I've seen an odd looking motorcycle in the area over the past few weeks. It has three wheels, one in the back and two in the front. I got a good look at it cornering the other day. It appears to have some sort of front suspension linkage that keeps both front wheels on the ground and parallel to...

First, happy new year all! I am not very mechanically knowledgeable and will have to have the car towed to the shop asap, but maybe someone can help tell me what is happening. Car is a 91 Ford Escort Wagon, automatic, 89,000 miles. Recent service includes new brake shoes, new gasket on master...

A little puzzled by this one. A miss problem that I thought I had fixed came back. Last summer our 2000 Contour Sport V6 (2.5L, 5-speed, 60K miles) developed a miss with an intermittent Check Engine Light. I took it to the local AutoZone and had the codes read, and it was a misfire in cylinder...

I have a 2005 Escape Limited. What a dissapointment. I have had this for 6 months and it is a major gas guzzler. I realize that SUV's are generally gas hogs, but the EPA rating for this vehicl is about 17 mpg city, 22, Highway. My wife drives this around town and gets about 15 mpg. It gets...

There seems to be many companies and dealers that sell Honda parts online, but I am looking for one that sells more than just the standard stuff. For example, I need a replacement part for my 97 accord that is a module consisting of a plastic framed piece with the integrated door handle and power...

Toyota’s chief test driver, Hiromu Naruse, died in a head-on collision on Wednesday in Germany, the newspaper Rhein-Zeitung reports. The story was picked up by Autoblog. A Toyota spokesman, Wade Hoyt, confirmed that Mr. Naruse, 67, had been killed in the crash. According to Rhein-Zeitung, the...

Awl -- I recently became aware that fuel injector cleaner is basically kerosene..... !! It's also clear that alcohol is freely mixible in gasoline. In fact, http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol45/mono45-8.pdf indicates a wide variety of stuff in gasoline, including aromatics (like...

I'm a young driver, I know some but not a lot about cars. I got a celica about 3 months ago. It has 150K miles ago, the owner said he had to add a quart every once in a while..and we believed him..apparently were idiots. The car drives perfectly, I am very happy with its performance but I have had...

I would like to install a kill switch on a 2000 Honda Accord LX. In the past (with 80s model cars), I have simply connected a circuit breaker to the active terminal of the battery. However, as I recall for those days, the battery wires were pretty thin (like 12 gauge). So I could just use 12 gauge...

Assuming the coolant level is fine, what would cause the heater to only put out hot air at highway speeds? This is a 1990 3.1 L Chevy with 200 + thousand miles on it. I replaced the heater core 9 months ago, the radiator was done this week by a shop. When I got the car back from the shop, it no...

Seems to me that the new automatic stability systems may reduce maneuverability. What do you guys think? Do they sense angular rate, or lateral Gs, or both?

Work = Force X Distance. So obviously it takes more force to drive faster in a car, and the same distance is traveled regardless of how fast you are going. So if we reduce the speed limits we will save money and gas!!!!

'99 Cav 4-dr. I have to replace the gas tank. The book says "Remove the heat shield." Most of the fasteners therein are a little hard to make out - they're sort of truss-head things, with a small cavity in cap. They kind of look like rivets, but I'd think they'd say "drill out the f***ing...

HI everyone my misses just got back from the shop and says the car is running sluggish. Also loss of power and when i looked underneith because i thought i could here the exhaust blowing god damn the exhaust at the front end of the car is glowing red hot is this normal i think not but can anyone...

Does anyone know how difficult it is to replace a ac condenser unit on a Dodge Grand Caravan 2001?? Thanks for any info!! -- xrayeyes2u ------------------------------------------------------------------------ xrayeyes2u's Profile:...

We have a 2004 Toyota with a factory installed car alarm. The alarm goes off randomly. Sometimes a few times a day, some days not at all. No physical disturbance is setting it off (it does it even sitting in our closed garage). However, we noticed that it seems to happen when my daughter's cell...

Hi group: I've been considering purchasing an old Geo Metro for commuting purposes because of the good gas mileage it gets. When I looked at a 1997 Geo Metro offered for sale in my area by a private party, he told me that he owned the car about 6 months and when he acquired it, he had to put a...

Hello, I have been searching to find info on this problem. The car is a Mitsubishi Space Star 1.3 16 V 1999. Normal consumption averaged 6.2 l / 100 km. After a while, but suddenly, fuel consumption lowered, starting at 5 l to even 4 l / 100 km. And this on average and instantaneous rate. A fill...

I also have a 95 f150 4.9. Its on the passenger side near the firewall right in between the intake manifold and exhaust manifold. You can get to it if you turn the wheels all the way to the left and get to it through the wheel well. I'm not a small guy and was just barely able to get to it. One...

I'd search for it but don't know how to properly describe it so the googs knows what I want... basically I would like to install a rearview mirror with the compass/temp display in my old Jeep. (there was an optional overhead console, but it's rare and expensive.) I need a couple connectors to...