Fuel System

All modern TIGARD vehicles come with fuel injection systems, so it’s a topic TIGARD drivers need to know something about. The mighty fuel injector is a valve that delivers the gas or diesel fuel to the right place, in the right amount at the right time—to be mixed with air and burned in the engine.…

Your vehicle requires plenty of clean fuel to run. If your fuel contains contaminants, your fuel injectors will eventually become clogged up. When this happens, your vehicle engine may not get the proper amount of fuel at the correct pressure to run at peak performance. This hurts performance as you drive around the TIGARD area.…

Have you ever gone to listen to an orchestra? The musicians take the stage early and tune their instruments. Each individual instrument must be in tune, but the critical thing is for the entire orchestra to be in tune with each other. That’s why they tune up together. Now this is no surprise; I’m going…

  One topic that hits the news in OR on a regular basis is the price of gas. The answer for some OR drivers is to buy a vehicle that gets better fuel economy. For those of us in TIGARD who don’t want to add a car payment to our monthly expenses, we need to…

The price of gas in OR has got people in TIGARD talking. It seems that TIGARD folks who need a bigger vehicle to carry family and gear, or provide four wheel drive, are hit especially hard. That is why we thought it would be good to review some things that anyone can do to improve fuel…

There’s not much we can do about the price of gas in TIGARD, OR, but we do quite a bit about how much we use as we’re driving on our TIGARD streets. Our driving habits can dramatically affect our fuel economy. The first thing we can do is watch the ‘go-pedal.’ Hard acceleration just sucks…