Patriotic Transmission Repair

In many ways the history of America can be traced along the same path as the history of the car. When the Model T came along in 1908, it not only represented a revolutionary shift in transportation, it also hinted at an imminent revolutionary shift in world power from the British Empire to the United States. Perhaps that's why the car has long served as one our country's most sturdy and unique symbols, right up there with baseball, American football, light beer, winged predators, and supermalls—ok, maybe rated a little higher than a few of those.

And because the car has for so long symbolized much of the American way, it's always been thoroughly ingrained into many of our most familiar images in pop-culture: the sleek and muscular convertible that blazes through the already blazed desert; the huge and agile truck that can apparently climb over mountainous terrain, knife through thick snowstorms, and pass through rings of fire; and the sporty sedan that effortlessly maneuvers through downtown traffic with skill and alacrity and precision of a circus high-wire act.

Think of all the endless high-speed chases and sentimental movie montages. Think of the mythos of the American open road, the two-lane highway. Think of classic literature, and that only in America could a novel be devoted to apparently nothing but the drive and the journey that drive presents. The automobile is inextricably attached to the idea of America in the same way that the kangaroo is attached to Australia or that spaghetti is emblematic of Italy.

But, first things first—let's define our terms. When we say that the automobile is congenital to the concept of America, we are saying that a smooth-running, fully functional, optimal engine automobile is part of the American identity. Not the automobile that is sitting in your garage gathering rust and dust in dire need of a transmission repair. A car whose engine sounds like a cave of bats, a car that trips gears and staggers forward as if it were (poorly) playing an endless game of red-light-green-light—that is not the archetypal automobile.

Unfortunately, if you look around you next time you're on the road, that is the car that you often find sharing the road with—or maybe the car that you find yourself driving. If that's the case, a transmission repair might be in order. After all, even if your car can't negotiate traffic or extreme terrain in the way that you see on television, you still want your gears working the way that they should be. In other words, if you say go, your car should respond accordingly. Some signs that you should consider a transmission repair include poor acceleration, bad gas mileage, noticeable bucks when going into the drive or reverse gears, or automotive vibrations. To save your car from becoming mere garage art, and to uphold the American tradition of the finely tuned automobile, make sure you get a transmission repair when the signs start to show.