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But have your car, truck or SUV checked before leaving your McHenry home It’s summer in McHenry, you’ve got your car, truck or SUV and the roads will take you almost anywhere you want to go. That’s some serious freedom stretching out along the concrete and asphalt, beckoning you to explore the sights and activities that abound on a summer day. Those roads will take you near or far from your McHenry home. And they’ll bring you back when you’re ready to return. Well, that’s the plan anyhow. What could spoil the plan? This time of year, you could run into road construction . While inconvenient, there’s always alternate routes so you can continue on your way. But, if your car, truck or SUV breaks down, that’s another matter. What could possibly go wrong to leave you stranded on the side of the road somewhere? There are any number of possibilities. You could have a flat tire . That’s one of the most common possibilities. You pickup a nail or a screw somewhere and, next thing you know, you’r...

Arches National Park, in Utah, is just  one  of many spectacular vacation destinations in America where folks from Wonder Lake can vacation this summer. It’s summer and a great time for outdoor activities, such as barbeques in your Wonder Lake backyard. But summer is also a time to get away from it all. In other words, it’s time to escape for a little while and go on a vacation. You may want to fly somewhere but, if you think about it, that’s more of the kind of excursion you want to save for winter. You get on an airplane for a vacation that will take you to an exotic destination where one of the best aspects is the absence of cold and snow. Most of us don’t drive up to Northern Wisconsin in January to go camping. But camping up there in June or July is perfect. Maybe you want to head West and visit national parks, such as: Arches National Park in Utah Badlands National Park in South Dakota Big Bend National Park in Texas Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico Glacier N...

Most people think of winter as hard on their car battery. But, as another McCullom Lake summer rolls in, we find that this is the season that is really hard on your car battery. We all know that McCullom Lake winters are hard on your car, truck or SUV battery, right? After all, when are you more likely to need to replace the battery in your vehicle? Are you more likely to find yourself with a dead battery on a nice day in June or a bitter cold night in January? Obviously, the answer is January. That cold night in McCullom Lake will find your battery can’t do the job of starting your car, truck or SUV. You’ll be calling for a jump and you’ll wind up replacing the battery. It’s all terribly clear … or is it? In reality, summers are much harder on car, truck and SUV batteries. Why? Because heat is hard on batteries and extremely hot days are brutal on batteries. You’re thinking this doesn’t make sense? Yes, a weak battery is more likely to show up in the winter because a battery has to wo...

There are warm, even hot days ahead. Is the coolant in your cooling system up to the task? Warm summer days are coming to Richmond, some of them even hot; while that’s a pleasant thing to think about, one question you should ask yourself is whether the coolant protecting your car’s engine is up to the task. In 2024, there were 24 days through the summer in Richmond where the temperature topped 90 degrees, and 63 days in the 80s.* That’s 87 days where the coolant in your car’s engine better be up to the task. Keep in mind that, with operating temperatures, a car can actually overheat on a bitterly cold day in winter, if the coolant isn’t able to keep the engine cool. And it’s not just the coolant; your vehicle depends on an entire cooling system to keep the engine from overheating. Your car’s cooling system starts with hoses and passageways to move the coolant through the engine and a radiator, as well as a heater core in the dashboard. You have an upper radiator hose where the coolant ...