Laura Bertolli

This is a great article about aiming your headlights.  I thought I'd pass it on to you. How to Align Your Headlights

Modern cars need little maintenance and most people are using the dealer.  If you want to save money and help out a local business, try an independent auto repair shop!  I like the recommendations below and wanted to share them with you.  CHECKBOOK recommends you do the following to help improve your auto repair results: Whenever possible, compare prices, especially for big repairs. CHECKBOOK found some shops charge more than three times as much as their nearby competitors for the same work. Deal with the shop in a business-like way, and be especially thorough in the first few years, while you are getting acquainted. Write down a detailed description of the car's symptoms, give a copy to the shop, and keep

When you depend on your vehicle for work, it becomes a tool, that when it is out of service, can really affect the success of your work.  I'm thinking about landscapers, construction workers, carpet cleaners, glass installers, delivery trucks, dog walkers, florists, plumbers, electricians, security companies and more.  When these vehicles go down, they need to be repaired as quickly as possible.  Here at Bertolli's, we specialize in work vehicles, doing a safe repair with a quick turnaround. Shops that are on insurance referral lists, have a lot of business because they have to take every job that is sent to them.  They take a lot longer to start repairs and the vehicle sits in the parking lot until they can get to your vehicle.  We are not on any insurance referral lists and choose to remain independent, carefully select the repair jobs we do, and use scheduling to get vehicles in and out in the shortest amount of time.  Bertolli's starts repairs right away and works on

Like the shoes on our feet, the tires and wheels on our cars protect us from direct contact with the ground. And like those shoes we wear day in and day out, tires and wheels can rub, wear unevenly, and eventually fail to do their jobs. That’s why tire rotations and wheel alignments are integral parts of vehicle maintenance; staying on top of these services means a car can reach its maximum level of performance and safety. But while the end result of rotations and alignments is the same, there are some important differences between the two procedures. Tire Rotation Tire rotations are necessary to ensure even wear on a vehicle’s tires. See, the act of driving throws a car’s weight around, leaving distinctive erosion patterns on the tires. Uneven tread can develop from incorrect wheel alignment or over- or under-inflation of the tires. Whether you have front-wheel, rear-wheel, or four-wheel drive makes a difference too. In order to combat the inevitable tread wear, you have to

Submitted by guest writer, Tyler Pendleton When you’re looking for a car, you want everything to be perfect. You want the right model, the right MPG, the right price most importantly, but what about the right color? Does a certain colored car help us in any way? On a slow moving street, some people text, and others look at the cars around them. When you see one that catches your eye, you like the car a little more. Or an advertisement on a cool looking car makes you pay more attention to it. A car's paint job is like a person's clothing, it classifies you in your own way. An orange and black car in the San Francisco Bay Area may show a Giants fan driving, or a flat black car could show importance on the inside. Many colors relate to different ideas in your brain. So when you’re getting the perfect car why do you choose the color you want?  It’s because your brain has its own theories on what colors “look good to you.” When you see something that triggers a good memory, yo

A unibody is a construction technique for cars, when the body is one whole piece instead of multiple parts making up the body. It is the main way cars are built today. It is good for most driving ways except for off-road due to the fact that since its all one piece it doesn’t move as well as separate pieces would. Trucks and Jeeps and other haulers would usually not use a unibody because of the limitations. A unibody is usually safer because of the crumple zones, which will minimize the impact force when in an accident. A unibody is lighter than a body on frame car, pickups and Jeeps, and is less expensive but it has some disadvantages too. A unibody would cost more money to repair and the durability is lessened in a unibody, making needs of repair higher. It is also harder to tow a unibody when totaled, making bills higher and the overall ride quality is worse, especially with bigger, heavier cars. In a body on frame car, if a part is an inch or sometimes less off, it will effect t