Starting a shop and managing it to the big leagues require very different skills. Odds are you don’t have both, and that’s okay.
Watch as Lemmy demonstrates the fastest, easiest way to remove a Woodruff key using a common tool that might surprise you. Give it a try next time!
There’s no magic bullet, but sometimes one or two answers is the difference between pass and fail.
Life can’t all be brake jobs and pre-delivery inspections. Beating time is the name of the game, but it doesn’t always work out. Watch as a few Dorman mechanics talk about the jobs that make more sweat than bread in this video.
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Shop Press photographer Mike Apice recently visited Indiana, exploring the local scene and a few repair shops. Here’s a bit of what he saw behind his lens.
Do rising car prices portend rising service life?
Like corded phones, floppy disks and TVs with antennas, the Check Engine icon doesn’t make sense anymore. Let’s change it.
Our photographer Mike Apice was recently visiting a Dorman facility in Portland, Tennessee, when he stopped in to a small repair shop in nearby Cross Plans. Here’s a look inside.
My new Explorer ST goes like a scalded dog. Ford’s Performance Driving School taught me how to avoid getting bitten.
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Auto care news and advice you can use.
Lemmy tries out the cheapest lab scope available on Amazon.
When released from captivity, these things will give ya a case of the spins.
Rust-resisting stainless steel cars are back. Will they have better success than their predecessors?
I was raised in times and places where it was considered a mark of pride to get the job done, no matter the risk to your own body. That, friends, is bunk.
In my salvage yard days, I learned a trick I still use today that’s the fastest method in the world, hands down.
Largely supercar fare, wild points of entry have no shortage of variety.
A shop foreman who did it for a year gained some firsthand experience that might help you answer the question.
I really hope the whole week doesn’t go like this.
