Fuel System
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Is your vehicle sometimes hard to start early in the morning? When you turn the key, does it hesitate or stutter? If so, the problem could be the result of a dirty fuel system. Your vehicle's&nbs...Published on: Dec 12, 2013 -
All modern Eagle Lake vehicles come with fuel injection systems, so it's a topic Eagle Lake drivers need to know something about. The mighty fuel injector is a valve that delivers the gas or diesel fu...Published on: Feb 04, 2014 -
A fuel injector is a valve that delivers fuel to a vehicle's engine. It has to deliver the precise amount of fuel to precisely the right place, precisely when the engine needs it. The fuel also has to...Published on: Feb 28, 2014 -
The function of the fuel filter is pretty self-explanatory. It filters your fuel. The fuel filter is in the fuel line somewhere in between the fuel tank and the engine. Both gas and diesel vehicles ar...Published on: Apr 16, 2014 -
Getting adequate fuel to your engine is very important for performance, fuel economy and safety. In order to accomplish this, your fuel system needs to be clean.Today's production cars have fuel injec...Published on: Jun 11, 2014 -
Eagle Lake drivers have probably noticed that the government mandates a lot of equipment on cars: emission devices and control computers, safety equipment like airbags and crash worthiness requirement...Published on: Jul 10, 2014 -
No one in Eagle Lake, MN, likes to spend a chunk of change at the gas pump. Rising MN fuel prices, however, have spurred Eagle Lake drivers to focus on how to improve their fuel economy. North America...Published on: Mar 24, 2015 -
If the fuel system in your vehicle is dirty, you will be hurting your engine and losing performance as you drive around Eagle Lake, MN.Unless they drive a vintage car, Eagle Lake auto owners have fuel...Published on: Aug 05, 2015
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Eagle Lake residents often ask the question: "Will using premium gas make my car run better?" The answer is simple. But first, let's talk about what exactly premium gasoline is.Different grades of g...Published on: Mar 10, 2015 -
At Hughes Automotive Inc we hear from a lot of people who are excited about the new diesel engines that will soon be available in passenger cars and SUV's. But our MN friends are often curious about...Published on: Sep 17, 2015 -
There are a surprising number of small, inexpensive parts that can lead to expensive engine damage when they fail. It doesn't seem right.Fortunately a lot of those things can be taken care of in routi...Published on: Mar 17, 2015 -
For those of you in Eagle Lake, MN who pay attention to these things, you may have been hearing about the new direct injection engines and want to learn more about them. Some deliver the p...Published on: Oct 06, 2015 -
There's not much we can do about the price of gas in Eagle Lake, MN, but we do quite a bit about how much we use as we're driving on our Eagle Lake streets.Our driving habits can dramatically affect o...Published on: Oct 16, 2014
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If you're a quart low in your vehicle, there isn't enough motor oil to lubricate your engine properly. The extra friction causes drag that reduces fuel economy while you're driving around the Eag...Published on: Sep 12, 2014 -
Most Eagle Lake auto owners want to save on gas and seek our advice on improving economy. At Hughes Automotive Inc, we are frequently asked, however, if it is really worth the extra effort...Published on: Sep 30, 2015 -
The team at Hughes Automotive Inc in Eagle Lake, and MN car owners are all talking right now. Better gas mileage. Fewer emissions. Eagle Lake drivers want to save the environment and their pocketboo...Published on: Jan 30, 2015
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Eagle Lake residents know that engines need to burn fuel to operate. Fuel is pumped from your fuel tank to your vehicle engine where it is squirted—or injected—into your engine's cylinde...Published on: Mar 06, 2016
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A lot of fuel is wasted in the Eagle Lake area by dirty fuel delivery systems in vehicles.Let's start at the tank. The gas tank gathers dirt, rust and sediment over the years. That's why there's a fue...Published on: Mar 21, 2016 -
A lot of us drivers are asking ourselves the same question lately: how can we save on fuel? Eagle Lake area residents are all cutting back, if not in fuel consumption, then in other areas of our ...Published on: Apr 03, 2016 -
With high fuel prices in Eagle Lake, MN, comes lots of gas saving advice. Some of it, like what you hear on {{ image('MTQ4') }} is great. When you get one of those e-mails that's going aro...Published on: Jul 03, 2016