Posted on 10/1/2014
The West Service Center, Inc. Guide To Caring For Your Transmission Most cars and trucks have automatic transmissions, yet a lot of Portsmouth auto owners only have a fuzzy understanding about what a transmission does. Think back to the last time you rode a bike in Portsmouth. You started out in a lower gear and shifted to higher gears as you went faster. Down shift for hills, stuff like that. Think of your legs as the engine – there’s an ideal speed you can pedal and you change gears to leverage the work you’re doing. Lower gears for power on hills or for starting out. Higher gears for more speed. That’s what the automatic transmission does – it automatically starts in lower gears and shifts up to higher gears to go faster on Virginia freeways. And automatically shifts back down to climb Portsmouth hills, pass or start up again. van automatic transmissions have certainly gotten more sophisti ... read more