Tool Review: Knipex Pliers Wrench

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Dan

Sometimes a long-lasting tool design can be improved. I think this is one of those.

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My Car: Rewiring the Foglights

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Dan

Time to knock off another job on my list from the start of the year.

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Push-Button Shifter

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Dan

Is moving a lever to change gears the way of the past? It is for a few car models. For most of the history of the automobile, when you want to change gears, you moved a lever. When automatic transmissions came out, the lever was connected with a cable to a lever on the transmission itself. Nowadays automatic transmissions are completely electronically controlled, which means a physical connection isn’t needed as much.

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How-To: 1997 Honda Civic A/C Evaporator Replacement

Posted on September 22, 2016 by Dan

Earlier in the summer I fixed a leak in my air conditioning system, only to have it start leaking from the evaporator, which is the part by your blower motor that cools the air in the car. I could tell it was leaking because I could smell the distinctive odor of refrigerant every time I started my car. Here’s step by step directions on how to change your evaporator, if you’re sure it’s leaking.

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Features You’d Think All Cars Would Have

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Dan

Over time, so many features that at one time were “luxury” items are now found on every car. Power steering, power locks, radios with Bluetooth and touch screens, cruise control, and the list goes on. Sometimes I run across a new car that doesn’t have something that I would think would be standard on all new cars.

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4 Types of Parking Brakes

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Dan

A couple weeks ago I wrote a post about the different ways that you as a driver engage the parking brake. This week let’s look at the different ways parking brakes work.

Drum Brakes

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360-view cameras

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Dan

I’m not personally a huge fan of all the features cars have these days, mostly because of how having more features means more problems. But there are a couple features I love and wish I could have in my car.

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Power Window Switch Safety

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Dan

Power windows are a nice feature and on almost every new car you can buy these days, even on the cheaper models. There’s a safe way and an unsafe way to control them, though.

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Couldn’t Shift Into Park

Posted on September 5, 2016 by Dan

It was a typical day at work until the manager told me to drive to a nearby store’s parking lot to help out a customer with her car. She’d recently purchased it, and suddenly it was unable to go into park. I headed over and quickly confirmed that not only could it not go into park, but wouldn’t fully move into reverse either. I tried the shift lock override just in case it was the issue, but it wasn’t. Then I looked under the hood.

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Dirty Air Filters, Volume 2

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Dan

Last year I shared pictures of some of the dirtiest air filters I’d seen. There are more.

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