It was really quick and easy! They took care of my car and now I don’t have to worry about it.
Diagnosing common faults, and working out whether a repair is worth paying for.
Tires are the only part of a car that touches the road, and they are one of the few components where the failure mode is sudden rather than gradual. They are also, on a junk car, one of the more valuable things left. Checking tread depth New tires start around 10/32 of an inch. The […]
Salvage yards are the cheapest source of parts there is, often a fraction of what the same component costs new. The trade-off is that you do more of the work, and you need to know what you are looking at. The two kinds of yard Self-service (u-pull-it) You pay a small entry fee, walk the […]
Squeaking brakes range from completely harmless to a warning that you are about to spend real money. The trick is telling which noise you have. Noises that are not a problem A light squeak on the first stop of the morning is usually surface rust on the rotors, formed overnight from humidity. It disappears after […]
A sweet, syrupy smell in or around your car almost always means one thing: coolant is escaping somewhere it shouldn’t be. Antifreeze has a distinctive smell that people usually describe as sweet, a bit like maple syrup, and it doesn’t smell like anything else under the hood. The smell itself is not the problem. It’s […]
Read More… from My Car Smells Like Antifreeze: What’s Going On?
Car air conditioning fails in a fairly small number of ways, and you can narrow most of them down in ten minutes without any tools. Here is how, and what each outcome tends to cost. Start with what it is actually doing Air blows, but it is not cold The refrigerant circuit is the likely […]
Read More… from How to Diagnose Car Air Conditioner Problems
A blown speaker has a fairly distinctive set of symptoms. Before you start pulling door cards apart, it is worth confirming the speaker is actually the problem — quite often it is not. What a blown speaker sounds like Distortion that gets worse with volume — fine quietly, unpleasant loud A fuzzy, torn, crackling quality […]
Call Us: 1-855-928-2611