Auto Repair and Maintenance: Keep Your Vehicle in Tip-Top Shape
Anyone who drives knows that auto maintenance and auto repair can be expensive and time-consuming. However, if you know where to look for auto repair and maintenance, there's a lot you can do on your own to save your car and your wallet. This Web guide highlights the best sites on the Web for do-it-yourself guides, advice from experts and fellow car owners, finding auto repair shops, and everything else you need to keep your car running and looking like it should.
Expand All Guide SectionsDo-It-Yourself Car Repair
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Find Auto Repair Shops
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Auto Maintenance
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Auto Maintenance and Repair Blogs and Forums
Drivers tend to take their cars very seriously: "Sure, my son graduated medical school today, but isn't that wax job the most wonderful thing you've ever seen?" If your car is a major source of passion and commitment in your life, visit the following sites to get connected to other auto enthusiasts through blogs and forums.
Dulcinea's Insight
- Found a blog you especially like? Try checking its blogroll, a list of links to other blogs usually found on the side of a blog's page. You may discover more reading that's worth your while.
- Many forums require that you register and create a username before posting anything. It's usually free.
- Go ahead and take advice and tips from many of these blogs-sharing useful, firsthand information is what they're all about. Before you take any irreversible measures, however, double-check to be sure that the advice you got is sound.
Dulcinea's Picks
For blogs all about car repair and maintenance ...
Auto Mechanic
is all about auto repair and maintenance. The posts are frequent, and they cover common issues associated with owning a car, like tire repair, radiator hose replacement, and taillight maintenance. The author writes catalogs for a prominent U.S. car manufacturer.
Free Auto Repair Advice
offers plenty of car repair know-how. The blog contains "wiring diagrams, TSBs, trim panel removal instructions ... everything you need to know to fix your car." The author is a retired ASE Master Auto Technician who writes an auto repair column each month for a consumer publication.
For car blogs that include repair and maintenance tips ...
Autoblog
thoroughly covers topics in the auto industry, often providing car repair and maintenance tips on topics such as changing brake pads; you'll also find reviews of new sites or gadgets in Autoblog's "maintenance" category. Looking for something specific? Click on "AutoNews" to see the new categories or "AutoTypes" to see a list of car manufacturers discussed on this blog.
RevMods
is about "Car Repair & Maintenance for Newbies, Auto News, Car Enthusiasm, Car Modifications and Anything Related To to Cars." In other words, there's a broad range of information on this blog. Visit repair and maintenance for posts about auto repair and maintenance, but stop by the "Categories" section on the right-hand side of the page for links to many other discussions.
For forums ...
Edmunds Carspace
offers this message board about car maintenance and repair. You'll find lots of categories and many posts; you may even discover that your question has been asked and answered already.
Automotive.com
provides this car maintenance forum where you can ask questions and view other postings. It can be difficult to find exactly what you are looking for here, however; although there are many different threads of conversation, they aren't organized very well.
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