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Found in Tire: Key
This last week I had a bunch of newly purchased cars come in with flat tires. Two only had 2-3,000…
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Painted Brakes
Many high-end performance cars have brakes that come painted, often red, so a popular appearance modification people do is to…
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Torching Bolts
Up here in the rust belt, everything gets rusty, especially exhaust systems. And when we need to replace part of…
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Fueled by Dog Food
So far the only dirty air filter pictures I’ve posted were the cabin air filter, but once in a while…
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Lost & Found: Golf Clubs
One of my neighboring techs was doing a used car inspection, seeing what was needed to get it ready to…
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Do We Have Parts?
It can be really hard to guess whether we’ll have the parts we need for some jobs or not. A…
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Bad Design in Brakes
So many times I’m working on a car and run into problems doing so because the engineers don’t expect you…
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Off-Road Prius?
This is the time of year when people get snow tires put on their car, sometimes on a second set…
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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…
