Buying a Car
Weighing the Odds: Repair or Replace
Every ageing car reaches the same fork. Something big fails, the quote lands, and you have to decide whether to spend the money...
Founder and lead mechanic, page 7 of 8
Warren ran a independent repair shop for twenty years before deciding that the most useful thing he could do was explain, in plain terms, what he was actually doing and why. He started this site after too many customers arrived having been told the wrong thing by someone who should have known better.
Buying a Car
Every ageing car reaches the same fork. Something big fails, the quote lands, and you have to decide whether to spend the money...
Maintenance
Most car service records are useless at the moment they are most needed.
DIY Repairs
The advice you hear most often about brake pads is to replace them at three millimetres remaining.
Buying a Car
Most used car disappointment is predictable. Not all of it is avoidable, but a large part of what goes wrong in the first six...
Maintenance
Coolant gets less attention than oil in home maintenance guides, but it does the same category of work: it prevents a component...
Diagnostics
Workshop culture does not often make it into discussions about hobby habits, but there is a pattern that anyone who has spent...