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Tips for Safely Changing Brake Pads

If you’re a do-it-yourselfer and prefer to save those extra few dollars changing your own oil, swapping out your own air filters and rotating your own tires, you’re more of a car guy than most drivers on the road. If it’s time to up the ante and start getting a little more oil under those… Read more »

Tips and Tricks for Tuning Up Your Car

If you’re a do-it-yourselfer and prefer to save those extra few dollars changing your own oil, swapping out your own air filters and rotating your own tires, you’re more of a car guy than most drivers on the road. If it’s time to up the ante and start getting a little more oil under those… Read more »

What’s Behind the Massive Airbag Recall

If you drive a later model car, you may have serious safety issues with your vehicle. Faulty airbag design is leading to serious injury and even death in many different cars makes and models. Acting quickly to automaker recalls could mean the difference of life or death. Just recently brought to attention of the national… Read more »

The Differences in AWD & 4WD

Four wheel drive and all-wheel drive are great features to have on any truck or car. Having all four of your tires driving your car is an incredible advantage for traction in inclement road conditions. Many erroneously think these terms are synonymous and interchangeable. There are however significant differences between the drive systems. Four Wheel… Read more »

Do Snow Tires Really Make a Difference?

Snow or winter tires make all the difference in the world when it comes to efficient handling and control for your car throughout the cold season. Ask anyone from the northern part of the country and they’ll tell you riding on low-tread tires in slick conditions not only takes a certain skill level, but it… Read more »

The Toyota Difference, From the Ground Up

We all know how reliable Toyota cars and trucks are. They have the best reputation on the road for longevity, reliability and, subsequently, resale value. But just what makes these cars so reliable? What is it exactly that puts Toyota ahead of the rest on so many levels? To understand how Toyota engineering evolved into… Read more »

American Pickup Truck Battle Heating Up

As you probably well know, Chevy and Ford pickup drivers have been as divided as any age-old dispute could be. And with Dodge forever playing the middle ground, there is fewer more traditional American feuds as iconic as this dynamic. But the current is shifting, according to recent trend analysis. Traditionally America’s top selling pickup,… Read more »

What Do You Have Riding on Your Tires?

Tire tread is imperative to automobile traction, which could mean all the difference between getting in a car accident and avoiding disaster. But as a car owner, you also know tires aren’t cheap. Maintaining them will obviously help the tread on them last longer and protect everything you have riding on them. Tread is there… Read more »

What Built LA a Blueprint for Young Cities

The automobile built LA. The basis for such an immense, sprawling metro area, cars and the complex networks of freeways are the heart and soul of this incredible city. The means residents navigate the Greater Los Angeles is area is unlike any other in the entire world. The southern California love affair with the automobile… Read more »

Auto Maintenance Not One Size Fits All

Cars are increasingly intelligent, year after year. There are so many mechanical monitors and computers used to ensure automobile functionality and smooth operation, mechanics who retired 20 years ago would need a lot of new tools, and probably a repair tutorial. With these advancements, home auto maintenance is increasingly daunting. But they also make our… Read more »