Electrical systems. I hate them so much. They are among the only parts of my cars that I’m, frankly, incompetent at…
Every time you take your car in to a dealership for a repair or even a minor service, you get a receipt. Over 20 years,…
Something has been off with me lately. When I start typing Detroit into my search bar, the Detroit News home page is…
A reader spotted this W126 Mercedes-Benz S-Class on Interstate 880 in northern California today, a car and owner living…
It’s been more than a month since I bought a 1984 BMW 733i, and I’m happy to report that despite holdups from weather,…
Ah, the time-lapse build video. All the satisfaction of finishing a successful car project with none of the work, money…
It’s always intimidating cutting into a car’s sheet metal. But when it’s your first time ever doing it, it can be…
Over Thanksgiving weekend, I drove my 255,000 mile 1992 Jeep Cherokee 1,300 miles from Michigan to and from Virginia.…
Last night I was wrenching on the $600 Jeep Cherokee in my ice-cold driveway, preparing for a road trip, when I decided…
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: If you live where there is serious winter, you really need to consider…
I have a theory that we’re looking at city cars the wrong way. The ideal car for a dense urban environment isn’t some…
While I’ve never been the type of person to be particularly stressed about getting every possible power gain out of my…
It was lightly snowing, the kind of snow that doesn’t stick but turns everything into a horrible slush. It was December…
What do you do when the Jeep pickup that you’ve been neglecting for three years needs a transmission rebuild, but you…
Over the past week I had been thinking about selling my sweet little old Volkswagen. It had a few things wrong with it,…
When I bought my 1976 Jeep DJ-5D postal Jeep back in August, I knew it wasn’t going to be perfect. $500 cars rarely…
While cleaning my house on Saturday, I took a peek under a tarp in my garage, and rediscovered a car that I hadn’t…
In general, I try to avoid in-home explosions when I can. I mean, nobody’s perfect, and, sure, some explosions are…
It’s about that time of year when most people start thinking about shopping for winter tires in preparation for the…
How did my house devolve to this level? This is the question I asked myself last night after returning from a five week…
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