Engine Air Filter Replacement

When your experienced Kerry's Car Care service specialist technician changes your oil, he will also inspect your air filter. You shouldn’t need a new filter at every oil change, but you will need to change it regularly. Heed your technician’s auto advice if they tell you to change your filter. It’s not expensive, and it makes a big difference to your truck.

An air filter does what its name implies: it filters stuff out of the air. Air is drawn into your engine through the filter because your engine needs air to burn fuel. If the filter weren’t there, a lot of dust and debris would come into the truck engine with the air. That dust and debris would get hot, burn, and produce all kinds of ash and gumminess that would eventually clog up your engine.

But air filters themselves get clogged up with all the junk they clean out of the Phoenix air. This doesn’t allow the junk into the truck engine, but it does block up the airflow. A blocked airflow will reduce engine efficiency, learn more.

Wheel Alignment

One of the most important parts of preventive maintenance for your vehicle is keeping the wheels in alignment. Poor alignment causes your tires to wear unevenly, which can significantly reduce their lifespan. This means you will have to replace them more often, which can be costly in Glendale.

It can even damage your suspension system, which is a significant repair. But even more importantly, uneven tread wear can lead to blowouts on the road, a dangerous and potentially deadly safety risk for Glendale drivers and their passengers.

It may not take an accident or bad driving habits to “knock” your tires out of alignment. Tires can go out of alignment with just everyday Arizona driving. Glendale road hazards, pot holes, uneven or gravel roads, even the bumps and bounces of normal Phoenix freeways and surface streets can gradually put your truck tires out of alignment.

So it’s good auto advice to have your truck's alignment inspected periodically. Your vehicle’s owner’s manual will have recommendations on how often you should get an alignment check: usually every year or two. But if you think your truck tires might be out of alignment, you should take your truck into Kerry's Car Care now.

Considering an Alternative Fuel Vehicle In Phoenix?

There is a clear and vocal demand in Glendale and nationally for a REDUCTION IN AIR POLLUTION and our dependence on fossil fuels. This is what is driving the Arizona market for ALTERNATIVE FUEL VEHICLES. There are a number of these vehicles on Phoenix area roads today, and many more being developed. Yet each of these vehicles has its own advantages and disadvantages, learn more.

$30 Off Repairs!

$30 OFF Any Repair or Maintenance Service of $250 or More. One Special per visit. Not valid with other offer or special. Special must be presented in advance. Some limitations may apply.

Nissan Repair

Your Nissan deserves to receive first-class repair service. Luckily, here at KERRY'S CAR CARE, that is exactly what we offer every Nissan and Nissan owner. We began are proud to service the complete Nissan line, the Maxima, Altima, Versa, Sentra, Cube, Leaf, Roadster, Juke, Pathfinder, Murano, Rogue, Xterra, Armada, and Quest. It is our goal to provide our customers with the service and experience they deserve while offering them competitive prices. We back all of our repairs with our warranty and strive to surpass customer expectations.

$50 Off Repairs!

Visit our website to take advantage of our $50 OFF Any Repair or Maintenance Service of $750 or More! *One Special per visit. Not valid with other offer or special. Special must be presented in advance. Some limitations may apply. Expires 11/13/2014

Check Engine Light Diagnosis

Hello Glendale car owners. Have you ever had your check engine light come on? Did you panic? Or just scowl and ignore it? What should you do? Pull to the side of the road and call a tow truck? Or just keep driving? What does that little light really mean for Glendale car owners? Check Engine Light Diagnosis At Kerry's Car Care

FREE Air Conditioning Inspection

• Test & record vent temperature
• Inspect components for visible leaks
• Gauge & record Freon pressures
• Inspect hose fittings & compressor
• Run performance test

*Any additional parts and/or labor as well as freon extra. Cannot combine with any other offers. For a limited time only

Toyota Repair

KERRY'S CAR CARE is no stranger to repairing or providing maintenance for Toyota. From the Toyota Camry, Tacoma, RAV4, and Sequoia to the Toyota Prius and Hybrid line, we work on every Toyota vehicle. We proudly service the Glendale, Arizona community and offer top-notch customer service to each person who walks through our doors. We take great pride in our work and back all of our repairs with our warranty. If your Toyota is in need of maintenance or repairs, we encourage you to bring it in before too long. We see often, vehicles that need part replacements or major and costly work down because its owner waited too long to have it serviced.

E-85 gasoline

E-85 gasoline has been developed to fight air pollution and reduce oil consumption. E-85 fuel is a mix of 85% ethanol, a grain-base alcohol, and 15% gasoline. So-called Flex-Fuel vehicles are designed to use either normal gasoline or E-85 gas. The result is lower harmful exhaust emissions to our local Phoenix community.

