With Age, Every Part Becomes a Wear Part

If you car begins to exhibit strange throttle behavior, lacks throttle response, or has surging power, the likely culprit is the fuel pressure sensor. It's very common for this sensor to get gunked up around 100k miles while some of the early sensors from 2004-2007 may fail prematurely due to a...

I recently found 2 of the 3 engine cover bolts to have stripped out threads on a 2004 Saab 9-3 Arc. The bolts no longer would bite and just kept spinning indefinitely. The bolts were fine but the threads inside the holes were damaged. One popular option to repair stripped threads is to use...

I may be the BMW Catalog Manager at FCP Euro but my better half happens to own a Volkswagen. I changed the oil on this vehicle at home with basic tools and decided to share the process with you. Changing your vehicles oil on your own is not only a great way to save some money but it's also...

For classic car owners there are certain topics that consume the internet in both the form of questions and answers. Topics such as “What fuel to use? What octane? What brand of oil? What weight of oil? Should I use synthetic? How often should I change my oil? And the list goes on and on...

This is not a hard job at all. It just takes patience when loosening the spark plugs. It took us about 2 hours to do this job using all Land Rover parts from FCP Euro, including a late-night run to Wal-Mart to get another extension for the socket wrench. And yeah, we went to drive-thru,...

PART 1 Now that we are officially into summer, at least in the northern hemisphere, there is no better time to talk about air conditioning. This week we will cover the A/C system in the 1975 Mercedes 450SL. To start we will work backwards in our process of restoration and installation. The...

For 1975, U.S. buyers were privileged to an all new feature—emissions! Yes, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or EPA, required that all cars be fitted with an emissions system to hep curb exhaust pollutants. With the on set of the new government requirements, auto makers scrambled to get...

REFRIGERENT r12 or r134 In our second part of the Mercedes 450SL air conditioning restoration, we will focus on prepping the system for freon. The 1975 450SL I am restoring, had the original compressor with r12 refrigerant. While it had long since leaked down over the near decade of sitting,...

I was recently asked if I would write an article on spark plugs and wires. Like tires, additives, cleaners, batteries, etc., we have so many choices and each with a claim to be the “best.” So just where do we begin to get the right product for our classic Mercedes? The best place to start is at...