Category Archives: Car Issues

Starting a Car with a Dead Battery

Starting a Car with a Dead Battery

Drained or dead batteries are common predicaments that we, the towing experts here at Towing Chicago, provide convenient, direct to location solutions for. Car engines need working batteries with electrical charges to help start, and there’s many reasons car batteries stop working. In this blog entry, the vehicle rescue and battery jump starting expert team here at Towing Chicago will detail the process of starting a car with a drained battery.

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Common Reasons that your Car Won’t Start

Common Reasons that your Car Won't Start

What do you do when you turn your keys in your vehicle’s ignition but it just won’t start? This is a puzzling and frustrating situation indeed that leads to security and safety risks for both your vehicle, and you yourself. The cause of your car’s inability to start can range based on many mechanical, or even, in newer cars, software based factors. Here’s a guide to the reasons your car may not start correctly, as prepared by the fully licensed and experienced towing experts at Towing Chicago.

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Avoiding a Summer Automotive Breakdown

Avoiding a Summer Automotive Breakdown

During the Summer months, many cars break down due to various issues caused by the extreme heat of the weather. While the team here at Towing Chicago stands ready to provide high quality, convenient towing services whenever you need it, we like our customers to stay as informed and safe as possible – which is why our team has prepared this brief guide to some simple and essential tactics you can implement to avoid experiencing an automotive breakdown.

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How to Prevent the Need for Roadside Assistance

How to Prevent the Need for Roadside Assistance

While Towing Chicago is always happy to provide reliable, professional, and safe roadside assistance services to all of our valued clients when needed, we also understand that most people would prefer not to have to receive roadside assistance in the first place. In this blog entry, we are going  to detail some ways that you can avoid having to receive ANY roadside assistance, staying safe on the road all the while.

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Avoiding breakdowns in classic cars

Avoiding breakdowns in classic cars

There’s many aesthetic and lifestyle benefits to driving a classic car – however, these older car models run with the risk of different difficult breakdowns. It’s essential that you only drive a car when prepared for the chances of a breakdown – and classic cars require a different set of preparation tactics as compared to newer cars. Here’s a guide to preventing classic car breakdowns, as prepared by the towing experts here at Towing Chicago.

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Increase the Longevity of your Vehicles

Increase the Longevity of your Vehicles

Were you aware that the majority of insurance companies estimate that vehicles have about 10 years of useful life before they need to get scrapped? While there’s many older vehicles that don’t maintain a practical gas economy and a environmentally efficient fuel standard, there’s many others that will remain efficient for years to come. Many people at the Environmental Transport Association even recommend keeping a somewhat older vehicle, that it’s somewhat cleaner to hang on to it rather than buy a new one altogether.

If you follow a maintenance schedule, you can double your car’s life and spend much less time at the repair shop or gas station. There’s many ways to help minimize the natural degradation of your vehicle’s quality – here’s some of the best tips, as prepared by the experts here at Towing Chicago:

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Extending Car Battery Life

Extending Car Battery Life

When most people think about car maintenance, they think about oil changes, engines, and fixing the external appearance of their vehicle – and of course, tire inflation. However, many people who seem to think they are tackling all the necessary safety aspects of automotive maintenance are actually ignoring a very important and vital aspect of car maintenance – the car’s battery. Only by regularly maintaining your car battery can you guarantee that you will maximize its longevity. Here’s a guide from the towing experts here at Towing Chicago on some tips that you can follow to maximize the life of your car battery.

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Difference between horsepower and Torque

Difference between horsepower and Torque

Many professional drivers, or those who simply are driving aficionados, like to compare and contrast the horsepower and torque of a vehicle. This ratio affects driving – which in turn, affects the likelihood of potential breakdowns based on the amount of strain a vehicle is put under versus its natural capabilities. In this blog post, the towing experts at Towing Chicago will detail the differences between torque and horsepower in cars and trucks.

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