Car Maintenance

Winter, the most wonderful time of the year! Full of festive cheer, family gatherings, ice on the road and frantic…

As much as we might like to be, we aren’t always on top of things. Shit happens, and life gets in the way. Suddenly…

I knew it just a few days into owning my 1974 VW Bug: This car should almost certainly be fully rewired. Four years…

In years of driving old cars, I’ve picked up some habits, maybe superstitions, that I’m convinced have helped keep…

There’s a point in every conversation that starts on the internet about someone wanting to make their old Volkswagen…

The cost of car maintenance covers a pretty broad range. While it can be tempting to buy the cheapest products—brake…

One of the best things I ever did with my Volkswagen was take a gigantic trunk half as big as the car itself, strap…

Mobile auto services are more common than you might realize. At least in Los Angeles, it’s pretty easy to find a…

The Ferrari 348 was a maintenance nightmare. Not like a “one or two failure-prone parts” nightmare, but a “you can…

If you thought this was painfully obvious, well, you would be extremely right, as one guy quickly found out with a…

Today is a day that lingers, a day where time drags and patience ceases to exist. I don’t know about you, but my…

You know that bacon grease that you always pour into a glass jar because you’re afraid it will clog your sink? Well,…

Ever since Amazon Basics announced it’s selling its own generic brand of synthetic motor oil, the big question has…

Getting your alignment done on a regular basis is, for most people, an aspirational habit more than an actual one.…

If you wanted to find the most well-worn, gnarly vinyl-stickered-up car available, you’d have a hard time finding…

Unless you drive an Offenhauser-powered Indy 500 racer (don’t get me started), the engine in your car, tractor,…

Amazon, the company that will probably be the only place to buy anything in the future (much like how Taco Bell will…

On Sunday, I logged on to the Internet and eventually spent $463.96 on four Michelins for my 2008 Honda Fit, which…

In 2006, BAR Honda went to the Bonneville Salt Flats and became the fastest outright F1 car ever made at a bit over…

One of the fun things about working on cars is you get to assemble a tool kit. You never knew you needed a circuit…