A Little Vibration Turned Into a Big Lesson in My Cheap Fiat Abarth | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo I assumed that maybe I needed to learn how to drive the car better. But, no… the car was just broken.- 297
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How to See if Your Old Car Has Keyless Entry You Didn’t Know About | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo If you have an older secondhand car and wish it had keyless entry, it actually might already.- 296
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Eight Longest-Lasting Vehicles for 2023 | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo The year 2020 will be a great year for Japanese cars, as most of them will continue to be popular…- 295
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Adding Cruise Control Can Be an Easy Way To Make a Cheap Car Better | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo A Yaris is a better car than you might think, and even the basic model can benefit from light modification.- 295
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Where I Find Therapeutic Joy in Menial Car Maintenance | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo There’s deep joy in small, menial tasks.- 293
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My First Trip in the $800 Daewoo Involved Building a Makeshift Power Steering Line on the Side of the Road | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo Despite some hardships this cheap orphan car did make it home. And soon, it will be racing.- 282
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A Junkyard’s Price List Can Let You Know if a Car Is Reliable | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo While I’m doing the math to see if a car’s worth restoring and re-selling, I use Car-Part’s national database of junkyards to see what parts cost.- 277
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I Almost Had to Re-Install My Subaru Outback’s Engine Twice | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo Knocking is usually very bad.- 272
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Why You Should Understand Roll Center Before Lowering Your Car | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo You’ll often hear “lower center of gravity” as a benefit of lowering a car. In reality, messing with geometry is a little more complicated.- 272
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Replacing My Subaru Outback’s AC Compressor Was Hard but Saved Me a Lot of Money | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo Air conditioning repair can end up being very expensive (it rarely “just needs a recharge”) so I decided to try and do it myself.- 266
