Automotive Industry News & Information - Twisted Metal Offroad & Diesel

Alignment is the position of your wheels in relation to your vehicle and how they interact with the road. When your vehicle is properly aligned, your wheels will point in the same direction as the vehicle. To maintain proper control of your car, you must keep your wheels in proper alignment. Otherwise, steering will become difficult, your tires will wear unevenly and your fuel economy will decrease.

What is your flywheel, and when do you need to replace it? Twisted Metal Off Road & Diesel in Tampa, FL has the answers you’re looking for.

If you own or operate a fleet or commercial truck, you know how quickly miles rack up and oil changes are needed. At Twisted Metal Off Road & Diesel in Tampa, FL, our main goal is to keep your trucks on the road - a huge part of that is changing your oil on time.

Glow Plugs are an essential component of your diesel engine. However, a faulty glow plug can go unnoticed or be neglected for quite some time; your truck will still start and run, so it’s an easy issue to overlook. At Twisted Metal Off Road & Diesel in Tampa, FL, we want you to know what to look for, and why you should be concerned with a bad glow plug.

Automatic transmissions are the default now - with efficiency approaching or surpassing that of manual transmissions, and automatics with 8 or 10 electronically controlled gears, it’s no surprise they’ve gained so much popularity over the past few decades. But where did it all start? Twisted Metal Off Road & Diesel in Tampa, FL has the answers.

Routine maintenance can lead us to discover all kinds of things you would think are obvious but as drivers with a routine, we simply get in and drive. We may think that if the lights come on and the car starts there are no issues, but at Twisted Metal Off Road & Diesel in Tampa we know what to look for and when to ask questions. When your vehicle is pulling to one side there are several possibilities.

On gas engines, the fuel delivery system is pretty simple - an electric pump draws gas from the tank, and pushes it to the injectors. Diesel systems are a little more complex. At Twisted Metal Off Road & Diesel in Tampa, FL, we like to keep you informed about what’s on your truck, how it works, and how to maintain it, so you stay reliably on the road.

Everyone from mechanics, to your uncle that works on cars, has at some point given you advice concerning engine oil. The fact of the matter is that while we are familiar with words like “synthetic” and “oil weight,” many people don’t know exactly what the terminology means, or why common knowledge about oil exists in the form that it does. At Twisted Metal Off Road & Diesel in Tampa, FL, we keep things clear and simple. The more you know about your vehicle, the better equipped you are to keep it maintained, and we know a thing or two about vehicles. We have compiled a short list of common myths for you, most of which you’ve heard, but maybe never second guessed.