Greenwood Village Auto Repair

by Larry Brown, Davis Repair   Here at Davis Repair, where our family takes care of your family’s cars, we’re all into doing everything we can to save the planet.   It’s the last thing we think about as we drift off to sleep at night, and it’s the first thing we think about when we get out of bed each morning.   Well, okay… maybe saving the planet is NOT our Number One primary concern.  Maybe it’s only Number Two or Three.  But saving money is right up there on the top of our list, too.   Around our shop, we like money almost as much as we enjoy busted knuckles and greasy hands.  Or those car manufacturers (you know who you are!) which crank out cars destined to spend more time in our shop than they spend on the road.   (LOVE those!)   Saving green by “going green” is great… because we get to pass that savings on to our customers!   So if you’re like me&hellip ... read more

Most cars and trucks have automatic transmissions, yet a lot of Greenwood Village car owners only have a fuzzy understanding about what a transmission does. Think back to the last time you rode a bike around your neighborhood. You started out in a lower gear and shifted to higher gears as you went faster. Down shift for hills, stuff like that. Think of your legs as the engine – there’s an ideal speed you can pedal and you change gears to leverage the work you’re doing. Lower gears for power on hills or for starting out. Higher gears for more speed. That’s what the automatic transmission does – it automatically starts in lower gears and shifts up to higher gears to go faster on Colorado freeways. And automatically shifts back down to climb Greenwood Village hills, to pass, or to start up again. Truck automatic transmissions have certainly gotten more sophisticated in recent years. They have more speeds than before: the base is four speeds and five is ve ... read more