Here’s what we do when there’s some spare time at the shop! We wish all of you and your families a very Merry Christmas and any other sacred holiday you may choose to celebrate with your loved ones.

Many of us can remember our first car. Mine wasn’t a Subaru. As a matter of fact, when I bought my first car in highschool in 1981 I didn’t even know what a Subaru was.(1967 Mustang coupe with 35k original miles).  I still had no clue what a Subaru was until I was hired as an [...]

I was approached by our booster club president at our local elementary school about a program called WatchD.O.G.S. It stands for “Dads Of Great Students” and is a simple program to get dads involved in their childrens school. Most of us Dads spend our day at work while our kids are in school. Our kids [...]

Subaru head gaskets are about as hot of a topic as national health care lately.  If you own a Subaru you know what I mean. Since the 2.5 liter Subaru engine was put into production there have been thousands of head gaskets replaced across the country. We’ve done a good portion of those ourselves. In [...]

Each 9/11 brings me back vividly to the morning of the 11th. On the evening of the 10th we had just returned home in the fameous Smart Service 350,000 mile Subaru Legacy with our new baby boy-Matthew. Just figuring out what to do once you get the newborn  home was exciting and overwhelming  for my [...]

The Shoreline Community College automotive program was very enlightening to me. I was surprised that after going through the first year of classroom/hands on training how many student’s just weren’t going to make it. Out of about 20 students I’ll bet only 3 or 4 made successful careers in the automotive industry. After completing the [...]

// We would like to thank all of you for the time you took out of your busy schedule to place a vote for our shop in the “Best of Western Washington” contest. It was close but we pulled it off thanks to you and all your friends and family! Not only did we win [...]

I’ll lead in with a question I’m asked frequently by my Subaru customers. Mike, How did you decide to go into Subaru? Well, kind of a long story but here it goes. Back when I was younger I had a Seattle Times paper route. My goal was to save up enough so that when I [...]

Hello all and welcome to the Smart Service blog.  I’m Mike Corbin, the owner of Smart Service. I’ll be writing this blog to provide you with friendly helpful information about your Subaru as well as other interesting things. Whether it’s the latest about Subaru head gasket solutions or local happenings in the Shoreline and Mukilteo [...]