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 […]
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What to Do With Your Plates When Selling Your Junk Car
In most states, license plates belong to you, not to the car. When you sell a junk car, the plates come off before the tow truck pulls away. People forget this constantly, and it is one of the easier ways to inherit somebody else’s parking tickets. Why you take them off A plate is what […]
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How to Assess a Flood Damaged Car
Whether you are looking at your own flooded car or thinking about buying one cheap, the assessment is the same. You are trying to establish three things: how high the water reached, what kind of water it was, and whether the engine was running when it happened. Everything else follows from those answers. Find the […]
That Old Car May Be Costing More Than You Think
We all know that one person who refuses to give up their old, beat-up vehicle. They don’t seem to care that the engine lets out an ungodly shriek each time it starts up (if its fortunate enough to), alerting everyone within a 3-block radius to clear off the roads or choke on the pungent aroma […]
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Selling a Flood Damaged Car
Is a flood damaged car worth anything? Yes — often more than people assume. But the number depends almost entirely on how high the water got and what kind of water it was, and you need to be straight with whoever buys it. How high did the water reach? This is the question that decides […]
Do I Need a Receipt When I Sell My Car to a Junkyard?
Yes. Whenever you sell a vehicle — to a junkyard, a scrap dealer, an online buyer or the person down the street — get written proof that you sold it, who you sold it to, and when. This is the single most-skipped step in a junk car sale, and it is the one that causes […]
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How to Sell Your Junk Car for Parts
Parting out a junk car can bring in noticeably more than selling it whole. It can also eat weeks of your time, fill your driveway with components, and leave you with a stripped shell nobody wants to collect. Whether it is worth it comes down to what car you have, how much space and time […]
Top 6 Things to Do Before Selling Your Junk Car
Selling a junk car is straightforward, but a handful of things are much easier to sort out before the tow truck arrives than after it has gone. Here are the six worth doing. 1. Empty the car properly Not a quick glance — an actual search. Glovebox, center console, door pockets, under and between the […]
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