Blog

The longer you own your vehicle from Acura of Honolulu, the more likely it is that your headlights will suffer from cloudy lenses. This is especially common in vehicles with plastic headlight lenses, which constitutes most modern vehicles. In addition to ruining the look of your vehicle, cloudy lenses can cause a safety hazard in Honolulu by causing light from the bulbs to be improperly dispersed. Fortunately, restoring the lenses is a fairly straightforward process.

Use A Kit
The most effective way to clean cloudy lenses is to utilize a headlight restoration kit.

If there's one thing that's certain about driving around Honolulu, it's that you never know what kind of conditions you're going to encounter. To keep you and your passengers safe while you drive, it's important to stow a roadside emergency kit in your vehicle at all times. Here are a few things that you'll see in the roadside emergency kits of the associates at Acura of Honolulu.

Traffic Control

If you get stuck on the side of the road, you need to be able to warn other motorists so that they don't collide…

Though a flat tire can be frustrating, it's something that you're likely to experience at some point during your driving career in Honolulu. To help get you back on the road quickly, it's important that you're aware of how to replace a flat tire, with or without assistance. This will give you the extra mileage you need to make it to Acura of Honolulu for further repairs.

You'll want to start by elevating your vehicle in the corner where the flat tire is located. Your car has specific jack points that you can find in…

If you have a vehicle, then you probably know a little bit about your muffler and your exhaust system. However, you should have a more basic understanding of these parts of your vehicle. Here's a look at what you should know about your vehicle's muffler and exhaust.

What is a Muffler?

The muffler is the silencer of your exhaust system. Without the muffler, your exhaust system will make loud noises every type you drive your vehicle. A typical muffler will last five to seven years before it requires replacement.

 

Oversteering and understeering are two terms applied depending on how the steering behaves. Oversteering will occur when the vehicle turns more than the driver's action it while understeering is becoming less than how the driver controls it. The two actions will arise depending on the vehicle’s steering angle and acceleration.

Both the understeer and the oversteer occurs as a because of the difference in slip angles between the front wheels and the rear. Slip angle is that angle difference between the wheel direction and the where the car is heading.

When it comes to understeering, 

Do you know how your gas gets from your fuel tank to your engine? The part responsible is the fuel pump. If your fuel pump is not functioning properly, then you may have some performance issues with your vehicle. Left unchecked, you could have a complete engine breakdown. Here are some warning signs to look for.

Sputtering Vehicle At Higher Speed

The faster your vehicle goes, the more your fuel pump has to work. If your fuel pump is failing, it will have trouble feeding your engine with gas. This could lead to a sputtering vehicle and a potential breakdown…

Once a car's tire goes flat, it needs replacing. Will you use a smaller-sized "donut" or a full-sized replacement? There's a big difference between the two.

A donut is a small-sized tire intended as a short-term replacement. Once this tire goes on the car, you need to travel slowly to a tire shop to get a full-size replacement. Donuts have limitations. They can explode at high speeds and are not meant for long-term driving

Some opt to keep full-sized tires in their vehicles. A matching full-sized tire provides an immediate replacement.

We all love our pets, but pet hairs can be downright pesky. To prevent having your vehicle littered with pet hair problems, consider the following:

1. Duct Tape: You read that correctly. Using duct tape is your inexpensive alternative to picking up pet hairs. Simply wrap the tape around your fingers, inside out, and voila! You can press the tape against the pet hairs to retrieve them quickly and effectively.

2. Gloves: Don't like the duct tape idea? Put on a pair of disposable gloves and lightly spray down your vehicle's upholstery. 
 

One of the most significant factors that contributes to your car battery not functioning at peak efficiency is extreme weather. When temperatures become too hot or too cold, your car battery will not work to its optimal potential.

A car battery that exposed to outside temperatures of 92 degrees Fahrenheit on a consistent basis will last less than 50% as long as one typically exposed to temperatures at the 77 degree mark. The capacity of a traditional car battery drops by about 20% when exposed to freezing temperatures. Capacity drops even further as the temperature drops even lower.

 

Rotating the tires on your car is an important task as you need to ensure that they a proper balance of wear and tear. Taking the time to have your tires rotated at Acura of Honolulu can also lead to a maximum mileage for your tires instead of replacing them every few months.

The pattern for changing your tires is usually based on the type of vehicle that you have. If you have a front-wheel-drive car, then you can usually change the tires by crossing them over to each side and from front to back.

Rear-wheel-drive and all-wheel-drive cars have…