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Saw this about 14 weeks ago and fell in love with the body lines and overall look. Can't recall ever seeing one. Tried to resist contact. Yet after 12 weeks I felt it was hanging around to torture me unless I went to see it much like my Parklane did in 2003. So I went, I saw, and I bought. Owner...

The car in question is my wife's 2018 Mazda 3 2.0L Skyactiv. She tells me around noon, as I am vacuuming the inside (she is a mess) that the check engine light went on late last night. Why? How do I know until I put my scanner on. So I scan for codes and get six of them from Camshaft, to Fuel...

The husband of a friend of my wife was over today for a BBQ and related to me a problem with his 238,000 mile 2000 Sienna. Now he almost zero knowledge on cars and I had to show him how to do an oil change on a BMW 538i. So this Sienna threw a P0171 code a week ago. First guy was a mobile...

This is from a 1998 Vulcan engine with 207,000 miles on it. A while back there was a very light ticking sound in the car for a few days. Since it was near the time to change the oil I did so and tried some Platinum Plus. As soon as I started the car there was that ticking from somewhere. I...

Apparently there has been some slippage in quality of the Motorcraft filters made by Purolator as Purolator has a new owner. The new Champion made Carquest filters (formerly Wix made) more closely match what Fords came with from the factory. Video on them...

The car in question is a 144,000 mile 1990 Mazda 626 automatic. Up until yesterday the car was fine. Then while my wife was driving back to our office, on the freeway, the engine just shut off and she needed to coast off the freeway. An hour later I was able to get to the car and take a look...

About 5 weeks ago my wife ran her car a tad longer than she should have after a heater hose split behind the 3.0 Vulcan engine. Consequently, the temperature went up, she didn't see it, but noticed the car running rough and finally pulled off. This was 120 miles from home, of course, but a Good...

I happen to have 8 cars with 4 of them easy to spec an oil while 4 are tougher. The Focus uses 5W-20 dino, the Sable and 626 use 5W-30 dino and all are changed at 5,000 miles my choice over the years.The Cougar uses 10W-30 Valvoline VR-1 since it has a performance cam and 120 lb. spring...