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Rounded Off Drain Plug
There are two things wrong with this picture, one may be more obvious than the other.
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Overtightened Drain Plug
Sometimes it seems like the last person to do an oil change must have used their full weight on a…
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My Car: Pre-Road Trip Work
I’m heading out on a road trip today, so over the last couple weeks I’ve gotten some work done on…
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Self-Destructing Camshaft
I had a 2001 Nissan Altima in for an oil change, and I noticed a noise coming from the engine.…
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Pet Peeve: Messy Oil Changes
One of my frequent pet peeves is when the design of a car makes every oil change messy. Often times…
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Bad Dipstick Location
In yet another edition of “what was the engineer thinking?” we have an example from Ford.
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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…
