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How to Hang Onto a Tricky Nut or Bolt (VIDEO)

Description Having trouble hanging onto a nut or bolt, especially in a part of the vehicle with minimal access or tight corners? Try these tips and tricks for keeping fasteners where you want them during installation.Related Videos

Brake Fluid Exchanges: Are You Missing a Critical Step?

Brakes are dang important! Because of that, so is their maintenance. We, as techs, know this, but the humble brake fluid flush is one of the first things motorists strike from recommended maintenance (aided, at times, by timid service writers who don’t care to risk...

Is Your DVOM Ready for Work? (VIDEO)

Description Dorman Training Center instructor Pete Meier explains how to check the battery and fuses in your DVOM/multimeter to make sure that it’s ready to go for your next job.  Related Videos

A Brighter Future: The History and Evolution of Car Headlights

Every piece of a car’s puzzle shapes its identity: exterior design, performance, power, technology, or the badge on the hood. What’s easy to overlook is how these components have evolved over time. Every part of a vehicle has its own history of innovation, all the way...

Boost Isn’t New! A History of Turbocharged Cars

It seems every automaker has jumped on the forced induction bandwagon over the last decade. While some say there is no replacement for displacement, a turbocharged engine makes a pretty good argument to the contrary. Turbocharging is hardly new, though. You can read...

How to install a brake cable slack eliminator (VIDEO)

How to install a brake cable slack eliminator (VIDEO)

How to install a brake cable slack eliminator (VIDEO) Description If your parking brake is weak or not working at all, a stretched cable is usually the issue. The Dorman 03006 parking brake slack eliminator is a quick and easy way to restore brake function. Related...
Test fuses without removal! (VIDEO)

Test fuses without removal! (VIDEO)

Test fuses without removal! (VIDEO) How to test for blown fuses in a car or truck | Fast and easy method Description Checking fuses is one of the most basic (and important!) tests you’ll use when diagnosing a vehicle’s electrical system. Most cars and trucks on the...
The surreal appeal of steel wheels

The surreal appeal of steel wheels

By some estimations, steel wheels should have faded into obscurity about two decades ago. That’s based solely on my highly unscientific and not-at-all-researched memory of when the used hub cap shop in Downers Grove, Illinois, closed its doors for good. Nothing left...
There really are a ton of automotive door styles

There really are a ton of automotive door styles

The Shop Press team was sitting around jawing the other day about the history of the term “suicide doors.” I read a number of explanations, but none were very satisfactory. During my cursory research, however, I did start noting the rather large number of door styles...