October in Southwest Missouri is a bit of a tease. One morning you are scraping frost off the windshield, and by afternoon you are back in a t-shirt wondering if you really need a jacket at all. But those warm days do not last, and before you know it the first real...
Your vehicle is constantly communicating with you. Most of the time it does its job quietly, and you never think twice about it. But when something starts to go wrong, one of the first ways your car speaks up is with a new noise you have not heard before. The problem...
Memorial Day weekend is just around the corner, and for a lot of folks in Southwest Missouri, that means the unofficial start of road trip season. Maybe you’re loading up the family for a run down to Branson, towing the boat out to Grand Lake, or heading west on...
Living in Southwest Missouri, we are all too familiar with that first true “summer” afternoon in Joplin. You walk out of a shop on Main Street, step into a car that’s been baking in the sun, and reach for the AC dial, only to be met with a blast of...
If you’ve spent any time driving through Southwest Missouri, you know our roads and weather put our vehicles to the test. From the humid, stop-and-go summer traffic in downtown Joplin to those freezing winter mornings when your engine struggles to turn over, your car...
