Our May Charity of the Month is the Canadian Diabetes Association, leading the fight against diabetes by helping people with diabetes live healthy lives while working to find a cure.

Stop N Go Automotive will donate $10.00 to the Canadian Diabetes Association for every online appointment scheduled this month. Schedule your Online Appointment Here.

When booking an appointment online, please select the charity you want to donate to from the Charity Drop-Down Box.

Thank you for helping Stop N Go Automotive support the Canadian Diabetes Association
Learn more on their website at www.diabetes.ca.

Come into Stop N Go and take advantage of these Spring Tire Rebates now available:

MICHELIN - $70.00 Gift Card

YOKOHAMA - $40.00-$60.00 Rebate

BF GOODRICH – $50.00 Rebate

PIRELLI - $40.00-$200.00

HANKOOK - $40.00-$60.00

Call Stop N Go for Details! 905-336-2266

Expires 04/30/12

Our April Charity of the Month is the Canadian Diabetes Association, leading the fight against diabetes by helping people with diabetes live healthy lives while working to find a cure.

Stop N Go Automotive will donate $10.00 to the Canadian Diabetes Association for every online appointment scheduled this month. Schedule your Online Appointment Here.

When booking an appointment online, please select the charity you want to donate to from the Charity Drop-Down Box.

Thank you for helping Stop N Go Automotive support the Canadian Diabetes Association
Learn more on their website at www.diabetes.ca.

Keep a watchful eye with arrival of pothole season

As the ravages of winter subside and temperatures rise, there is probably a pothole out there with your name on it, cautions Car Care Canada. Cold temperatures, snow and rainfall create the perfect storm for the motorists’ dreaded “perils of potholes period.”

Drivers know immediately when they hit a pothole. The heart-stopping, teeth-jarring noise is hard to mistake. However, it’s not always immediately clear if hitting the pothole caused damage to the vehicle, and to what extent.

Hitting a pothole can damage tires, wheels, steering and suspension, wheel alignment and more. Car Care Canada recommends that motorists who experience any of the following warning signs after hitting a pothole should have a professional technician at their local repair shop inspect the vehicle:

• Loss of control, swaying when making routine turns, bottoming-out on city streets or bouncing excessively on rough roads. These are indicators that the steering and suspension may have been damaged. The steering and suspension are key safety-related systems. Together, they largely determine your car’s ride and handling. Key components are shocks and/or struts, the steering knuckle, ball joints, the steering rack/box, bearings, seals and hub units and tie rod ends.
• Pulling in one direction, instead of maintaining a straight path, and uneven tire wear. These symptoms mean there’s an alignment problem. Proper wheel alignment is important for the lifespan of tires and helps ensure safe handling.
• Low tire pressure, bulges or blisters on the sidewalls, or dents in the rim. These problems will be visible and should be checked out as soon as possible as tires are the critical connection between your car and the road in all sorts of driving conditions.

Car Care Canada offers these tips to help protect vehicles against a pothole encounter:

• Maintain full air pressure in all tires to provide as much cushion as possible between the pothole and the rim of the tire.
• Watch for potholes by leaving plenty of space between your vehicle and the one in front of you.
• Before swerving around a pothole, be sure to check surrounding traffic.
• If you can’t avoid a pothole — at least slow down! Hitting a pothole at high speed increases the chance of damage to tires, wheels, shocks, struts or springs.
• When driving over a pothole-filled road, hold the steering wheel firmly to avoid losing control.
• Do not brake when directly over a pothole. Applying the brakes causes the car’s weight to shift to the front of the wheel and can increase damage from the impact.
• A broken shock or strut from a pothole encounter could alter the steering and handling of a vehicle and create dangers when driving at high speeds or in tight corners. Broken suspension components should be repaired immediately.

Our March Charity of the Month is the Canadian Diabetes Association, leading the fight against diabetes by helping people with diabetes live healthy lives while working to find a cure.

Stop N Go Automotive will donate $10.00 to the Canadian Diabetes Association for every online appointment scheduled this month. Schedule your Online Appointment Here.

When booking an appointment online, please select the charity you want to donate to from the Charity Drop-Down Box.

Thank you for helping Stop N Go Automotive support the Canadian Diabetes Association
Learn more on their website at www.diabetes.ca.

Stop N Go Automotive’s New Oil Service Program – Every 5th Oil Change is FREE!

Our Every 5th Oil Change Free Program is Back and better than ever! You no longer need a key tag or a punch card as we will be tracking this electronically through our Rewards Card Program!

After every 4th Oil Change, you will receive the 5th one FREE! When you earn a free oil change, you will receive an email alerting you. Then, when you come in for service, our system will alert us that you have earned a free oil change. So there is no need for you to worry about tracking or remembering or bring anything in.

Call us today for details!

*Stop N Go Automotive’s Oil Service Program – Every 5th Oil Change FREE has no expiration date. This program may be discontinued or modified at any time.

Our February Charity of the Month is the Canadian Diabetes Association, leading the fight against diabetes by helping people with diabetes live healthy lives while working to find a cure.

Stop N Go Automotive will donate $10.00 to the Canadian Diabetes Association for every online appointment scheduled this month. Schedule your Online Appointment Here.

When booking an appointment online, please select the charity you want to donate to from the Charity Drop-Down Box.

Thank you for helping Stop N Go Automotive support the Canadian Diabetes Association
Learn more on their website at www.diabetes.ca.

Constable Jody Wilson with Stop N Go Automotive collecting the toys donated this holiday season for Toys For Tots.

Over $3,927.00 plus toys and gifts were donated to Toys For Tots this holiday season led by Stop N Go Automotive Centre and four other local automotive repair shops.

THANK YOU to our valued customers for helping us raise money and toys for the Toys For Tots Charity during the 2011 holiday season. Along with our customers’ Rewards Card Dollar donations, Stop N Go Automotive Centre donated over $712.00 along with many toys and gifts to Toys for Tots.

Please see future emails for additional fundraising efforts by Stop N Go Automotive Centre. Remember you can ALWAYS donate your Rewards Dollars to charity when you are in for service! Just ask the service advisor on your next visit.

Together with your help, $3,927.00 along with toys and presents were donated by our group of repair facilities and customers to Toys For Tots this holiday season!

Learn more on the Toys For Tots website.

We will be closed from December 24th through January 1st for the Holidays.
The shop will reopen on Monday, January 2nd, 2012.

We have donated the funds normally spent on paper cards and postage to our featured charity:
Toys For Tots. Learn more about our December Charity.