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Maintaining Present Vehicle May Make Financial Sense

Piggy Bank

Although you may want to get rid of your present vehicle in favour of a new car, taking better care of your current set of [...]

Planning 2012 Vehicle Care

If you don’t control your money, your money will control you. Today let’s focus on getting control over the cost of auto repair and maintenance. [...]

Save Money on Gas and Stop Buying Tires Sooner

Here’s How! Aligned wheels reduce rolling resistance. Rolling resistance increase fuel consumption and tread life. This is why car owners from all over the country [...]

Sil’s Summer Travel Tip

Keep an Emergency Kit inside your car Things you might consider carrying include the following: A flashlight, flares and a first-aid kit Jumper cables Extra [...]

Watch That Engine Oil.

 For the 2011 model year, GM will introduce dexos1™ certified engine oil as a factory fill and service fill for many engines. The reason for [...]

New drive belt designs are here.

My technicians and I over the last staff meeting were talking about new belts and a special tool used to measure the wear on new [...]

Preserve Your Vehicle’s Resale Value

Preserve Your Vehicle’s Resale Value by Detailing Your Car! Just like preventive maintenance on brake, engine, transmission, and other systems, maintaining the interior and exterior [...]

6 service items that should never be skipped

Getting Good Auto Service Tips.

Getting The Most From Your Service Provider Make an appointment whenever possible – delays are less likey if your service provider can schedule his or [...]

Vehicle Value Website

Over the weekend I was reading my local paper and came across an article written about Canadian Black Book values for your vehicle. the website was [...]

Winter and Freezing Wiper Blades

STOP and Think….  Before you flick those wipers on, make sure your wiper blades are not frozen to the windshield.   If they are, you may damage [...]

The Real Cost of Car Ownership

The sticker price is only the starting point. Do you know what you really pay for your vehicle?? Your biggest vehicle expense? Your No. 1 [...]

Should I keep it or replace it?

It has been shown time and time again that a well maintained vehicle is far less expensive than a new car purchase. Consumer report magazine [...]

FREE Car Care Clinic / Child Seat Safety

All our clients, Facebook fans and all others are invited to a No Charge vehicle maintenance / education clinic, along with training on child seat [...]

All Tires Are Not The Same!

Tires are not the same anymore! So you find out you need new tires for that car of yours. No big deal, last car you [...]

Sil’s Auto and Ontario Racquet Club Working To Care for You!

 I started thinking some time ago that we spend so much time on maintaining the health, longevity and care of a person’s vehicle, why don’t [...]

You Get What You Pay For

Recently, the kitchen tap at home starting leaking. Clearly all that dripping water was a waste, and not at all environmentally friendly. As I’m a [...]

Are you and your car ready for winter driving?

Be sure to be safe this winter season! Bring your car or truck in to Sil’s Auto Centre and take advantage of our Winter Maintenance [...]

Winter Tires

Look for the peaked mountain with snowflake symbol when you purchase your winter tires. Tires marked with this symbol meet specific snow traction performance requirements [...]