Last week, this blog focused on keeping your vehicle’s engine running cool this coming McHenry summer. That’s important. Ensuring that your vehicle’s cooling system is up to snuff, and the coolant will do its job, are essential to protecting your vehicle from the effects of summer heat. It will also help you avoid the expense and inconvenience that comes with getting stuck on the side of the

Now that the lawn is cut, the garden is planted and ready to start dazzling all your McHenry neighbors, it’s time to relax in your lawn furniture while dinner sizzles on the grill and you enjoy a tropical drink with a little umbrella. Memorial Day is made for this. Of course, you can relax without worry because you have prepared the coolant in your car, truck or SUV for the summer ahead, right?What?!

The track is carefully manicured as though the green of the 18th hole at McHenry Country Club. The pits are organized and ready for racers to pull in for a quick change of tires or repairs from a minor collision with a competitor. The drivers have carefully dressed in preparation for a possible crash. And then there are the cars – sleek, ground-hugging IndyCar rockets that make the 500 one of the

The late-model car in your McHenry driveway has come a long way. Most likely, it gets better gas mileage and performance than its predecessor from a decade or two ago. One change that has been coming is the idea that you could have a self-driving car out in that driveway. GM makes its Cruise Automation car with self-driving technology. Daimler Intelligent Drive is the Mercedes Benz entry into

Remember when you were young and caught the flu or a cold? It was mom who nursed you back to health, right? When you scraped a knee, it was mom who cleaned the wound, put some antiseptic on it, followed by a bandage and a kiss.How about all those years when mom cleaned your clothes and packed you off to school with a lunch she put together with care? Who cheered when you were in the school play, or

Are you a stick man or an auto fan? Are you a lady who would prefer to drive down Route 120 in McHenry manually shifting the transmission, or do you want the car to do all the work?If McHenry is representative of the nation as a whole, approximately 13% of cars sold leave the showroom with manual transmissions. That means 87% drive onto the road with transmissions that do most of the work in terms

According to the State of Illinois, the state animal is the ‘White Tail Deer.’ But, here in Wonder Lake, we know better. We know that the state animal is the road construction sign. Seen most often in the spring, summer and fall, the road construction sign is found out and about foraging for frustrated drivers on Illinois roads.You will usually spot the road construction sign near some of their

Some kids just love to play in the mud. They see a mud puddle and their eyes glow. They just can’t resist jumping in creating soul-satisfying splash. Then we have some ‘kids’ here in the McHenry area who never grow out of it. That latter group graduates from playing with Tonka toys in the mud to using bigger, and more expensive, toys in the mud. Those bigger toys are called “off-road vehicles.”With

It’s almost mid-April here in Johnsburg, IL. Even if the winter of ’22-’23 throws a fit or two before passing into the record books, at this point, we’ve got the worst of it licked. We could get two feet of snow but it won’t last long. Temperatures may fall but they’ll bounce back. But it’s time to think about the effects of winter on your steering, suspension and alignment.Winter is

Think of all the cars, trucks and SUVs out there you can hit with your vehicle when pulling out of your Richmond driveway should your brakes fail. It’s a target-rich environment. Of course, who wants to hit anything with your car, truck or SUV?Hitting things with your vehicle is the kind of thing most of us prefer to avoid. From Richmond to Timbuktu, accidents happen all the time. We all prefer they