Gilbert Auto Repair

We wrote a blog a few weeks back about the vehicle dashboard warning light and since then I came across a great site that explains what they all mean (there's a few that I didn't even know that they exited).  Click HERE to review them. You can also make a game out of it by answering what each of them are doing! And for those of you that have a warning light that just won’t go away just come over the shop and we'll let you know what's going. We'll plug our scanner and we'll get to the root of the problem. The nice thing about this is that newer cars save all the "bad codes" and we're able to retrieve them and a certified ASE technician can analyze them better than anyone else.  If it's usually pretty straigh ... read more

When driving around Gilbert, your vehicle engine needs clean air to burn the fuel – and it needs a lot. In fact, a typical vehicle needs about 216,000 gallons of air for every tank of gas. All that air passes through a filter that catches the dust and dirt. Eventually the filter gets completely full. Because the filter can only hold so much, dirt starts getting through. This dirty air passes through the mass airflow sensor, and starts to accumulate on the delicate sensor element. The mass air flow sensor measures how much air is getting into your engine. When the airflow reading is incorrect, your vehicle engine doesn't get the proper amount of fuel. It runs rough and doesn't perform as well as it should. Eventually, the sensor is so damaged it needs to be replaced – which is pricey. In fact you could buy a case or two of air filters for the cost of a sensor replacement. Of course, that dirty air keeps on going through to your vehicle engine where it ... read more