Picture This So you’re running errands, minding your own business. You happen to glance at your dash and see that the oil life is -50%. You’re a responsible car owner, and you maintain your own oil. So you know it’s past time to change it. You can take your car home...
If you change your own oil, you don’t get those handy little stickers that remind you when to change it again. That’s no reason to go to the oil change shop though. The oil shop is all about the upsell. You’re never sure they are using the best oil for your car....
Is it bad to charge your phone in your car? Well it could be. Imagine that you’ve got a bucket and you put the bucket in the sink and turn the water on. The bucket represents your battery. The water in the bucket represents how much power is in the battery, and...
gas pump Can you save money buying premium gas? Well you know what premium gas is. It’s the gasoline that has the highest number on the gas pump and I talked about what those numbers mean in another video. So can you save money with premium? Well, not really....
Big Red SUV My car died. The timing chain failed at 100,000 miles. I had just paid it off. I couldn’t afford to have it repaired at the shop, so I decided to replace the engine myself. First, I had to track down the official service manual, then a rebuilt...
new engine So it turns out that engine replacement is part of maintaining a Crossover SUV. But what other options do you have if you’ve got more than two children? A minivan is too small. Everything else is too ugly. And the Crossovers are very expensive and...
