Technical

Dumb wheel direction question
This may sound silly but on a 1994 Dodge Caravan with the 3.0 engine and the automatic transmission are the drivers and passangers tires suppose to turn opposite directions when the vehicle is in Park? For example if the front of the vehicle was up on jack-stands and it was in Park and you turned the drivers wheel ... 8 Mar 2010 23:11

Toyota Provided No Evidence of Testing Electronic Throttle to US Congress
john <johngdole(a)hotmail.com> wrote in news:dda05086-d313-48c0-9402-9d8701c64b7a(a)g8g2000pri.googlegroups.com: Toyota seems to playing delay tactics and dodgeball. "The House Energy and Commerce Committee said Friday that documents provided by Toyota Motor Corp. didn't appear to rule out electronic de... 7 Mar 2010 18:31

honda accord hose kit
Hello, a few months ago, when I had gone to the dealer for some maitenance they had recommended to change the hoses for my accord 2001 (60k miles). at that time, they had suggested to get a hose kit that contains 9 hoses or so. Other than the 2 radiator hoses, where are the other 7 hoses located and their fun... 9 Mar 2010 12:24

electronic throttle
if you buy all this fear-mongering idiocy that electronic throttle is a problem, and that brakes, transmissions and ignition kill switches can all simultaneously fail causing a driver to lose control, it might be worth auto manufacturers of all stripes to adopt a slightly different implementation of electronic ... 24 Apr 2010 09:28

con ( Re: Go Green With a Homemade Electric Car - Top 3Reasons...
If you are not going to reuse the engine anyway, no big problem to strip off enough parts from the engine and remove it with Armstrong power. cuhulin ... 15 Mar 2010 07:55

Toyota blocks access to 'black box' data
That must be Toyota's way of taking the 5th! Before she died, the 5-foot-2, 125-pound woman told relatives she was practically standing with both feet on the brake pedal but could not stop the car from slamming into a building. Records confirm that emergency personnel found Grossman with both feet on the brake pe... 13 Mar 2010 16:32

Drivers report trouble with fixed Toyotas
Yeah, it's probably in the electronics. Mats and sticking pedals account for only 30% of the runaways. As I understand from the hearings, CTS pedals accounted for 0 fatality (all fatalities on Denso pedals). "About ten Toyota owners have complained to U.S. auto safety regulators that their vehicles suffered some... 5 Mar 2010 14:00

different gas, different gas mileage
I've always liked chevron gas because it has techroline, which is one of the best fuel detergents. But I've noticed lately that when I buy Chevron my 2009 PT seems to get about 2 - 3 mpg worse gas mileage. My other typical fill up is some "FastGas" type place. This change has happened often enough that I'm pret... 15 Mar 2010 20:47

GM recalls 1.3M Chevrolet, Pontiac cars.
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=284770 What Bob Celeste said. cuhulin ... 2 Mar 2010 14:44

GM announces Hummer sale can not be concluded, brand to be wound down
"fred" <fred(a)bedrock.rock> wrote in message Thank you Arnold for making a car you can't park anywhere drive anywhere except on roads for people to drive everywhere gobbling up gas everyone else could have used. Don't get me wrong, the Hummer 1 was quite probably the best off road vehicle in the wo... 1 Mar 2010 21:02