Repair From Potholes

What Damage Can a Pothole Do?

You may be driving along, listening to your music or having a quick chat with a friend via Bluetooth when all of a sudden, you feel a tire dip into an unknown depth. Ugh, it’s a pothole and it can most assuredly do some damage. Here are some of the problems it can cause:

• Bent/Scratched/Damaged Rims
• Flat Tires
• Alignment Issues
• Ball Joint Problems
• Blown Struts
• Suspension Trouble
• Damaged Exhaust

As you can see, hitting a pothole can cause damage to your car, but the good news is that none of it is irreparable. Each of these problems are well within the scope of car maintenance issues we can handle.

How to Tell If You Need Pothole Service?

If you’ve accidentally recently hit a pothole and done some damage to your car, the damage may be unseen. However, your car will work to communicate with you, you just have to know how to understand it. Here’s how it may be trying to tell you and how it may be trying to say it.

• Pulling to One Side – This could be evident from an alignment issue, which almost certainly means your tires or wheels sustained some damage in the incident. This could also be indicated by a shaking or vibrating steering wheel
• Strange Noises In the Rear – If you’re hearing some strange noises from the rear end of your vehicle, there may have been an impact with the exhaust system when you hit.
• Bulging Tire Walls – This could mean that part of the tire was damaged during your impact or that the rim may have bent in an odd direction, thus affecting the integrity of the tire.
• Fluid Leaks – If you’re noticing a puddle under your car that was never there before, the potential exists that something happened to the undercarriage during your pothole hit.

Our Service Center

With four different locations to serve our customers, your pothole issues are about to be a thing of the past. Every service technician who works with us has been ASE Certified and has received hundreds of on the job training hours, so they’re all well-equipped to diagnose what may be happening with your vehicle.

We know your schedule is probably packed with work, family, and home responsibilities, so we offer convenient online scheduling for all of your auto repair needs. For everything from small dents and dings to full frame repair, we can handle all of your service needs.