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Last month the annual international auto show invaded the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, displaying the worlds newest vehicles and concept cars. The Big Apple doesn’t get quite the cool debuts that Detroit or Geneva does, (No Volvo Concept Estate for this station wagon...

As we mature and grow older we come to realize and accept that not all things are meant to be. Those things could be anything, be it that dream you always had, that goal you hoped to accomplish, that obstacle you wished to triumph. Sometimes life just does not work out in a way that we ever get...

I suspect our Christmas parties may have been a little unconventional. We had the usual nibbles and drinks at the end of the day, combined with plenty of laughs about what had transpired through the year. But, I believe what made our workshop's Christmas parties very different was one of the...

This week I'm taking a look at a couple of common OBD codes that can cause a check engine light to illuminate.  A lit CEL usually leads to a state inspection or emissions fail but the good news is a lot of CEL problems are easy DIY fixes.  The car in question here is a BMW X5 with the M54...

Today we're going to show you how to change the oil on a 2010 Mercedes-Benz ML 250 without the use of an extractor. It only takes a few minutes, so let's get started. Mercedes Oil Change Kit (5W-40) - Pentosin/Mann MLOILCHANGEKIT Subscribe to us on YouTube About the Author Gareth runs the BMW...

As vehicles age, their hoses quickly become maintenance items that should be inspected and replaced if necessary. The modern engine bay is a myriad of different hoses, each carrying a different fluid with different requirements. It's important to inspect and replace the clamps that attach these...

Short and sweet, yet useful. Many of us have performed the most basic of maintenance procedures, an oil change, where we've had a cartridge insert filter instead your traditional spin on. In some of today's modern engines some of these filters are inserted down into an oil filter housing rather...

There's often a lot of debate about what new products we add to our catalog at FCP.  We often ask ourselves do the new products provide value to the customer? Are they actually useful? What is the brand's reputation for quality & service and does it match FCP's lifetime guarantee? Our tool...

When discussing maintenance with other like-minded Volvo enthusiasts, the most common items brought up are engine oil and transmission fluid. What kind of oil should I use? When should I change it? What about transmission fluid? Do I really need the expensive Volvo transmission fluid? How exactly...