How to Bleed Brakes
“Bleeding” the brakes just means purging air from inside the lines, master cylinder and wheel cylinders. If the brake pedal feels spongy - especially after you’ve done brake work that involved...
Pros and Cons of Alternative Fuels
At the dawn of the automobile age, gasoline was the up and coming "alternative fuel" - vying with electric batteries and steam power. Gas ultimately won out, of course. But now...
Car Buying Tips You May Not Have Heard About
Search around the Net and you'll find page after page of car-buying tips; many are good - some you may already know. Here are a few that you might not have...
A Better Way To Save Gas … ?
There's an easy, uncomplicated - and entirely voluntary - way we could cut our gas consumption by a third our more, without federal fuel efficiency dictates or pocket-picking gas tax hikes.
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New Car Features That Suck
Today's cars are vastly more reliable and better-built than the cars of the past. But some have features you wish would stop working - or that had never been installed in...
The $41k Fiasco…
How much crack, exactly, has GM been smoking?
Last week, it was announced that the much-anticipated 2011 Volt electric car will be arriving at Chevy dealers this fall - and that it...
Are you ready if gas goes up to $4 per gallon?
Right now, unleaded regular's hovering around $2.70 per gallon - high, but manageable. What if it goes back up to over $3 per gallon - or even $4 - which we...