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Running on Low Battery?

Life can drain you sometimes. You work hard and play hard. From dropping the kids at school, to working all day, to dinner with friends, and back home, where you go, your car goes too. You charge your phone in the car, plug in your GPS, and the kids watch a movie in the backseat. […]

How to Replace a Flat Tire in 10 Steps

We’ve all been there, you are driving in the Cleveland rain, when you hear a loud thump. You hear a flapping noise coming from your tire and feel the steering wheel pull to the left or the right. You pull over and see that what you’ve feared has happened – your tire is flat. No […]

3 Tell-Tale Signs Your Brakes Need Checked

Stop, Look, and Listen: 3 Tell-Tale Signs That Your Brakes Need to Be Checked Did you know that depending on your speed, it can take your car up to 100 yards to come to a complete stop? And that’s assuming that your brakes and tires are in excellent working condition. Even if you don’t know […]

Manager Spotlight: Dave George

Dave George is a fixture with Rad Air. But even after 19 years, he’s still learning every day! 19 years ago, Dave George began working as the manager of the Rad Air location in Garfield, and he’s been a neighborhood car care expert ever since. Many things have changed with vehicles over the years, but […]

How Do I Know if I Need a New Car Battery?

Raise your hand if your car has 100,000 miles. Keep it raised if you have 200,000 miles. For those of us old enough to remember, no commercial was more daunting or ominous than a car battery commercial. The setting was always a frigid abandoned parking lot (presumably in Cleveland, although they never said that officially) […]

This Odometer Says 539,600 Miles, and It’s Not Photoshopped!

Raise your hand if your car has 100,000 miles. Keep it raised if you have 200,000 miles. Keep it up for 300,000 miles. By this point, most of you have lowered your hands, and if we were sitting in the same room, you’d be looking around to see who’s left. If you had all of Manager […]

How to Prevent Rust

There are few things more disappointing than seeing that first spot of rust on your beloved vehicle. Your car was a large investment, and you tried to keep it nice for as long as you could. Unfortunately, the Northeast Ohio winters that brought the icy (and then brine/salt-covered) roads got the best of your vehicle. […]

What Is Antifreeze?

It’s freezing in Cleveland in the winter. It’s not comfortable for you and it’s not comfortable for your car, truck or any vehicle if you don’t take care of it properly. Part of the proper care and maintenance of your vehicle for winter (and all of the other seasons) is ensuring that your car has the […]

Is It Time for Me to Get a Car Alignment?

Cleveland’s potholes are notorious, so much so that we wrote about them around Halloween and described them as pothole monsters. They get hungrier and hungrier in the wintertime and the salt we use to make roads safer to traverse eats through the concrete and makes holes big enough to swallow your car. So how do […]

4 Resolutions to Help You Save Gas Money in 2019

New year, new you, right? It’s that time again. Yes, the time where millions of Americans will watch the ball drop and then scramble to write down New Year’s resolutions that will surely be broken by February. In fact, 80% of all New Year’s resolutions will be broken by February (Business Insider). We’re good at […]

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