All cars that are made nowadays come with sealed plastic headlights. The problem with these headlights is that the seals tend to go bad over time and the headlights themselves can crack allowing moisture to enter the headlight unit. This moisture looks really ugly inside headlight lines and it also reduces the lifespan of...
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When you drive your car or truck at night to you find yourself having a hard time seeing things? This could be an indication that you have cloudy and yellowed or oxidized headlight lenses. Take a look at the front of your car at the headlight lenses during the daytime. Are they yellow and...
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Well, I am a service technician and work at a Honda car dealership on Long Island New York. One problem we see an awful lot of here when the weather gets colder is Honda S2000′s that have a hard time starting in cold weather. There can be several reasons for this, but the most...
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Last year ended up having to replace all four tires on my vehicle due to a busted belt on the left rear tire. I have a Ford F-150 and the tires were halfway worn any way so I just decided replace all four of them at the same time. I decided to shop it...
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Don’t you hate it when you get rate apply your driveway and put your car in drive and the check engine light or some other similar warning light comes on your dashboard? Does it mean your engine is about to blow up and that you have to have your car towed immediately to the...
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Currently gas prices are around $2.60 a gallon, which isn’t the worst it’s been, but it’s still pretty high and adds up quickly especially for those of us that have a long commute everyday. The average person today spends over $1500 a year on gas alone. In the average family spends over $2500 on...
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It has been said that during this recession or because of the recession that as many as 70% of Americans currently have bad credit. This could be from missed payments, a terrible illness or accident, being caught without health insurance, or even heaven forbid identity theft. The reasons are many and long, but as with...
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Well, if you’re like me, and you live in the South, then you probably have already started using you air-conditioner in your car or truck as soon as a month ago when the weather started getting warmer. Well, ask yourself this – “does your air blow really cold or as cold as you think it...
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Don’t you hate it when that check engine or service light comes on your car? Most people think that means it’s time to take the car to car dealer and that means it’s going to result in an expensive repair. This is not usually the case. Nine times out of 10 the reason why...
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Have you noticed how some vehicles seem much brighter with their lights on at night than others? Some really light up the road in front of themselves whereas others seem more dim. Yes, it is possible that this could be due to cloudy headlight lenses which is a rampant problem today, but we will talk...
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If you are like most families are just become an extension of your closets or basements and is mostly used for storage. So your cars end up parked outside and exposed to the elements. Regardless of what area in the country you live in the hot summer sun, rain, snow, pollen, industrial fallout and...
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All cars, except for the rare solely electric car, have 1 or 2 drive belts (note – we are not talking about timing belts here, only drive belts). But did you know that the drive belts are one of the most overlooked and under cared for parts of the car? We assume that they...
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Regardless of how careful a driver you are or even how carefully you park your car it will inevitably happen that your car or truck becomes scratched. It could be because of someone else’s careless mistake by their parking too close to your car. It can also be caused by an errant shopping cart. Maybe someone...
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