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.- 366
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How to Transport a Used Engine | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo A lot of cars can handle more payload than you might think…- 364
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A New Set of Wheels Got Me Falling in Love With My Fiat 500 Abarth All Over Again | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo The car’s standard wheels didn’t have many good tire options, so I had to upgrade. I wasn’t mad.- 364
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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.- 363
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Prepping My Car for Sale Went So Wrong That I Ended up Keeping the Thing | Autance
YearsAgo Update: YearsAgo On the plus side, I still have a fun car to drive.- 362
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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.- 359
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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.- 358
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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.- 352
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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.- 350
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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.- 344
