Posted on 12/2/2015
Sometimes busy Hanover Park residents dream about going back to the “simpler” days of our grandparents. But if you could travel back in time and take a road trip around Elk Grove Village in a Model T, you might change your mind. The improved designs and quality of today's automobiles have significantly reduced the amount of time Hanover Park auto owners spend at the side of the road during breakdowns. With proper maintenance, today's vehicles can stay on the road longer than ever before. Some of those improvements, however, have led to higher repair costs. For example, older cars often broke down from vapor lock. Gas vaporized while traveling from the gas tank to the fuel pump. No gas, no power. The car quits going. The solution was simple - you just sat by the road until the car would start up again. Today's Hanover Park drivers would hardly tolerate that kind of inconvenience; and it's likely that yesterday's Hanover Park motorists didn't care mu ... read more