Summer in north central West Virginia means one thing for a lot of Morgantown families: loading up the Atlas and heading into Monongahela National Forest for a weekend of camping. But before you pack the cooler and hitch up the gear, a pre-trip inspection that typically runs $0 to $50 is a lot cheaper than…
Green Bag Road has been under active construction through 2026, with utility relocation work creating major delays as the West Virginia Division of Highways prepares for a larger reconstruction project that will add roundabouts to the corridor. A cooling system inspection costs a small fraction of what an overheated engine and a warped cylinder head…
Beechurst Avenue has the unfortunate distinction of ranking as one of the riskiest state roads in West Virginia, according to the state’s own Vulnerable Road User Assessment, and Morgantown’s Public Works director has confirmed the city fields ten to twenty pothole complaints a week, the majority on state-maintained roads like Beechurst, University Avenue, and Patteson…
According to the most recent data from national transportation research nonprofit TRIP, 29 percent of Morgantown’s major roads are in poor condition, the highest percentage of any urban area in West Virginia by a significant margin. For context, the next closest city sits at 18 percent. In total, 51 percent of roads in the Morgantown…
If you drive a VW Jetta, Golf GTI, Tiguan, or Atlas in Morgantown, your engine is accumulating carbon deposits on its intake valves right now. Not because something is wrong with the engine, and not because of anything you’re doing incorrectly. It’s a physical consequence of direct injection technology that affects every TSI engine ever…
The refreshed VW Golf R is one of the most technically sophisticated hot hatches ever sold in the United States, and the system at the heart of its handling advantage is the Magna torque-vectoring rear differential. It’s the component that makes Drift Mode possible, eliminates the understeer that plagued previous Golf Rs, and allows the…
Owning a VW ID.4 in Morgantown means trusting your range every single day, whether you’re heading downtown, across campus, or out toward Fairmont on the interstate. The difference between a well-maintained ID.4 that delivers its full range and one that quietly loses miles over time comes down to whether the right service is being done…
Last month, a 2021 VW Jetta came in after the owner hit a particularly bad pothole on Beechurst Avenue near the WVU coliseum. He had noticed uneven tire wear developing over the following weeks but kept putting off an inspection. By the time he came in, the front left tire had worn unevenly across the…
Last month, a 2022 VW ID.4 Pro came into our service bay with a battery that had degraded far faster than expected for its mileage. The owner had been charging to 100% every night and letting it sit depleted after long drives through the Mon National Forest. After just 28,000 miles, the pack was showing…
If you have ever walked out to your Volkswagen on a cold Morgantown morning and been met with nothing but a click, you already understand the frustration of a battery that has given up without warning. What most drivers do not realize is that high-altitude storage combined with West Virginia winters can cut a starter…
