Ultimate Automotive Service
5900 Oakwood Dr, Urbandale, IA 50322 515.270.2096

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Your Nose Knows Gasoline

Each time we fuel up our vehicles, we get a little whiff of gasoline, so the smell is very familiar. There shouldn’t be any gasoline smell in or around your vehicle when you are away from the ga...
Published on: Aug 24, 2023

Minimizing Blind Spots In Urbandale For Safer Driving

When we Urbandale travel around IA, each of us must deal with blind spots. We can greatly reduce our blind spots by properly adjusting our vehicle mirrors to give the widest coverage possible. We shou...
Published on: Feb 23, 2023

Gasoline Direct Injection

{{ image('MzU0') }} Question:My new car has a “GDI” engine. What does that mean to me and other Urbandale vehicles with this new type of engine?Ultimate Automotive Service Answer:GDI stan...
Published on: Jan 11, 2023

Diesel Engines

{{ image('MzU0') }} When someone mentions diesels around Urbandale, images of smoky, rattly trucks may spring to mind. The fact is that the modern, clean diesel engine is much more refined than in th...
Published on: Sep 09, 2022

Gasoline Direct Injection

{{ image('MzU0') }} Question:My new car has a “GDI” engine. What does that mean to me and other Urbandale vehicles with this new type of engine?Ultimate Automotive Service Answer:GDI stan...
Published on: Aug 11, 2022

E85 Fuel Safety For Urbandale Drivers

This automotive safety warning is coming from a very unusual source: fire fighting experts. You’ve probably heard of E-85 gasoline.  Some newer vehicle models are specifically built to run ...
Published on: May 09, 2022

Fuel Saving Tip: Fuel System Cleaning at Ultimate Automotive Service in Urbandale

A lot of gas is wasted in dirty fuel delivery systems.  Let’s start at the tank.  The gas tank gathers of dirt, rust and sediment over the years.  That’s why there’s a...
Published on: Jun 27, 2021

Ultimate Automotive Service Tech Question On Your Fuel Pump

{{ image('MzM1') }} Ultimate Automotive Service Tech Question:I was driving on a local Urbandale road and my vehicle started sputtering. And then the engine finally quit and I couldn't get it started...
Published on: Dec 15, 2019