All gas engines can run with up to 10% ethanol and in fact a lot of gasoline sold in the Glendale Arizona area does contain some ethanol. The problem comes when well meaning people without Flex Fuel certified vehicles put E-85 into the tank.

Odometer Rollback On Your Glendale Arizona Auto

How do you know if an odometer is telling the truth? Well, back in ’86, Congress passed the Truth-in-Mileage Act to protect Arizona consumers against mileage fraud. It says a Arizona seller must certify the mileage reported is the Actual Mileage. To have your odometer checked in Glendale Arizona, stop by Kerry’s Car Care: Kerry’s

Welcome to Kerry’s Car Care!

We’ve worked hard since 1993 to be Glendale, Arizona’s neighborhood auto repair and service center! Kerry’s Car Care is staffed with ASE certified, trained automotive repair technicians. They are well versed in the latest computerized equipment in our shop to repair your car. We Fix Everything, and we offer the following to make sure you have the best customer experience possible:



Kerry’s Car Care : Auto Repair Shop in Glendale, Arizona
Amazing Store Hours

We are here to serve you Mon – Sat from 7am to 7pm. Now that’s amazing!
Instant Credit

We offer a six months interest free same as cash financing program. If you need it, we have it!
Same Day Service

That’s right! On most jobs we’ll have your car back the same day. Now that’s service!
Convenient Customer Shuttle

If you need to be picked up or dropped off at your home or office, call us – we will make it happen! Plus we offer free pickup and delivery. Now that’s convenient!

The verdict: When your truck engine air filter needs to be replaced; it needs to be replaced. How often depends entirely on how dirty the air is where you drive in Phoenix. A simple visual inspection at Kerry’s Car Care will tell you when you need a new engine air filter.
When you look at the air filter on your furnace at home and see it’s all clogged up with dust and dirt, you don’t hesitate to replace it. When your Kerry’s Car Care technician brings out your nasty engine air filter, you now know why you should go ahead and change it out.

In fact, replacing a dirty air filter at Kerry’s Car Care can improve your fuel economy in Phoenix by up to ten percent. At today’s fuel prices in Phoenix, you should be able to pay for a new air filter before your next oil change.

You’ve seen the pictures of the crowds in Asia wearing face masks. They want some kind of filter to keep unwanted pollution and germs out of their lungs. Well, your truck also works better when its internals are clean. When your truck air filter’s dirty, it simply can’t trap any more dirt, so the dirt just passes through into your air intake system. From there it can clog your fuel injectors and even get into the engine itself. And burning dust and pollen in your truck engine does you no good.
So, we’re talking potential damage for Phoenix drivers. But another big thing is wasted fuel. Your truck engine management computer tries to mix the correct amount of air in with the fuel. If the filter’s clogged, there isn’t enough air for the optimal fuel to air mix and that really messes with fuel efficiency.

Your truck engine really needs clean air to operate efficiently. Let’s go egghead for a minute. For every gallon of gas we burn driving around Phoenix, twenty pounds of carbon dioxide comes out the tailpipe. Question: how can a gallon of gas that weighs a little over six pounds produce twenty pounds of carbon dioxide?
The answer is that the carbon comes from the gasoline, but the oxygen comes from the air. You see, it takes about twelve thousand gallons of air to burn a gallon of gas in your engine. Clearly, your truck needs a lot of air to keep going in Phoenix. A lot of clean air is better.

Of course if you do a lot of driving in dusty or polluted conditions, you’ll need to change your cabin air filter more often.

As we said, many people don’t realize they have a cabin air filter and go to their shop complaining about a funky smell in the ventilation system. It turned out to be a cabin air filter that was long overdue for replacement – really dirty and starting to smell. A quick replacement and they were on their way and smelling fine.
People who are allergy sensitive can really benefit from a cabin air filter, as it keeps allergens to a minimum. If you’re one of them, you’ll want to stay on top of your filter replacement schedule.

So your cabin air filer can clean out dust, pollution, pollen and spores, to keep the air in your car nice and clean. And just like your furnace filter, they need to be replaced when they get dirty. Check your owner’s manual, but they typically need to be replaced at around twelve to fifteen thousand miles.
The filter is usually either under the hood or under the dashboard. Some are a little tricky to get to, so you’ll want to have your Glendale Arizona service center, Kerry’s Car Care, take care of replacing them.

Bad air quality while you’re driving around Phoenix is nothing to sneeze at. But seriously, more and more vehicles these days come equipped with a cabin air filter. Since they’re fairly new on the scene, a lot of folks don’t know about them yet.
These filters clean the air in the passenger compartment, or cabin, of your car or truck. They do the same job as the furnace filter you have at home. They can filter out particles as small as thee microns. By contrast, a grain of sand is about 200 microns.