How do St. Peter drivers know if an odometer is telling the truth?

Well, back in ’86, Congress passed the Truth-in-Mileage Act to protect MN consumers against mileage fraud. It says a MN seller must certify the mileage reported is the actual mileage.

To have your odometer checked in St. Peter, MN, stop by Autotronics of St. Peter:

Autotronics of St. Peter
111 Jefferson Avenue
St. Peter, MN 56082

If it isn’t, the seller must say why; for example, maybe the odometer is past its mechanical limits. Some older odometers only go to 99,999 and then start over at 0. Or, the odometer has been tampered with, broken or replaced.

If the seller tells you the mileage isn’t accurate, there’s not much chance of putting a good number to it. And there’s the unscrupulous seller who claims the reading is true, but it isn’t. What can St. Peter vehicle owners do?

You can go to www.CarFax.com, where, for a small fee, they’ll give you a comprehensive vehicle history search on your vehicle, showing local St. Peter, MN, ownership history, accident reports, total-loss events, manufacturer buybacks, Lemon reports and warranty status.

You can get a mileage history by checking with the local MN DMV (or wherever you happen to be) and other verified sources looking for inconsistencies in the mileage reported when the car was bought and sold. If there are signs of odometer rollback, now you’ll know.

If so, proceed with caution. Or, negotiate a lower price. Or just walk away. There’s always another vehicle.

Autotronics of St. Peter
111 Jefferson Avenue
St. Peter, MN 56082
507.934.9290
http://autotronicsstpeter.com

Many St. Peter drivers probably don’t think of their shock absorbers as an important safety system; but that’s just what shocks and struts are. They’re all about ride control – keeping your vehicle tires in contact with the road and managing body motion.

Every time you hit a bump or pothole on a St. Peter road, your tire wants to bounce up. The bigger the bump, the higher the bounce. Your shocks or struts push down on the tire to maintain the traction you need to start, stop and turn.

If you’ve ever ridden in a vehicle with bad shocks, you know how it wallows on corners. The front end dives when you hit the brakes and the rear end squats when you accelerate. It’s not only uncomfortable, it is difficult to handle.

You may have heard vehicles described as having “flat cornering.” That means that when you take a corner, the body doesn’t roll very much. When shocks start to get worn, your vehicle will roll more on corners. The weight of your vehicle’s body shifts and tosses your vehicle to the outside of the turn, making it harder to control.

With good shocks, you can turn corners with confidence. When the shocks are bad, the body rolls too much and you need to slow down to maintain the same level of control. When you have to combine brake dive with body roll, you can quickly end up with an unsafe handling situation.

Shocks can break or start to leak, but they usually just wear out. After all, your vehicle shocks will move up and down over 75 million times in 50,000 miles/80,000 km. If you replace shocks at Autotronics of St. Peter in St. Peter, it will restore your vehicle’s original ride control and quality. You can even upgrade shocks and struts if you want better handling or towing capacity on MN roads.

Shocks are an important safety system: don’t wait until they are completely shot, perhaps risking your safety or damaging other suspension components. At Autotronics of St. Peter we can help you with quality shocks and struts as advised in your owner’s manual, usually at around 50,000 miles/80,000 km, for a comfortable, safe handling ride in St. Peter.

Give us a call.

Autotronics of St. Peter
111 Jefferson Avenue
St. Peter, MN 56082
507.934.9290
http://autotronicsstpeter.com