Auto Maintenance

Car Maintenance You Can Do at Home

For an automobile, waiting at the mechanicis like any one of us waiting at the doctor’s office. You can arrive on time, sign your name and fill out the paperwork, but hours and hours could go by before you even have a chance to see the doctor, and then it’s only for a few minutes while you get results to a test you’ve already completed. 

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Your car knows your pain, except it must wait for days and days out in the elements, solitary in a crowded parking lot with other disgruntled cars, no idea of when help will come.

Don’t do that to your car. There are plenty of simple things you can do at home in your own garage that the mechanic will charge you an arm and a leg for, if it gets fixed at all. All it takes is the right automotive equipment. Then you won’t have to wait at the doctor’s office to fix that arm and leg you lost.

• Perhaps the easiest thing you can do to skip the biannual mechanic visit is to get a tire changer. Don’t worry about making that appointment to switch the winter tires to the summer tires, just keep them on hand and do it yourself. You may even open a new obsession and get yourself a set of mud tires, snow tires, rain tires…

• The single thing we send our cars to the mechanic for is a simple oil change. It could take 15 minutes if done by the right person, but that’s after the car waits in line for a long, long time.

And besides, changing oil is something everyone should know how to do. Now it’s even easier with the advent of at-home car lifts, efficient tools that will help you reach the hard-to-get-at places on your auto without breaking your knees or back.

They come in a variety of styles, including the strongest and most durable 4 post design. It’s so strong that you can trust parking another car underneath the lifted car. And hey, you just doubled your available parking space.

• If you’ve got it in mind to put together your own little workshop so you can skip the mechanic for the rest of your days, take heed of these few items that will separate the vets from the newbies: a shop heater (cold fingers make for clumsy work), a battery tester and charger (don’t be late for work!), and a solid wet/dry vac (because a messy shop means a messy job).

Now go, become the mechanic you always wanted your real mechanic to be.

Remove License Plates Off of Car?

How do you remove the license plate off of an automobile? I got a new license plates and I need to switch the new ones with the old ones. I just don’t know how to get them off. I never work on cars for do any of that and I am a girl. Not saying that girls can’t work on cars I’m just saying I can’t. So how do I remove the license plates off of my car?

Type of Oil to Run in Elantra?

My hyundai elantra is a 4 cylinder motor. I’m wondering what kind of oil I should put in my car. I’m a girl in my dad told me to check the oil and it is low.
I called in this your current oil to put in it but he doesn’t know. Hitomi to check the oil cap but it says nothing on it. What type of oil can I run in this car?

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3m Body Undercoat Spray

I’m looking for a good undercoating for the body of my car. I’ve heard that 3m makes a really good product for good adhesion wise and such. Its a lot more money versus the cheaper brand at fleet farm around here but I’m not sure what product I should buy.

Do you guys think that this undercoating stuff is all the same or so you think the 3m brand is worth the extra money? I need a little help here since I’m just a poor student. My underbody is rusting on my car and I need undercoat spray asap.