Ft. Collins Auto Repair

At All Tech, we emphasize quality. Not just talk about the necessity to provide quality, but to do something about it. There are several ways in which quality plays a role in car and truck repair. To illustrate, here is an example of a car recently brought to us. The Acura was experiencing a strange braking problem in that it would sometimes “grab” rather than slow smoothly, and at other times the pedal was felt to be “soft and mushy”. What we found is that someone, at a quick lube franchise we believe, had added motor oil to the brake master cylinder. This resulted in the contamination of the brake fluid, which although it is an oil, is a hydraulic oil and not a lubricating oil. I have only seen this happen a couple of times in the past 20 years, but it is a catastrophe when it occurs

We often receive calls from folks who are having a problem and want help in understanding what the problem is and how it can be corrected. This time of year it is often calls about air conditioning. The call goes something like this: “my AC is not blowing as cold as usual and I wonder how much it will cost to get the system recharged.” Now AC is not that simple of a system and when it does not blow cold it can be caused by a leak allowing the freon to escape from the system. Or, it could be caused by an electrical problem that results in the system not turning on properly. Or, it can be a mechanical problem such as a compressor failure that results in no cooling. Or, it can be &hellip

Some of our customers at All Tech are surprised to learn that there are actually two service schedules for their vehicles. One is the regular schedule and the other is the

When faced with a “no start” problem the first thing we ask is

Of all the parts on a car or truck, the ones most closely connected to the safety of the driver are, in my mind, the brakes. The braking system is what we rely on to not only stop the vehicle, but slow it down as well. The two basic types of brake systems are the pad and rotor, and the shoe and drum styles. The older of the two is the drum and shoe which employs a shoe which fits inside of a round drum and is pressed against the inside of the drum by a hydraulic component known as a wheel cylinder. The wheel cylinder is operated by the master cylinder inside the engine compartment which sends pressure by way of brake (hydraulic) fluid to the wheel cylinder pressing the shoe into the drum. The pad and rotor system is the newer of the two and consists of a set of pads which are pinched into both sides of a metal plate we call a rotor. The pinching is performed by a caliper in which the pads are mounted and which like the wheel cylinder is operated by hydraulic pressure from the master cy ... read more