Spring Vehicle Maintenance | iDSC049

Spring Vehicle Maintenance - Your Car’s Needs Now – Rock Honda Spring-time vehicle maintenance includes simple tips that are easy to forget as we get excited for the new season to come.  But worry not!  Rock Honda’s, long-time Service and Parts Director, Ruben Serna joins the iDriveSoCal Podcast with the rundown of maintenance items to check off your list in preparation for the summer ahead! ***Transcript*** Recording date – March 22, 2018 Ruben Serna: And there's a lot of things that you should be doing to make sure your car is in tip top shape. Your car depends on you. You depend on your car, and as long as you take care of it, it's going to take care of you. Tom Smith: Welcome to iDriveSoCal, the podcast all about mobility from the automotive capital of the United States--Southern California. I'm Tom Smith, and joining me today is Ruben Serna, the Parts and Service Director from Rock Honda. Rock Honda's out in the Los Angeles suburb of Fontana and a partner of our program. So, Ruben, thank you for joining us. Thank you for being a partner and today's topic is spring maintenance. Ruben Serna: Well, thank you, Tom, for having me. I'm excited to be here. So happy to share any ideas or any knowledge or experience I've gotten over the last 22 years. So excited about it. Tom Smith: We're in Southern California and, as podcast listeners know, I grew up in the Chicagoland area. So the elements that my car, back then when I was in Chicago, had gone through by this time of year, it's quite a big difference. But, nevertheless, there are still elements in Southern California and there is still a checklist, so to speak, of things that you should take care of you know just to make sure everything's humming along, right? Ruben Serna: In Southern California, we are exposed to a lot of different environments where you know wind, Santa Ana winds come out here, really hot weather kind of an extreme environment. We're also close to the snow, close to the beach, so exposed to a lot of different environments out here. And there's a lot of things that you should be doing to make sure your car is in tip top shape. And we like to help. We're the helpful Honda guy, so let's do it. Tom Smith: The first thing on our list here is clean the exterior, clean the interior. For me, personally, the exterior is kind of like you know it's a good time to throw a coat of wax on it, right? Ruben Serna: I mean that's you know the idea of you know trying to look good rolling through my neighborhood. It's always nice to come in to get in your car that previously was dirty and smells nice, feels nice, looks nice. Just makes it feel like your car runs a lot better. Tom Smith: After I have gone a long time my car wasn't clean, and then I get a nice clean to it, I honestly feel like, "You know what? I think it's wrong and better.". Ruben Serna: Feel good. look good. Tom Smith: Is a cleaning of the underbody a good idea to do it in the spring? Ruben Serna: It's kind of like snake oil thing, you know? It doesn't exist. Out here in Southern California there's nothing. We don't see a whole lot of that. We try to provide a service that people need, and that's not anything that we've experienced that people need. So no, I think we're okay in this area, so we've never done it here. I can't imagine anybody in Southern California would do that unless the car comes from Midwest or back East, and it's already had some type of effect, some corrosion already exposed to that salt and stuff. So, yeah, I don't see it happening very much out here. Tom Smith: And the other items to cover in a spring kind of maintenance checklist, what do we have? Ruben Serna: You obviously want the one part of the car that touches the road is your ti...