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Add or Delete These Simple Parts to Help Customers Save Money

Use it or lose it. Looking for an easy way to win over your customers that they’ll enjoy every time they drive? Look at their vehicles from a hypermiler’s perspective.

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How to find a good auto repair shop, according to actual repair professionals (VIDEO)

There’s lot of advice out there about how to choose a reliable mechanic. We asked mechanics what they would advise.

The worst cars are the best classrooms

They don’t build ‘em like they used to, and that’s a shame.

What are the sockets and wrenches you can do without?

There are definitely useless sizes. Or are there?

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Auto care news and advice you can use.

The very best way to remove grease from auto upholstery

This surefire solution really stinks.

5 unconventional brake job tips

Tip #1: stop calling it a “brake job.”

Windshield wipers have had a surprisingly messy evolution

There are literally thousands of wiper-related patents, stretching over a century, and we’re still looking to build better designs today.

Mechanics React: Can you diagnose a vehicle’s problem just from the sound? (VIDEO)

Nick and Lemmy, Dorman employees and mechanics, took a gander at a few internet videos and did their best at diagnosing via the Internet.

Quick tip for greasing clogged fittings

What to do if grease is going everywhere but where you want it.

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