A conventional automatic in Knoxville deals with two different kinds of stress in the same week. Stop-and-go Kingston Pike traffic generates heat with little airflow to carry it off. A drive out toward the Smokies with a trailer adds sustained load on grades. Either...
Kingston Pike is one of the busiest commercial corridors in East Tennessee, and the stop-and-go pattern from Bearden out to West Town Mall is exactly the kind of driving that accelerates front tire wear. The front tires on most Nissans handle both steering and...
The Service Engine Soon light tends to come on at a bad time: in traffic on Kingston Pike, leaving the West Town Mall parking lot, or right before you head out on I-40. What it actually means is simpler than it sounds: the engine control module has stored a fault code...
Steering that’s suddenly heavier than usual on Kingston Pike, a whining noise that shows up on turns, or a warning light that appeared overnight each point to something specific in the power steering system. Whether it’s coming from the electric system or...
Knoxville summers are hard on a Nissan Leaf’s two batteries in different ways. The traction battery runs the motor and determines range. The 12V auxiliary battery runs everything else. Heat affects both, and neither gives much warning before it becomes a...
Nothing happening when you press the button in the West Town Mall parking lot is usually a battery problem, not a broken fob. Key fob batteries give some warning before they fail completely, and catching it early means a quick swap at home instead of holding the fob...
