A few weeks ago, I posted two of my options for a new car. One was an E46 BMW Convertible and the other was the first generation, C70 Convertible. After many responses and some very good feed back, it looked like the E46 was the way to go. It sounded like it would give me the little bit of room...

Over the past 15 years of driving on this planet, I have owned a lot of cars. There's my 1985 Volvo 244DL that I could beat on all day long and could never kill. My 1994 Chevy S10 Pickup that I got for free because the owner didn't want to deal with fixing it. My 1999 Mazda Miata, which is...

Over time, UV light can start to discolor your clear headlight lens into a cloud like yellow color. If left alone for a long time, it can get so bad that the light from your bulbs can be blocked by as much as 30%. The light coming out of the lens will  also no longer shine correctly and will be...

Being a car guy has it's pluses and minuses. One of the major pluses is that you are willing to learn a lot about cars and love looking, as well as working  on as many as you can get your hands on. One of the minuses, at least when it comes to me, is that I get bored with cars quickly and want...

This "how to" highlights a great way to keep your brake calipers looking new and clean. It's always a shame when you have a nice set of 18" wheels on your freshly detailed car and you see that old, rusted, dirty brake caliper behind it. But within minutes, you can make that old caliper look like...

Today’s how to will help the novice DIYers with one of the most overlooked maintenance items: flushing your Volvo’s cooling system. This is not a hard thing to do and should be done every two years.  This is what you will need to get the job done: • 8 bottles of distilled water • 1 gallon of...

We see it everyday. Gas prices at one gas station are higher than another. Shell could be $3.45 per gallon while Hess is only $3.35 per gallon. Then you see the no name gas is even cheaper. Have you ever wondered why the price can be so different from one gas station to another? It may be a...

It's a beautiful summer's morning and you're getting ready to head to work. You walk outside to your freshly washed Mazda Miata, get in, pop the roof down and start the car. You head out and take the twisty road to the parkway. You get on the parkway and everything seems fine at first, then...

You see it all the time on almost every car forum. The first question almost every new person asks when they get their "new" car is what to do with it first. And the response is pretty much unanimous: bring the car or truck up to date in maintenance and if you aren't using synthetic oil, switch...