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Reasons Why You Should Service Your Car in El Paso, TX

As a car owner, the importance of routine maintenance cannot be stressed enough. Even so, when the time comes, many owners battle with the question of whether to take the vehicle to the garage down the street, or whether to visit a certified dealership. Below are some reasons and benefits of taking your car to our service team at Dick Poe Dodge:

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Keep Your Car Running Efficiently


Vehicle maintenance is vital if you want to keep your car on the road. Regular maintenance will not only keep your ride running efficiently, but it will also make it much easier to catch something that may become a problem later on. It is important to schedule regular checkups with Dick Poe Dodge Ram in order to keep your car running to the best of its ability and to get the best performance and gas mileage out of it.

It is also a good idea to form good habits and to check your oil and tire pressure regularly. Even a…
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What Tire Speed Rating Do You Need?

When you start looking at new tires, you will notice that they have a speed rating. Buying the right rating for your type of driving can help your tires last longer.

Speed ratings generally range from 99 to 186 miles per hour. While you may never go that fast, if you do a lot of highway driving, then you will want a tire near the top of the range. They will last longer when you hit the open highway as their rubber compound is a different consistency than the ones with a lower rating.

On the other hand, if you…
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The Truth About Your Next Break Repair

We all know that having a brake inspection done can lead to the mechanic telling us that we need brake repair. Many people think that this is a bad thing, maybe because it is going to cost money to fix the brakes. Stop that thinking. Letting a brake repair go undone is grounds for more money out of pocket and a life full of stress or worse. Brakes are an important part of the vehicle and you need to get them checked and fixed. Doing this will save you time and money somewhere down the road.

What most people don…
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Watch Oil Make Its Way Through Your Engine, and You'll Never Miss an Oil Change Again!

How important is oil to your truck, really? You may have been tempted in the past to skip the oil change, let the odometer roll happily past the maintenance interval without stopping. But is that a sound choice?

When you watch a cut-away demonstration of the path engine oil takes, it becomes shockingly clear just how important this viscous substance is. In the span of five seconds, oil makes its way from the sump tank, over the bearings, crank shaft, pistons, and valve train. In the highest-pressure engine parts, oil is the only thing preventing metal scraping directly against metal…

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Ram Thanks The Workforce on 7/24

Today, on 7/24, Ram wants to take some time to thank those workers who put in more than the minimum. Those brave souls who show up early, stay late, take the graveyard shift, and run 24/7/365 to keep the rest of us going. Your contributions have not gone unnoticed. At Dick Poe Dodge Ram, we want to give a shout out to all you hard-working individuals in El Paso, TX. Without you, our economy and our community would not be the same. We consider Ram a symbol of the everyman--those people who are
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Surviving the road trip this summer

Here at Dick Poe Dodge we know that a successful road trip is important, and getting through it without major car disasters is even more important. How can you make sure your car is better prepared for the road trip? Follow some of our tips and make your trip less worrisome.

  • Is your vehicle up to date on service appointments? Regular oil changes and brake checks help your car stay in good health, so don…
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Transmission Issues Lead to Chrysler Group Recall

Take a walk around the Dick Poe Dodge lineup and you'll see one thing for sure: there's no lack of quality, powerful, stylish vehicles here in the El Paso, TX location and we're all here ready and waiting to help you out in any way we can. Unfortunately, sometimes accidents happen and today is one of those times as Chrysler Group has issues a recall on two models available at our dealership…

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Information on the RAM 1500 Parking Brake Recall

Here at Dick Poe Dodge, we pride ourselves on selling some of the safest vehicles on the road. With warranties included on all new car or truck purchases, we can offer you peace of mind, too. Buy a new RAM truck from us and you can be sure that we expect the same performance, reliability, functionality and safety from the vehicle as you do.

Long after a RAM truck leaves the assembly line, the American…

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