Aimes Automotive

07/20/2026

I keep forgetting to post on here… to darn tied up… GOD IS GOOD.

06/09/2026

If I told you that your 2018+ newer car… any brand… domestic or foreign… was a reliable, dependable, and well engineered piece of equipment… I would be lying through my teeth…

The gasoline direct injection sand-paper effect, and the 10,000 mile oil changes… well. They paint a rough picture on a well withered canvas for a guy like me…

Timing chains the whole last month… v6s, 4 cylinders, and soon a v8 Audi…

Praise the lord!

05/23/2026

05/19/2026

Big shoutout to Ford Motor Company for engineering and building the biggest piles of junks on the planet…
Between the turbochargers, timing chains, and the (never fails, every time) rats nest under the intake manifold… Let’s just put it this way… they always have something that needs to be fixed… Never fails. Every-time.
I cannot count how many first gen 3.5 EcoBoosts I’ve done this year… too many, that’s for sure. 🤣

05/14/2026

Even though it’s very obvious what’s wrong sometimes, it always pays to go the extra mile and do some compression and leak down testing if any doubts are had about anything…
Don’t mind these gross numbers… these are a common “good compression test result” for a 1st gen 3.5 EcoBoost.
Also have some “rats-nest” wiring issues under the intake manifold… can’t count how many times I’ve seen that happen either.
GOOD TIMES!
Timing chain, VVTs solenoids, wiring, the works…

05/14/2026

Several times now I’ve had vehicles, both foreign and domestic, come in with bad run-ability issues. No SES light whatsoever.
Just start from scratch and follow the list of “KISS” method checks… and you’ll find the culprit in no time…

Fly in the mass airflow sensor.

05/12/2026

I really don’t think I can even put a number on how many “parking lot” rear differential rebuilds I’ve done…

05/05/2026

The brother and I started work on this one today. The brand new engine finally came last week, and it’s time to get the old junk taken out.
With the truck bed camper attached, the shop west shops garage door was just a bit to short, and the east shop is full…

Can you tell I’m happy to be getting some sunlight? Can you tell how thankful I am to be working, busy, and healthy?
If you can’t, let me just point out how THANKFUL I am for all of the above mentioned statements!

Mark 11:23
Truly I say to you that whoever tell this mountain “Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,” and does not doubt in his heart, but has faith that what he says is going to happen, HE WILL HAVE IT HAPPEN!

Amen. 🙏

04/30/2026

It’s crazy how busy a guy can get! It makes it hard to keep things (like our page) up to date!
Here a few photos of what we have had going on! Lots of automotive repair, a few cars bought, sold, and traded!
Plus, a new building under way!

God is more than good! He is everything! Amen! 🙏

04/07/2026

2019 Kia Sportage. Just hit 100,000 miles… Engine did not knock, but had a dead misfire in cylinder 1.
Skipped all the nonsense (compression and leak down testing) and went straight to the camera in the spark plug hole… Unfortunately, the intake valve had left the chat…
I know what you are thinking. “Lifetime lemon law Kia lawsuit”, right?
WRONG.
This engine did not have any bottom end knocking noises at all. The Kia recall specifically states bottom end only. I did all of the engine recall inspections, and sent those findings, as well at the photos and videos I took of the valves on cylinder 1, to Kia.

They returned with a call 3 days later… stating that the recall would not conver this engine, as the recall is specifically for bottom end engine failures only…

Kia wanted 15,000 dollars to replace the engine….

We were able to get it done for around 8,000….

I can name another instance where a Kia soul had an engine that should have been covered under the recall, but the customer did not have service record receipts, as they changed their own oil… This allowed Kia to use some of the “fine print” to avoid having to replace the engine under the recall…

Be weary of all of the terms and conditions on matters like this.

This also applies to your “Extended Car Care Warranty” that you may have purchased when buying a newer-used vehicle… be sure to have service records and receipt’s… if you do not… the extended car care coverage can be completely voided if you go to use it, and you tell them that you change your own engine oil.

I deal with these extended car care warranty companies, as well as car manufacturers (in regards to recalls) constantly… and I’ve been learning the do’s and do nots, to say the least…

The moral of the story is this… Pay for the oil change… get it done when it needs to be done… it’ll save you all sorts of money, in all sorts of different ways, in the long run… And save you a ton of headaches, too!