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- Avoiding repair rip-offs
- Avoid getting taken for a ride by the dealer
- Environmentally responsible do-it-yourselfing
- Repairs and checks you can still "do yourself"
- Five things to never do to your car
- How often should you change your oil?
- Get your car ready for winter
- Eight ways to make your car last forever - or at least as long as possible
- Internet owners manual
- The right tool for the job
- Something For Everyone
- Transmission types explained
- Semi-Storage tips for Little-Used Cars
- Battery Tester
- Heaters
- $$$$ saved thanks to Eric's advice
- no oil, not muffler!
- Buick Makes it Good
- How to dump old coolant?
- cranks, no start, no code
- Warped discs and other myths
- ABS 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee
- Here's that Seafoam pic
- 99 Mustang door switch?
- Summer car care tips
- Carb Overhaul
- Make you car last forever (or at least, as long as possible)
- Grease Job
- Cheap auto fluids & junky oil filters, etc.
- Top Eight Do-It-Yourself Mistakes
- Biggest PITAS repair on a new car?
- Road-Roar Noise 60-70mph
- VW 40K Service - $600 for THAT???
- Repair Shop in Orlando?
- Good news on my L
- Much neglected truck
- Dropping Gas Mileage
- Coolant change on 2002 VW Passat
- Every 3,000 miles is too often for oil changes
- Summer pre-flight checklist
- Some of you...
- WOE IS ME!!!
- Spark Plugs
- synthetics/trucks
- Your "tipping point"?
- 94 Altima motor noise
- Minor problems - easy fixes
- trip odometer
- AT L2 gear
- 96 Saturn alternator
- A tough oil filter question.
- A Ford clue...
- The best of both worlds?
- Keep on Rolling
- Vapor Lock?
- Does gas really go bad?
- Tire psi?
- O.k. I have a question
- Gasoline Octane
- fuel/air mixture
- MY RV A/C
- Eight Random Home Mechanic Do's and Don'ts
- Cooling Shroud
- T or H-Rated Tires?
- Engine meltdown disaster
- It's "rigged" - but hey, it works!
- Those clever Japanese... .
- Great projects begin with great garages....
- A losing battle...
- Today's larger engines
- Things you should never do to a car (or truck)
- Speaking of welding...
- Moderator for this board wanted - apply within!
- How diesels work . . .
- How to make your new car last forever
- Suspension
- Right to Repair
- 97 Jeep Grand Cherokee alarm system
- "Service" warning?
- OBD2 codes explained
- On the "fresh gas" topic...
- Proper "tuck in" for a long winter's nap....
- Here's a good one: boost weirdness in the Evo
- VW developments
- LS1 Chev noise cold
- Not so successful car repair techniques
- Oil Specs USA different?
- Mixing Oil Grades
- Motorcraft batteries
- Oil alert for older cars
- What broke?
- Q-Jets: Attn Eric
- Q-jet visuals/for Larry
- Q-jet visuals/for Larry
- GM LS1 Upgrade
- 97 Dakota 3.9L Speed Governor
- Which brand for plugs, wires, cap & rotor is better?
- Window breaking spontaniously by itself?
- Octane Mixup
- Unshocking problem
- Repair/maintenance job you hate the most
- Annoying wiper problem
- Oil change rigmarole?
- WTB new floor mats
- Six unusual but essential tools
- The "Pulstar" spark plug?
- Oil changes: 1968 - 2008
- CHECK ENGINE LIGHT
- Power to the windows
- Pulley broke tonight - but still made it home
- Synthetics to help save gas?
- Repaint job
- Flushing Radiator
- Power Steering Fluid
- Japanese quality
- I Can't Believe This--- But It Happened
- 97 Jeep - VTSS problem ( I think)
- Dakota Check Engine Light Question
- Do the gloves come off?
- subtle 3G Camaro mods:
- Tire Safety
- Valve stems recalled
- Jaguar XK head
- Oil Additives? How About STP?
- Pesky problem
- Disabling air bags
- Bearing Oil Seal
- Five handy tips ...
- Cruise control diagnosis
- Trailer Hitch on a FWD compact?
- struts
- wax
- Annual "Safety Check"
- Disk brake pad replacement
- Brake Job (pad replacement)
- Tire Pressure Gauge
- Ford claims Focus is one of the least expensive cars to maintain/repair
- Ignition Switch---locks
- Buzzing sound
- my Jeep repairs . . .
- My 97 Sebring
- Weirdest/wackiest thing that has ever happened to you....
- Oil in there
- Maintenance myths?
- Don't freak about...
- Garage Safety Tips
- How much coolant consumption is normal?
- Tire Safety
- 97 Dakota fog lights?
- transaxle damage
- To cheap out - or not cheap out?
- Checking out repair shops
- Toyota Corolla Brake Problem
- Big Fat RV engines
- Speedometer Trouble
- Blown head gasket symptoms?
- Big Fat RV automatic Trannys
- When it rains..
- How to make your current car last forever - or as long as possible
- Our "new" RV!
- Sebring problem is back
- Overheat problem
- Sticky throttle linkage
- Legacy Gas Saver Valve Caps
- Changing tires in big fat RV's
- Pennies under the sofa....
- Trans Fluid Question
- Towing services
- power steering fluid flush?
- How to keep battery charged
- front brakes grinding
- power steering shutters/shaking
- adding aftermarket gadgets
- Carfax
- new tires?
- decent tankless air compressors
- Elaine's Cavalier question
- CA Smog Check woes
- DIY Oil Change.
- Auto TransLevel check
- Parts & Tools
- Auto tranny info.
- Fram XG oil filters
- Honda Gone Swimming
- Oil change essentials
- Dashboard GEN light
- Value for swimming Honda?
- No brakes!!!
- Tire pressure confusion?
- Hyundai Recall
- Noise
- Car Care & Repair
- Heater core failures.
- '97 Explorer interior light randomly goes on & off
- '97 Expxplorer Check Engine Light
- '97 Explorer power seat problem
- 96 plymouth Rallye minivan blink codes
- Hyundai Sonata Door Locks
- power steering problems
- 64 Mercury with 600,000 miles
- Funny story about my new Frontier
- Pre-flight checks
- The Car Log
- Don't Remember Paying for Rain in my Car
- How often do you change your oil?
- Pre-emptive spark plug change
- Headlight Dilemma
- Have you considered converting?
- Gas saving tips you may not have thought of
- ScanGauge II
- Don't do this!
- Fixed My Jaguar Tranny
- Well, I bought a scan tool...
- Winter weather prep
- Can't fill Taurus gas tank
- chrome strip coming loose
- Replaced Remote Battery - Incase this happens to you
- VW Transmission Slipping
- REM's VW question re-posted; slipping VW transmission
- Brake fluid, the facts!
- "Overkill"?
- No brakes!!! (in diesel pusher)
- What Is This??
- Dead battery
- Mixing Oil Vicosity
- radiator fan module
- diagnosis
- Are automotive electronics & communications system safe from viruses?
- rear seat belt
- Wife left ignition key turned on all night long...
- To sell NOW, OR........
- P0030 - Bank 1 Sen 1 O2 Sensor - Volvo
- Wiper arms
- Proper approach
- relay module (VCRM)
- Confusion replacing 02 Sensor
- Replacement Parts
- engine dies
- Door ajar light
- Reason to do your own maintenance
- headlights
- Bumper-shock absorbing
- engine dies
- difference between engines
- wheel alignment
- fuel additives
- used car
- Differential Oil-changing.
- Determining Keyless Entry
- replacing truck stereo
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