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.

A Hole in One….(transmission)!

99 VW Golf

Here at Jerry’s Auto Repair we sometimes wrestle with difficult diagnostics -computerized engine control issues, intermittent “ghost” symptoms that appear and then disappear, and some very quirky things that you’re just not going to see more than once in a lifetime. But sometimes (thankfully) our diagnostics can be straightforward. Among the easier to diagnose problems are things with “big holes” in…

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A Tale of Deficit Charging…

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Pictured to the left is our shop’s portable jumper battery that we use for vehicles who arrive with a dead or discharged battery. Something that we see fairly often in our college town is a situation where a student starts his/her car and then drives a very short distance to class. Later the car is driven the short distance back…

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No…That’s Not Chocolate Frosting That You See!

Engine Sludge

The inside of this 3.7 liter V-6 Jeep Grand Cherokee motor is covered with what looks like generous portions of chocolate cake frosting. This thick sticky stuff is known as “sludge” and accumulates over time when the engine oil is not regularly changed. In this particular case the camshaft (internal to the engine) actually came loose and had worn a…

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