09/04/2026
Long weekend ahead, and a couple of local notes before we get to the useful part. Friends University hosts Bethel tomorrow evening, so expect the west-central side to be busier than a normal Saturday.
If you are driving any distance over the next few days, two things are worth a couple of minutes.
Tire pressure, checked cold rather than after driving. Pressure rises as tires heat up, so a reading taken at the end of a trip will tell you everything is fine when it is not. The correct number is on the sticker inside your driver's door, not the number moulded into the tire itself, which is a maximum rather than a recommendation. And look at the spare, because a spare that has been quietly losing air for two years is not a spare, it is a decoration.
Coolant, and specifically its condition rather than the level in the tank. Those are two genuinely different questions. Coolant carries corrosion inhibitors that protect the metal inside your engine, and those additives are consumed as they work whether the level ever drops or not. So it can be full to the line and chemically finished at the same time.
That matters more heading into a Kansas autumn than it does in July, because the same system that has been shedding heat all summer is about to be responsible for your cabin heat.
We are open until five today. Closed Monday for the holiday, back Tuesday morning.
8535 W 21st St. Call (316) 722-1900.
