Feel comfortable with a wrench? Do you have a home garage? Are you the type that doesn’t let anyone tinker with your car unless it’s way beyond your skill-set? This section is for you. What’s more, this is not just for the home mechanics. Here you will find articles about simple stuff like calculating your car’s gas mileage, troubleshooting problems and preventive maintenance… Even if you take the car to a mechanic later instead of working on it yourself.
If you have a squeaky clutch pedal, more often than not it’s something you can easily fix yourself by lubing it with an adequate lubricant. The trick is using a lube that’s safe on the bushings. Read on to find out.
The project of installing Powerflex suspension bushings in the RallyWays Miata is now complete. Let’s take a look at how the car performs with a now official Powerflex bushings review. Before we get started, here is the list of the Mission Purple project articles in order: Mission Purple Intro Part 1: Disassembly Part 2: Installation…
Can you improve your car’s handling and precision by replacing your stock rubber bushings with polyurethane bushings? That’s what this project is all about. Our mission is to install a full set of polyurethane bushes in our Miata and find out. The bushings, or bushes, are the rubber bits holding all the moving parts in…
How to calculate MPG correctly by miles per gallon of gas pumped without using any fancy devices? There is a very simple and easy process that I use which I’m going to teach you right now. It also happens to be the best way to calculate gas mileage because it’s accurate and directly connected to…
You might have heard about PDR or Paintless Dent Repair from a friend or on a car forum. Here we want to give you an introduction on what it’s about and how a car enthusiast can benefit from it. Dents are awful. They tend to come out of nowhere, too—other cars and lazy pedestrians are…
For some reason, if it’s not leather, it isn’t cool. However, leather seat repair is quite a business – generally, leather car seats aren’t as resilient as their cheaper cloth counterparts. Yep, the trend is leather. People like leather interiors in their cars. While most of the stuff mass production car companies are offering isn’t…