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TCC Team
Q--I've got a ‘97 Pontiac Grand Am, and the check engine light is on. I stopped at AutoZone to have them plug their diagnostic tool up to my car and see why the engine light is on, but they couldn't get it to ...
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Paul Eisenstein, Executive Editor
The “Europeanization” of General Motors’ Saturn brand is effectively complete with Wednesday’s formal launch of the new Astra small car. Offered in both three- and five-door packages, the new Saturn is ...
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Bengt Halvorson, Editor
On its Detroit show stand, Subaru introduced substantially revised versions of its Legacy and Outback lines for 2008, with extensive, albeit minor changes throughout in both models. Both have a new winged ...
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Douglas Flint, Editor
I was working on a basic ’97 Ford F-150 last week. It was powered by the mediocre 4.2-liter V-6 engine, rather than the mighty 4.9-liter in-line six that used to make a Ford six-cylinder truck better than ...
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Douglas Flint, Editor
As the Wehrmacht bears down on Moscow, Russia ’s oldest, most reliable soldier, General Winter, comes to her rescue. The sudden drop to sub-zero temperature has caused the German machinery ...
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Douglas Flint, Editor
Mechanic’s Tale: The Big Cat by Douglas Flint (8/21/2006)I fell in love with a machine — and lost. More Mechanic's Tales from Doug Flint The advent of cheap electronics in the late ...
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Douglas Flint, Editor
Somewhere, somehow, you may have gotten the impression that mechanics are sexist pigs with pictures of scantily clad women adorning their tool boxes and bathrooms, secretly or not so secretly ogling every ...
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Bengt Halvorson, Editor
More Car Shopping Tips from TCC We’ve all heard them — the alarms going off for no apparent reason, cycling back and forth through the same pattern of beeps and shrieks and siren wails, seemingly all day ...