Category: Car Care Tips

Small Repairs May Return Investment No matter how well you treat your vehicle, it is bound to get some dings, dents, scratches, and scuffs.  Living in Billings, we get some tremendous winds that come through town, and despite your best efforts to part away from others, you will get that inevitable door ding.  Throw in a couple rock chips, some scratches from a careless zipper, maybe when your teenager backed into a post… you get the idea. Now that it’s...

Stop an Accident by Stopping on Time For most of us, the way a vehicle actually works is a bit of a mystery.  Sure, we get the basics of the mechanics of it all, but it’s truly amazing that when you push one pedal, the car goes, and you push another pedal, and the car stops.  At least it should stop. If you’re intent on not getting in an accident any time soon, then you need to make sure that...

The Easiest Way to a Great Looking Vehicle We spend a lot of money on our vehicles, sometimes pushing $100k.  But too often we get a little bit lazy when it comes to making sure that they’re kept in top shape.  Sure we do oil changes and regular maintenance, but we can tend to neglect the “beauty” maintenance thinking that it’s really not that big of a deal. A clean vehicle is a safe vehicle.  A clean vehicle lasts longer. ...

See Better When Driving in the Dark Have you ever been driving along, and realized that it was really hard to see?  It wasn’t that the night was especially dark, and you weren’t having vision problems.  Upon inspection you likely discovered that the cause for your “blindness” was that dirt and grime had accumulated on your headlights.  Wiping them clean solved that problem. Over time the plastic headlight lenses get scratched, nicked, and scraped.  There isn’t much that you can...

7 Tips Before You Head back to Class In a couple of weeks, you’ll be heading back to school.  Maybe it’s your first year after high school, maybe you’re an upperclassman.  The point is that you’re going to be getting back into the groove, and you need to make sure that your vehicle is ready for the semester. Here at Big Sky Collision Center, we want to make sure that you are driving a safe vehicle.  As the best auto...

Help Reduce Your Chances of Being a Victim Billings sees a lot of vehicle theft.  There are a variety of reasons, not the least of which that the police have their hands full with a lot going on in the city.  While it would be nice if we could all leave our doors unlocked and valuables in plain sight, that’s not the case. To help keep your possessions under your control, we have rounded up the 7 best ways to...

How to Know When You Need New Brakes We don’t need to go through how important brakes are on your vehicle.  We know that without them, you can’t stop and you end up crashing and necessitating a trip to the best auto body repair shop in Billings. But what if your brakes don’t give off that scratching noise that is indicative of brake pad wear?  What if you don’t know that your brakes are about to go out?  We have...

Not All Damage is from a Collision Here at Big Sky Collision Center, we specialize in fixing body damage.  While collisions cause the majority of the damage to your vehicle, there are other ways that your vehicle can be damaged that don’t involve a wreck.  Fortunately, the majority of them are preventable. We have rounded up the top causes of vehicle damage, and want to share with you how you can keep your vehicle looking great. Park Farther Away One...

Stop the Clutter; Keep it Clean When you first bought your vehicle, you probably were pretty meticulous about how it was treated.  Kind of like Richard in the movie Tommy Boy when he’s constantly getting after Tommy for eating in the car and getting it dirty. As time goes on, things lapse a bit.  You stop being quite so meticulous about things.  A little slides here and there, and soon you have piles of garbage in the back seat, and...

A Responsible Car Owner Maintains a Better Vehicle Most of us consider ourselves to be responsible.  We know that maintaining our vehicles is important, and we don’t speed (much), and definitely don’t drink and drive.  When behind the wheel we pride ourselves in our defensive driving where we are constantly playing the “what if” game. But how responsible are you really?  You are probably a good driver, but do you maintain a vehicle that could literally kill you if it’s...