Your service center Reno South Longley Lane(775) 828-6996
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Hidden Valley is about 8 minutes and 2.9 miles from our Longley Lane service center by OSRM routing, down the hill and across McCarran. The best time for a coolant test is now, in October, and if the coolant is weak or past your manual's interval, we flush it and refill with the type your manufacturer specifies.
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Here is the calendar that matters for coolant on the east bench of Reno. The Reno airport station, just below Hidden Valley, averages about 5 nights at or below freezing in October, then about 19 in November and 27 in December (NOAA 1991-2020 normals). The jump from a handful of frosty mornings to most nights below freezing happens fast. A freeze-point reading in the fall tells you whether your coolant is ready before that jump instead of after.
Coolant that has been topped off with water over the summer, which happens when a reservoir runs low on a hot day, has a weaker glycol mix than it started with, and a weaker mix freezes at a warmer temperature. Freezing coolant expands, and the places it can do damage are expensive: the radiator, the heater core and the engine block. Testing takes the technician about a minute with a refractometer. If the reading is good, you go home. If it is not, the fix is a flush to the correct mix.
Hidden Valley sits above the valley floor, and the drive home climbs. On a summer afternoon, when the airport station averages a high of about 94 F in July (NOAA), the climb with the A/C on is the cooling system's toughest daily test. Fresh coolant keeps the boiling margin where the manufacturer designed it. Census does not publish Hidden Valley on its own; the surrounding 89502 ZIP averages 1.61 vehicles per household (ACS 5-year 2024).
Come down Pembroke Drive to McCarran Boulevard and head west a few minutes toward the airport side of town, then turn onto Longley Lane; the service center is at 4993 Longley Ln. Open Monday through Friday 8 to 5 and Saturday 8 to 3, closed Sunday, (775) 828-6996. No appointment.
About 8 minutes (2.9 miles) to the Reno South service center by car in light traffic, OpenStreetMap routing (OSRM), retrieved 10/15/26. Not a promise of your drive time.
Just got my oiled changed here, and this will always be the place I come for an oil change. They were honest which is the biggest thing
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The airport station averages a winter low of about 27 F and about 25 nights a year at 20 F or colder (NOAA 1991-2020).
Only the matching type. AAA warns that coolant types are not all compatible and that color is not a reliable guide.
The battery and wipers are the usual pair. See our first freeze checklist.
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