If you need to save a little money and want to install your newly purchased car stereo yourself, here is how. Follow the steps below. Read on for more information. Read More… Things You’ll Need: Stereo Wire cutters Tape Screwdriver Wire Strippers Electrical tape Wire strippers Instructions: Step 1 Take out the old stereo. Unlink [...]

Loss of oil may be the result of a leak around the oil-pan drain plug. A pool of oil found on the garage floor tips you off to this possibility. Read More… The leak can occur when someone changing oil disregards the im­portance of the washer that was placed on the drain plug by the [...]

Although the spark plugs currently in your car may be the type recom­mended in the owner’s and service manuals, they may not be the best ones for your engine. There are at least three different types of plugs that will serve an engine; their difference lies in the length of their noses. Spark plugs with [...]

Every vehicle has at least five cooling-system hoses. Some have six. All must remain intact; otherwise, an engine will lose coolant and overheat. Every vehicle has an upper radiator hose that transfers hot coolant from the engine to the radiator, and a lower radiator hose that transfers coolant from the radiator to the engine. Every [...]

Vehicles that are equipped with electric cooling fans have switches that sense the temperature of the coolant and turn the fan on when the tem­perature reaches a preset level. If this does not happen, coolant will boil and the engine will overheat. Read More… Testing this switch to find out whether it is the reason [...]

Most vehicles are equipped with a conventional shock absorber at each corner or with a MacPherson strut shock absorber in each front corner and a conventional shock absorber in each rear corner. Read More… A conventional shock absorber is a fluid-filled sealed chamber that is separate from the coil spring with which it works. A [...]

A cooling-system thermostat that sticks in a closed or partially closed po­sition, preventing hot coolant from flowing through the radiator, will cause engine temperature to rise. If the thermostat sticks in the fully closed position, coolant will boil and the engine will overheat. If the ther­mostat sticks in a partially closed position, the engine may [...]