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How to Install a Tire-Pressure Monitoring System When this warning lamp illuminates on your instrument panel, at least one of your tires is 25 percent below its correct pressure.   |
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February 2004
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Wiring Your Trailer Hitch Wiring a trailer may not be easy. If you're towing just for the day and don't ever plan to tow again, you can pick up some adapters that replace the taillight bulbs in your vehicle and have pigtailed wires hanging from them. |
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May 2002
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Tire Maintenance Any kind of tire failure -- even a simple flat -- is a huge hassle. But this can be avoided with careful tire maintenance... |
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May 2008
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13 Must-Know Tricks to Max Out Your Road-Trip MPGs There are quite a number of things you can do to improve fuel economy. |
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August 7, 2008
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Obama's Call for Tire Inflation to Beat Gas Crunch: Reality Check A single tire that's underinflated by 10 psi costs about 3.3 percent of your fuel economy. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2006
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Repairing Electrical Wiring How to identify and fix a short circuit in your car. |
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May 2007
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Don't Shred Your Tires With a Pressure Washer: Car Care Tip Clean freaks beware! Car and tire manufacturers recommend against using pressure washers to clean the sidewalls of car or truck tires. |
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October 17, 2008
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Top 10 Trailer-Towing Tips: Mechanic's Diary Don't confuse driving your car or truck with towing a trailer. The skill set overlaps only slightly. |
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January 2009 |
How To Tell When a Wheel, Not a Tire, is Leaking Why some of today's alloy wheels leak air... Why passenger-side mirrors heat up more slowly than the driver's side... Why you should avoid downshifting unnecessarily... |
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July 2, 2009
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Are Consumer-Friendly, Fuel-Economy-Focused Tire Labels Finally Here?: Analysis The NHTSA hasn't finalized the content or form of the label yet, but they should give consumers an apples-to-apples comparison for shopping. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2006
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What's Going on Back There? Easy way to check and maintain your trailer lights... Bent car valves caused by revving the engine... Sharing gas car to car... Autumn leaves around your windshield... Cellphone interference with your car's speakers... etc. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2002
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Today's Tuneup/Version 2002 While it has changed significantly -- even in the last seven or eight years -- the concept of a tuneup itself is anything but gone. |
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January 2007
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Saturday Mechanic: Servicing Tapered Wheel Bearings Unlike sealed wheel bearings, the front wheel bearings found on a typical rear-wheel-drive car or truck employ two-piece caged bearing assemblies. How to clean and repack these bearings in this step-by-step slide show. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2000
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Replacing Your Fuel Pump If there's anything over 60,000 miles on the odometer, but more commonly 100,000 plus, there's a good chance that the cause of this distressing no-start condition is an electric fuel pump that's no longer capable of forcing fuel forward with sufficient pressure... |
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November 2006
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Saturday Mechanic: Changing a Tire You know how to fix a flat, right? But now might be a good time to try it on your current car, with the tools supplied -- just in case |
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July 2008
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How to Use an Auto Scan Tool: Saturday Mechanic Use this tool to determine the reason why the check engine light in your car turned on. |
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September 2005 |
Saturday Mechanic - Keeping Your Windshield Clean Time to tune up the washers and wipers? Here are a batch of things to try, depending on what part of the system isn't doing its job. |
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October 2008 |
100 Skills Every Man Should Know: The Instructions (With Videos!) From auto repair to outdoor survival skills to cooking, sewing, and using tools -- things men should know. |
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November 2007 |
How to Stop Your Car From Squeaking: Saturday Mechanic Suspension and steering joints wear out -- and ultimately fail -- when unlubricated metal-to-metal contact erodes bushings and bearing surfaces, much like 40-grit sandpaper on a wooden table. So let's nip this degradation in the bud. |
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September 2008
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Your Guide to Upgrading Wheels & Tires: Saturday Mechanic Provide better grip for your car without compromising your vehicle's original engineering. |
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Preparing Your Car For A Road Trip Whether you plan on visiting Africa coast-to-coast or simply want to do a pilgrimage on Route 66, your car needs to be up to snuff. |
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November 2000
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Replacing Spark Plug Wires Inexpensive boot pliers allow you to remove stuck plug wires without damage... |
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March 2008
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How to Run Your Car on E85 Ethanol: Auto Clinic How to convert your vehicle to a flex-fuel system. |
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April 2004
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Repairing Windshield Washers Your windshield washers are a valuable safety system on your car or truck. And like other automotive systems, this one can require a little maintenance. |
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February 2009
Mike Allen |
Is Nitrogen Better than Air in Car Tires? Inflating your tires with pure nitrogen offers several advantages for your car. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2006
Jay Leno |
An Art Form Lost Owner's manuals once were more than a collection of warnings and cautions. They used to enhance ownership. |
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Install a Bigger, Faster Hard Drive One of the most popular upgrade projects, step by step... |
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April 7, 2009 |
How to Banish Basement Pipe Problems The way water comes in and goes out of the home is one of those processes we take for granted -- until we can't take a shower or make the toilet flush properly. |
