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SAM is looking for a few good OBD II ports

For those of us who like to service our own cars, being able to retrieve the OBD-II codes is important. There are various readers on the market, with some more capable than others. Of course, once the codes are retrieved, you need to know how to interpret them. The common misconception is that the on-board diagnostics will tell you exactly what's wrong. The truth is, codes may be set that call out a particular component or system which are symptoms, not causes. To really get to the root of the problem, you need to interpret the information ... Read more →

Classic prank: Preying on the naive auto owner John Neff

In high school my best friend and I convinced his sister that the sphincter valve on her car was broken and leaking blinker fluid all over the driveway. She freaked and offered us money to drive it up ...

Toolkit upgrades - some simple things we find handy Dan Roth

We've all got the standard wares of the trade: wrenches (open end and box), sockets (inch, metric, regular and deep), various and sundry screwdrivers, etc. Those things are expected when building a ...

Nostalgia - Flexstones and Flatheads Dan Roth

With it getting colder here in New England, us Yankee Autobloggers have to prepare for winter. This often entails a final running of the yard equipment, just today I mulched the rest of the leaves ...

Master Mechanics vote for 3,000-mile oil change interval John Neff

In a survey conducted by Valvoline, sixty-percent of ASE certified Master Automobile technicians questioned said that a vehicle's oil should be changed every 3,000 miles. Twenty-nine percent said ...

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Audi headlight switch recalled again 3 years ago on Autoblog

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued a recall this week on the 1998-2000 Audi A6. This recall is interesting, though, because it's on the fix of another recall. The first one (recall 0413000) was issued on a faulty headlight switch. However, Audi technicians could, ...

Home Depot to sell auto parts 3 years ago on Autoblog

10 Home Depot stores in Florida are on an auto parts test run for America's largest home-improvement retailer. The stores each have about 500 square feet chock-full of auto parts at discount prices, undercutting competitors by more than 20 percent in some cases. The company ...

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Chris, Editor Paukert, and Dan send the Podcast off for the Christmas holiday in proper fashion

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