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I am reminded, YET AGAIN, how simple things can become so complex once you actually do it. Question 1: How much brake lubricant is acceptable on brake pads? As it is right now, there a few spots with a thin film of brake lubricant, I wiped it off carefully so as to not introduce more brake...

If you have ever wondered how much a particular factory wheel weighs, you either try to hunt down that information through the forums hoping someone has accurately weighed it and published it somewhere, at some time, but you can also find a lot of that info here, all in a single place. Link...

Here's just an example: Raybestos https://www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo.php?pk=10999940&cc=1502550&pt=1704&jsn=434 https://www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo.php?pk=10999940&cc=1502550&pt=1704&jsn=434 ACDELO https://www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo.php?pk=11115525&cc=1502550&pt=1704&jsn=433 You will...

FUN FYI: You can buy a 50 dollar CarFax report for 4 dollars here https://carfaxcheck.com/ I bought 2 reports this morning, one for each car I own. It just works, exactly as well as you hope and expect. (I believe these reports are European Imports, thus avoids custom taxes and so it's so...

The basic idea is this: if there are shortages, there may be corners cut. If you can't source a particular part, or a part of equal quality, you may relax your standards a bit. We know for a fact that some features normally offered were no longer offered (temporarily.) This seems to be the way...

A fren has come to me seeking advice for a new car for his just-turned-20 daughter. He's been out of the loop (he was never in the loop) when it comes to cars, so they will take my advice seriously. Naturally, he's leaning towards the Honda Civic and the Toyota Corolla as people generally do...

How do automotive engineers/designers decide what tire size to give their cars? cars = any automotive vehicle, including electric cars. SUVs, trucks, crossovers, etc. are all included tires = the total size of the tire including the rolling diameter and the width (we will ignore wheel sizes)...

First, JB Weld does not conduct electricity so we are not using JB Weld to establish the electrical connection between two wires but instead we are using JB Weld to secure the connection against tugs, pulls, pushes, etc. I haven't tried this yet and I never thought of it this way until I...

I never fully understood but now I do, it has to do with the bad oil gumming up and seizing those piston rings!

All else being equal* will a bigger tire handle road imperfections better? The idea is that road imperfections will seem 'smaller.' Imagine a giant tire going over a pothole mostly undisturbed but a smaller tire may well be swallowed up. Practically speaking, your larger tire will most...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10294429/Niagara-Falls-woman-drove-vehicle-river-DELIBERATELY-authorities-way-retrieve-it.html You will observe that this car is a current generation Toyota Camry (quite possibly a 2021 Camry.) Due to current market conditions, is this car repairable...

I can't be the only who thinks that cars being produced in the current climate of shortage *might* *possibly* *maybe* have *potential* problems down the road. If you're scrambling to find replacements and/or alternatives, you might relax some of those typical quality control and testing...

These are the kits they make for the 2012 Honda Fit: https://www.wilwood.com/BrakeKits/BrakeKitSearch?year=2012&make=Honda&model=Fit&option=Base&axle=Front+Kit In particular, I'm looking at this one...

So here we have a Mevotech sway bar end link for the 2007 Corolla, installed just a little over a year ago, notice the nasty rust. Here we have the Toyota OEM sway bar end link: exactly the same car, same location, same driving conditions, same weather. These were on the car for 10...

This is for a 2012 Honda Fit which came stock with 175/65R15 tires on a 15x5.5 steel wheel (with wheel covers, of course!) I have since replaced the wheel with an alloy aftermarket wheel (Konig Helium 15x6.5 size) on those same tires. I wonder if go wider promotes that feeling of 'stability'...

I haven't really heard about this phenomenon (if it really exist to any meaningful extent.) I guess the geographical barriers and DMV laws are really what makes the used car market basically.. local. Is this correct? Are there a lot of ppl who will travel outside of the rust belt for their...

So, my 2012 Honda Fit's CV axle snapped just now. I managed to push it near the curb where it is parked. This happened 1 week before I was set to bring it to Honda to replace those same CV axles as part of their recall campaign (many 2009 to 2013 Honda Fits have had the CV axles snap due to...

Now, why would someone want to do that? Here's the reason: the brake drums are realllllly ugly and full of nasty rust, HOWEVER they work great. So there's no functional reason to replace them at this time, setting the parking brake locks them up real tight. So they work great but they're just...

^ This here is the top of a TEIN damper bolt. You can see the top is machined flat which allows you to use the box end of a 10mm wrench to hold the bolt in place. Here's the problem with this design: using the 10mm wrench causes the thread part to deform a little bit, even a little bit causes a...