to act up. The engine started to run rough. Then, it started to los...

There is a good reason you can count on your car to start throughout the Wonder Lake winter that is swiftly approaching. You have an integrated charging/starting system under your hood with parts and mechanisms that work together to ensure your car will start when you want it to. There is one primary reason that system might fail you sometime this winter. The system generally fails because someone has attended to the charging/starting system as diligently as they should have. We all know that winter rolls around in Wonder Lake this time of year. Due diligence means that you’ll have your charging/starting system checked before the worst of winter arrives. But, some of us put it off. Some even neglect to check their charging/starting system altogether. If you go out and start the car today, the car starts. So, what’s the problem? Better to ask ‘What could possibly go wrong?’ The answer is plenty, and you really could find yourself stranded on a Wonder Lake road, or worse, a road some...

The coolant/antifreeze that flows through the veins and arteries of your car’s engine and radiator are essential to the vitality, endurance and efficient operation of your car. As a coolant, it carries away heat caused by friction between moving engine parts. As antifreeze, it avoids the risk of freezing so it can’t flow when you start the car. It’s amazing that something as vital as coolant/antifreeze depends on something so simple as rubber hoses to transfer the coolant/antifreeze from engine block to radiator, as well as the heater core. If, in its coolant function, it was not able to literally take the heat, your coolant/antifreeze would let your car down. At the minimum, your car will overheat. Far worse is the possibility that you could do serious damage to your engine. If, in its antifreeze role, it froze at low temperatures, your coolant/antifreeze would also let your car down. What if you don’t have enough coolant/antifreeze in your car? Coolant that isn’t there can’t ca...