It's important to keep your vehicle in top-running-order by maintaining it properly. Read on for more details...

The fall season is right around the corner, but here at Capitol Toyota we're going to soak up the remaining summer days the right way, with a few more memorable road trips we can look back on throughout the colder months.

 

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If you're planning to do the same, then be sure to bring your vehicle into our service center right here at the dealership.

Part of keeping your vehicle in great shape involves inspecting your brakes regularly. Your brakes are integral to your safety, so it's important that they stay in great shape. You can learn more about brake maintenance in the video below.

If you’ve ever been out walking, jogging or cycling and had a close encounter with a motor vehicle, you know how scary it can be. In fact, approximately 125,000 accidents occur each year between pedestrians and automobiles. Of that number, roughly 2,800 involve so-called “quiet cars,” like hybrid and electric vehicles.

Regulators brought these concerns to the government and, in 2010, Congress passed a law stating that these vehicles must use some sort of noise-generating device to alert individuals of their presence on the road.

There's some old wisdom on how to tell when you need new tires. Take a penny, and insert it into your tire tread with Lincoln's head facing down. If you can still see his hair above the tire tread, then you need new tires.

This method works because every penny is standard, and the top of Honest Abe's head is 2/32 inch from the top of the coin.

But watch what happens when a car with 2/32 inch tread tries to stop, compared to a car with 10/32 inch tread.

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Toyota has begun letting owners of the FJ Cruiser know of its latest recall, which involves the SUV's front seatbelt retractors. And though specific owners will be notified to contact their local Toyota dealerships to have a fix made free of charge, we here at Capitol Toyotaa wanted to bring it to your attention today in order to help you fix this issue as quickly as possible.

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If you are looking for a new car, it is certainly the time to consider the hybrid market. With the price of gas on the rise, we here at Capitol Toyota are answering more and more questions from the Salem, Wilsonville, Portland and Beaverton, OR area drivers about hybrid models, like the Toyota hybrid models, now including the Toyota Prius, Prius v, Prius c, Prius Plug-In and Camry Hybrid.

We can certainly understand that some