Coon Rapids Auto Repair

There are two air filters in your vehicle; an Engine Air Filter, and a Cabin Air Filter. While they may not seem as important as the fluids or electrical maintenance for your vehicle, they are key points of maintenance commonly overlooked. We here at Minnesota Automotive aim to keep you informed, so read on for a quick history & reasoning as to why you should change those car filters as much as your furnace! The Engine Air Filter, while seeming a no-brainer when it comes to the build of a vehicle, has not always been a staple in vehicle manufacturing. Now that's not to say it hasn't been implemented in production for over a century, but for the first few decades, it wasn't much of a thought. This is almost hard to imagine seeing as air flow is essential for your engine to run appropriately; and the cleaner the air, the longer that engine can run right. You see the Engine Air Filter protects from all types of small particles, including but not limited to: dirt and sand ... read more

Whew!! The Holiday season has come, done what it does and left. Now we are all adjusting back into our routines; looking for our own personal fluidity, in our lives. However it's not just us that want things to move smoothly, but also those ever needy vehicles we own, bringing us from place to place. Each fluid is essential to the system it's in, and even the levels sitting low can cause greater damage as time goes on. Below we have some info on two of those fluids, we might not think about all the time in the winter. GAS[FUEL] Often the fuel for the vehicle gets overlooked as only being useful to get it from "Point A" to " Point B". Truthfully that is the main function of this specific fluid; however, the level of gas in your tank does matter, more than just enough to get there. You see low fuel consistently in a vehicle could mean more strain on the fuel pump as it has to push itself harder to siphon the fuel from the tank into the pump. Additionally th ... read more