Jerry's Auto Repair Jerry's Auto Repair

All Makes and Models: US • European • Asian
1260 South Grand Avenue, Pullman, WA 99163 • 509-334-7215

Jerry's Auto Repair Shop Door

The shop door at Jerry's Auto Repair is a place where people drop by for casual conversation. We talk about cars, road trips and good times, car and truck problems, your customer experience...or whatever is on your mind.

Every once in a while you lose your head…

CRVCylinderHead

With today’s improved technology and manufacturing it’s not that often that we run into an engine with a valve failure. This cylinder head belonging to a 2000 Honda CR-V has just been installed after having been removed and then repaired at the machine shop. Cylinder #4 exhaust valve had failed on a cross country drive to Pullman. This engine will…

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Simple Maintenance or Big Probs…

Corrosion

Recently I had a customer tell me that our shop is “preventive maintenance happy.” I guess it was supposed to be a criticism but honestly it’s a great compliment. When you’ve done this stuff as long as I have (since 1977) you detect an unmistakenable pattern: neglecting simple maintenance has big consequences. So why not give your customer a bit of…

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A Story Told Digitally part 2…

NewScanner-NewVantageTester

A few weeks ago in a post called “A Story Told Digitally” I shared a little about the diagnostic workhorse of our shop…our Solus Scanner. Well as it turns out the workhorse died and had to be replaced! Repairing a problem with the power switch was not practical and so we upgraded to the new improved (touchscreen) Solus Scanner and…

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