What’s the biggest pet peeve of our Land Rover mechanics? Most people keep their Land Rovers way too clean. It’s obvious to the car mechanics that specialize in Land Rover repair that many never take the world’s most versatile off-road vehicle actually off the roads...
Feel guilty driving a car in the face of climate change? If you own a European vehicle, chances are you can relax, at least a little bit. As any import car mechanic will tell you, most European vehicles are diesel, which is a cleaner engine...
As Jaguar technicians, we see our fair share of cool cars, but we don’t often see a Jaguar Formula E Racing Car kind of cool. From Electrical Car Report: “This October, Panasonic Jaguar Racing will compete in the third Formula E season with the first...
Confused by the Volkswagen recall? You’re not alone. In fact, our VW mechanics have told us they get questions all the time about which models and years are covered. Even though reports of Volkswagen rigging their emissions systems to cheat on smog tests surfaced over...
Winter is officially here. And the conventional wisdom for most vintage car connoisseurs is to put a tarp over your baby and hide it in the garage until the Groundhog sees his shadow. No one wants to rack up an excessive vintage car repair bill,...
The weather may be cooling off but car show season is just around the corner. Though most people mistake car shows as only a summer activity, the season this year will actually kick off in early February. In fact, the Cincinnati Auto Expo starts Feb....
We love old cars and restoring old motorcycles at our import car maintenance shop. They are a piece of history. And we couldn’t be any more excited when we stumbled across this video the other day featuring a Model H Triumph motorcycle from 1917 that...
Everything You Need to Know about Volkswagen’s Recall Volkswagen has acknowledged it circumvented the emissions control system in over 250,000 vehicles sold in the US since 2008 with the 2.0-liter diesel engine. Its recall could affect over 11 million vehicles around the world. The company...
A Peek Behind the Wheel and Engine of Volkswagen’s Electric Bus Volkswagen’s “gateway to the future” is actually an electrified blast from the past. Unveiled at the Las Vegas CES, VW’s Budd-e Concept is a futuristic take on the company’s iconic hippie microbuses of the...
DIY Car Repair: The Pros and Cons of Changing Your Own Oil Whether or not you should change your own oil is a question that will launch many die-hard car mechanics off of their barstools. There are several ways to approach the answer, but the...
Do you hear a clicking sound in the brakes of your BMW? Chances are something has rattled loose. The brakes are held together with a special holding device. Through the clunks and bumps of regular wear and tear, that holding mechanism can get jostled and fall apart. You could lose key components of the brakes, have the pad slip to a place it shouldn’t, or at the very least end up with inferior stopping power. Bring them in for an inspection. Sometimes it’s as simple as tightening a bolt. Put it off, however, and you could end up with dangerous brake failure.
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