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What Customers Expect From Preventative Maintenance in 2022
This webinar is part of a free two-part series will help you understand customers' new expectations regarding preventative maintenance, as well as the technical changes that impact vehicles' maintenance schedules.
You may think you know your customers, but are their purchasing decisions changing? Customers today are being influenced by inflation, new vehicle shortages and the extreme pricing of used vehicles. These current trends are impacting how customers service and maintain their daily drivers. These shifts in today's automotive landscape are changing what customers want from their current vehicle and your service facility.
In this 45-minute webinar, the experts from Valvoline will address the latest research on:
Speakers Brad Stuck, Brand Manager - Valvoline Professional Series, Valvoline Inc. Andrew Markel, Director of Technical Content, ShopOwner
Underhood Service targets repair shops that derive 50 percent or more of their revenue from the service and repair of under-the-hood systems. The expanding amount of knowledge and capital needed to keep up with technological advances has led these shop owners to concentrate on underhood systems, while also offering preventive maintenance services on most major vehicle systems. By subscribing, you’ll receive the ShopOwner digital edition magazine (12 times/year) featuring articles from Underhood Service and the Underhood Service eNewsletter (twice weekly). Access to digital editions, contests, news, and more are ready for you today!
Underhood Service targets repair shops that derive 50 percent or more of their revenue from the service and repair of under-the-hood systems. The expanding amount of knowledge and capital needed to keep up with technological advances has led these shop owners to concentrate on underhood systems, while also offering preventive maintenance services on most major vehicle systems. By subscribing, you’ll receive the ShopOwner digital edition magazine (12 times/year) featuring articles from Underhood Service and the Underhood Service eNewsletter (twice weekly). Access to digital editions, contests, news, and more are ready for you today!
ByUnderhood Service Staff Writers on Jun 29, 2022
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It’s important to remember to use a high-quality filter that’s made specifically for the application. Sponsored by FRAM.
Leave that air cleaner alone! What am I talking about? I’m referring to the old, round air cleaners used on carbureted vehicles.
Many people think they’re an eyesore compared to a shiny new chrome one, but there’s a lot more to them than meets the eye. The inside of the air cleaner is designed to smoothly direct the air flow up to the top while reducing turbulence, so the air can be smoothly drawn down through the carburetor.
The majority of these also had a snorkel and in some cases two, that picked up cool air from the sides of the engine compartment.
The snorkel was also designed to increase the velocity of the air as it entered the air cleaner.
In addition, the snorkel design incorporated a pickup for warm air to be drawn from around the exhaust manifolds up into the air cleaner for improved cold weather driveability.
There was also a filtered pickup for fresh air into the crankcase as part of the PCV system, so these were important for emissions too.
When you’re servicing an old vehicle that has one of these air cleaners, it’s important to use a high-quality filter that’s made specifically for the application. You can’t see it when the lid is on, but the filter is designed to seal on the top and bottom so that all air flows through it.
If a filter is installed that is even a little bit too short, unfiltered air will be drawn over the top of the filter into the engine. Not only should you avoid this, but vehicles with this type of air cleaner are often collector vehicles, or at minimum vehicles that sit over the winter.
Even in newer homes and garages, small rodents can be present and it’s best not to give them anyplace inviting to build a nest, especially in a carburetor.
It might be an oldie, but to the owner, it’s a goodie, so give it the best filter you can.
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