I wish dealerships extended the courtesy of turning off proprietary service and fault code reminders on older vehicles. Most dealers will still charge good money to turn off the unavoidable service...
So you're in your ride cruising down the streets when all of a sudden you hear a knocking noise coming from the front suspension. Now, most of us love our Volvos and have come to know that there are several things that could cause knocking or clunking in our front ends. But, one of the weakest...
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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...