To inspire the next generation of service technicians and tradespeople, start by getting their hands off their phones and onto building something cool.

Door striker bolts became known as Nader pins after “Unsafe at Any Speed” caused a national uproar and led to the first FMVSS rules.
Several speed records were once set on the beach of Cape May, New Jersey
If your waiting room stinks, so does waiting in it.
Auto care news and advice you can use.
The Proving Grounds crew is back again for a new grudge match in the garage called The Mystery Box.
Convenience is king for independent shops, EV owners love dealerships, car materials are changing, and more.
What are the essentials you recommend every motorist keep on board?
Apple recently announced they are fully discontinuing the iPod, a product that is possibly the greatest way to listen to music in your car, ever.
An unfair and unbalanced review of different ways to make electrical connections.
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Auto care news and advice you can use.
A shop foreman who did it for a year gained some firsthand experience that might help you answer the question.
Tip #1: stop calling it a “brake job.”
There are literally thousands of wiper-related patents, stretching over a century, and we’re still looking to build better designs today.
Nick and Lemmy, Dorman employees and mechanics, took a gander at a few internet videos and did their best at diagnosing via the Internet.
What to do if grease is going everywhere but where you want it.
The right-to-repair issue is so pressing for farm equipment that someone hacked a tractor to draw attention to it.
Over-the-air (OTA) microtransactions could be seen as a benefit to customers, but lack of communication thus far is not creating that perception.
The Polaris Slingshot and eight other vehicles that make you ask, “What’s the deal with that?”