Vehicle Tune-Ups at Northuis Auto Repair

The Road to Vehicle Health: The Importance of Vehicle Tune-Ups

Vehicle tune-up services are about preventive maintenance for all your vehicle systems. With so many moving parts in the average vehicle, the potential for inevitable wear and tear to cause an issue is high. Ensuring optimal vehicle and engine performance at all stages of your vehicle's life cycle means following a regular maintenance schedule, and here at Northuis Auto Repair, we deliver the tune-ups your vehicle deserves. 

Just consider how necessary standard automotive service actually is. Your vehicle has many critical components that, if they fail, can stop it from running efficiently — or at all! These include things like the positive crankcase ventilation (PCV) valve, the spark plugs, fuel filters, and a lot more. These components don’t just need regular repair but also just a simple cleaning to keep crud and debris from building up all over them. Our technician team can keep you on a standardized service schedule to help make sure that never happens. 

What’s Included in a Standard Vehicle Tune-Up Service 

Efficient vehicle handling and smooth operation demands a regular tune-up schedule with Northuis Auto Repair’s team of expert mechanics. Our comprehensive inspection and maintenance procedures treat your vehicle as a cohesive whole. We don’t just inspect each component in isolation but look at how each engine system interrelates with the others for peak performance. We’ll clean, maintain, and repair your components and perform brake tests in accordance with the manufacturer’s recommendations to ensure your vehicle's health and longevity. 

Spark Plugs

The engine wouldn’t start without spark plugs. A routine spark plug tune-up can be just the thing you need to keep your engine from misfiring or stalling when you need it most.

Oil Changes

Engine oil doesn’t always corrode at the same rate. Your driving style, as well as the weather you use your vehicle in, can affect oil levels and purity as time goes by. We’ll make sure your engine oil levels stay right where they need to be. 

Replacing Filters

The vehicle’s filtering system is necessary for keeping contaminants out of the engine. Replacing the air filter, oil filter, and fuel filter periodically is necessary to maintain a clean engine.

Belts and Hoses

Vehicle engine systems use a web of belts and hoses to connect one component to the next. Each of these is prone to cracks or loose connections, which can hurt performance as the mile count grows. 

Inspection and Precaution

Vehicle tune-ups include complete inspections of critical components, such as the brake system, including the brake pads and rotors, battery, and engine fluid. We do this for your safety, and it also helps keep the long-term costs of vehicle ownership down.

Fluids

Many vehicle owners don’t know all the vital fluids coursing through their engines, but they’re all very necessary. Engine coolant, brake fluid, transmission fluid, power steering fluid, motor oil — all these and more need regular topping up as part of your vehicle’s maintenance schedule.

Signs That Your Vehicle Needs Maintenance

We know life has a way of getting ahead of you, but none of us can afford to let vehicle maintenance slide. If you rely on your vehicle to get you where you need to go, you owe it to yourself to catch lingering problems before they escalate into something bigger. Getting yourself on Northuis Auto Repair’s standard service schedule can help keep those concerns to a minimum. 

Once your vehicle goes beyond the 25,000-mile mark, scheduling a tune-up for its engine components becomes a necessity. However, there are a lot of little signs that you can watch out for that show the vehicle requires some work. They range from minor to serious, but all of them deserve an inspection from one of Northuis Auto Repair’s technicians. These include things like: 

• Decreased fuel efficiency levels
• A noticeable reduction in engine power
• Strange or rough sounds while the engine is running, up to and including feeling the engine stall while the vehicle remains stationary
• Knocking sounds during acceleration
• Seeing the check engine or service engine soon lights activate upon switching the vehicle on

Any of these indicate something of concern for Northuis Auto Repair’s team to look at. If you experience them, don’t hesitate to schedule a service call with us. 

Northuis Auto Repair Provides Expert Vehicle Tune-Ups in Jenison, MI

Ever since 2014, we’ve been proudly delivering first-class automotive services to our friends and neighbors here in Jenison, MI. If you have any concerns about your vehicle or it’s just been a while since your last tune-up, bring your vehicle in to receive the vehicle diagnostics and preventive maintenance it deserves. Just call (616) 930-7589 to schedule an appointment as soon as you can.