Apparently, April is National Car Care Month (incidentally, October is Fall Car Care Month). Online offers pertaining to this celebration include a suggestion that this is a perfect time to purchase a rebuilt engine. Here at Performance Unlimited, Ringwood, we sincerely hope you don’t need one of those. In fact, if you’ve done a good job keeping after your car, you almost assuredly don’t.

Other online auto parts establishments are offering everything from products to clean your car to seat covers, trailer hitches, lights struts and brakes. If you’re in need of these items now, or will be in the near future, you may very well want to take advantage of these offerings. But, even if you don’t, National Car Care Month is a good time to reflect on your vehicle’s condition.

National Car Care Month and Fall Car Care Month are set at specific times of year for particular reasons. In the case of the latter, it’s so that people will make sure their cars are ready to take them safely through the winter. In the case of the prior, the goal is to get cars back into shape after grueling winter driving experiences.

Yes, this past winter wasn’t as grueling as some in recent history. Still, the cold weather took a steeper toll on vehicles than most warm weather months. One of our goals is to ensure that our customers, people we like to call friends, have a safe and enjoyable driving experience. To that end, we do all we can to keep their vehicles in tip-top shape.

Whether you look at National Car Care Month as a marketing tool, which, to some degree, it is, or whether you look at it as a community service effort, the idea has merit if you take it to heart and consider the needs of your vehicle at your convenience.

Bringing your car in at your convenience is the alternative is to finding yourself sitting on the side of the road somewhere. Or, it’s the difference between taking care of a problem when it’s relatively small and less expensive and waiting for it to grow into something more significant and costly.

So, if you want to bring your car in, we’d be happy to hear from you. Even if you don’t, please, take a moment to consider your car’s needs before they interfere with yours.

For more information about Performance Unlimited, call 815-728-0343 or visit www.4performanceunlimited.com.