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Some vehicles have fantastic paint jobs, but sooner or later you get a scratch in the parking lot, or bugs and gravel hitting your paint job at high speed will take a toll on the looks of your vehicle. You know that your vehicle's paint job needs to be fixed before rust sets in and causes serious damage; it's important to understand what your options are if you have scratches.

Depending on what kind of budget you have available when something happens to your car’s paint job, you'll have a few opportunities to consider. 

The alternator in your vehicle is responsible for charging your battery. At Audi Pensacola, we want you to understand the signs to look for when your alternator is beginning to fail. If you don't get your car repaired and the alternator is failing, you can end up without power unexpectedly.

If your alternator isn't working properly, your battery can't charge effectively while you are driving down the road. You may notice that your battery dies easily or that your headlights aren't as bright as usual.  

Today we discuss the right way to jump-start a vehicle that has a dead battery. In order to jump-start the car, you'll need to get the two vehicles together as close as you safely can so the engines are almost touching. Turn off the car, then be certain both of the vehicles are in park before opening the hoods.

Locate the negative and positive terminals of each battery; the positive should be slightly wider. The jumper cables will be coded black for negative and red for positive. 

If you have ever had one of our Audi service technicians in Pensacola replace your motor oil, you may have wondered what those letters and numbers on the motor oil bottle mean. They represent the level of viscosity, or how much the motor oil can resist flow.

A low viscosity means the oil is thinner, so it will still flow nicely when temperatures are cold. High viscosity is necessary under hot conditions, meaning the oil has the capacity to flow when thin but not too thin to continue to protect and lubricate the engine parts. 

Your tires get you where you want to go. If you don’t take care of your tires, they can leave you stranded on the side of the road. Let the Audi Pensacola auto service professionals help you prepare for road trips of any length.

Your tire pressure should be monitored on a regular basis. Test the tire pressure with a gauge. You can identify what the ideal tire pressure is by looking at the inside of the driver’s side door panel. You may need to increase or decrease the PSI based on the gauge reading. 

Extreme temperatures can affect your vehicle’s battery and create a slow start or problems with keeping the engine running. There are some measures you can take to test the battery if you suspect it may not be charging at full capacity. Check the fluid level in the cells prior to running a voltage test.

If you have a voltmeter, the volts should measure 12.6 or higher when the battery is charged. Measured while the engine’s running, they should 13.7 and 14.7. When you don’t have a voltmeter handy, you can still get a good…

At Audi Pensacola, we're enthusiastic about the cars we drive. Like you, we also want to enjoy peace of mind when we get behind the wheel that we'll experience a safe and pleasurable drive. But we also know that any type of mechanical equipment experiences glitches from time to time, and that's why we encourage all of our customers to come in for regular inspections of their belt and hose performance.

When you entrust the care of your vehicle's hoses and belts to the service department at our Audi service department, you can have peace of…

If you have ever heard someone saying that you need to get your air filters cleaned, you might think you can wait until you have more money. The bottom line is that if you don't get them cleaned, you can head to the auto shop too late and have real damage done to the engine.

The engine needs to have air that is free of dirt and pollutants in order to operate correctly. If you starve that engine of clean air, there are going to be lots of problems down the road. 

All fifty states have adopted move over laws on their roadways, and that includes us here in Pensacola, FL. Every driver needs to slow down and safely move to the other lane when there is a person on the side of the road.

Obeying these laws creates a safety zone between the person or people on the roadside and moving traffic. If it is a one lane road or the driver cannot safely move to the other lane, then one should move over to the left as far as safely possible and slow the vehicle down. 

Using plain water can be frustrating when washing the windshield while driving. With the wide selection of windshield wiper fluids that are on the market today, infused with a material in it that acts as an anti-freezing agent, the appropriate washer fluid is a more suitable liquid to use.

We here at Audi Pensacola would like to let all of our customers in the greater Pensacola, FL area to know that it is a good idea to only use windshield wiper fluid in your vehicle's windshield wiper fluid system.