Suspension is the system nobody thinks about until something starts clunking. It doesn't have a warning light, it rarely fails all at once, and it degrades slowly enough that most drivers adapt to the change without noticing it happened. Which is unfortunate, because driving around the Treasure Valley is genuinely hard on it. What Your Suspension Is Actually Doing Your suspension does more than smooth out the ride. Shocks and struts keep your tires in consistent contact with

Almost nobody thinks about their car battery until the morning it doesn't work. And that morning is almost always cold. There's a common assumption that winter kills batteries. It's a reasonable thing to believe, since winter is when they quit. But the actual damage usually happened months earlier, during a Treasure Valley summer, and the cold just finished the job. Heat Does the Damage, Cold Reveals It Sustained high temperatures accelerate the chemical breakdown happening i