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Suspension Carnage
Our collision center is right next door, so we do all the mechanical repairs to the cars they do bodywork…
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Time For a New Truck
The repair order said something along the lines of “customer states frame is broken”. As it was being pulled into…
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Old Engines
While I was in school, an older friend invited me to her husband’s engine shop. It was pretty cool seeing…
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Just Making It Work
Many times when working on cars we encounter bolts in really awkward locations, that make it a pain to work…
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Broken Timing Belt
The timing belt is one of the most important parts of an engine. It makes the camshafts turn in time…
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Flat Tires
A flat tire isn’t a fun thing to get when you’re driving, but sometimes it can be a pain for…
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Subaru Oil Filter
There are a lot of times that a mechanic has to wonder what the engineers that designed the car were…
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Water Damage
We had a very heavy rainstorm a couple months ago. I had parked in a low part of the parking…
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Don’t Stack Wheel Weights
I was doing a tire rotation on a Sienna minivan, and when I was all done and pulling out of…
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Pet Peeve: Wheel Corrosion
If there’s one thing I hate to find when working on cars, it’s wheel and hub corrosion. Aluminum and steel…
