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Antifreeze Health
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Here is the newest addition to the Barber family. Meet Paul Jeffrey Burroughs, son of Carey and Paul Burroughs. Carey is Brian's daughter and they live in Denison. Paul Jeffrey was born on October 23, at 11:05 AM weighing 5 lbs, 11 oz, and measuring 19" long.
Antifreeze Health
Antifreeze is a very important component of your car. It keeps your radiator fluid from freezing in very cold temperatures and from boiling in very hot temperatures. Usually in the fall of every year, you bring out our antifreeze tester to determine the freeze point of the antifreeze. An antifreeze tester comes in a couple different forms and here is a quick overview of what they can do and how.
"Each brand of antifreeze tester device can work in a different way. Some devices use floating balls to help advise vehicle owners of freeze points and may employ numbers and dots to help deliver the desired information. Discs, built-in magnification tools, readability in both Celsius and Fahrenheit and clear, plastic barrels can all make the use of an antifreeze tester as easy as possible. Features like tail length and bulb durability may also vary between brands. However, each brand of device can usually work in either hot or cold fluids and can check fluids directly in coolant overflow systems or radiators."
"The ideal antifreeze tester provides quick and accurate cooling and boiling point results. In addition, though, an antifreeze tester may be able to do other things like test for rust or sediment buildup or deposits. They may also give insight into the efficiency of the cooling liquid; for example, it can tell motorists if their vehicles are actually being overprotected by a solution of antifreeze that is too potent." www.wisegeek.com
Most antifreeze testers don't check anything other than freeze/boiling point temperatures so it is always advised to have your antifreeze tested by a professional to make sure it is not degraded. Your coolant system should also be drained and flushed at least once a year or every 60,000 miles to protect your vehicle from sludge that can build up in your engine cooling system.
Antifreeze tester's kind of look like a turkey baster.
You may be hearing a tweet, but it's not a bird.
Let's say you are driving down the road on a warm fall day with your windows rolled down. You are feeling the warm sunshine, smelling fresh dirt as farmers plow their fields, and hearing the constant tweet of birds. Now wait a minute, the tweeting you are hearing may not be from the birds. This noise could also be your vehicle giving you a warning that something is wrong. There are several different types of noises your vehicle can make, from booming to chirps to howls and squeaks. Sometimes it is hard to explain to your automotive technician the noise you are hearing as you drive down the road. It may be embarrassing sometimes but it works best if you duplicate the noise verbally to best help him determine what the noise is. Some common noises and their descriptions are listed below.
Boom: Rhythms sound like a drum roll or a distant thunder and may cause pressure on eardrum.
Chirp: High pitched rapidly repeating sound like chirping birds.
Hum: A continuous sound of varying frequencies like a wire humming in the wind.
Roar: A deep, long, prolonged sound like an animal, or wind and ocean waves.
Whistle: Sharp, shrill-like sound like wind passing through a small opening.
Some other things your service technician may ask you is if there is a vibration with the noise, when it started, how often you hear it, when it happens, your speed, and the road conditions. All these have an affect on the diagnoses of the noise. When you bring your can into TBS AUTOMOTIVE, we have a diagnostic worksheet we go though to help diagnose the cause of the problem.
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First, we would like to thank you for your patronage. You are greatly appreciated and we strive to improve and exceed all your expectations regarding your safety and the performance of your vehicles.
Being in the automotive repair industry is all about trust. If you don't trust your automotive technician to give you the right information about what is wrong with your vehicle, you can you trust? As a wife, daughter, niece and granddaughter of automotive technicians, I know how much is involved with choosing a technician who will do right by you. You are entrusting your safety and the integrity of your vehicles to someone you may never see outside of the facility and that is a lot of trust to place with one place. There are a lot of things that can influence the place of that trust. The condition/location of the facility, the quality of work, word of mouth, price, time and the list goes on. We are glad you have chose TBS AUTOMOTIVE as your trusted automotive repair facility and we will do everything possible to keep your trust with us
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T B S AUTOMOTIVE
1913 Edgington Ave Eldora, IA 50627
641-939-7288
Monday - Friday 7:30-5:30
Saturday 8:00-12:00
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The Barbers' Shop
1913 Edgington Ave.
Eldora, Iowa 50627
(641)939-7288
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