#DIY

On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we have actually used or purchased with our own meagre income. After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories.

Tucking into a DIY job out in the garage can be both a good and bad thing – it only takes one snapped bolt to turn a 30-minute job into a three-day ordeal.

On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we have actually used or purchased with our own meagre income. After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories.

Anyone fortunate enough to have an enclosed space in which to wrench on their ride probably has an overhead garage door, especially if yer out in the ‘burbs with a single-family home. Automatic garage door openers are ubiquitous in those environments – but there are a few accessories one can add to improve convenience and make life a little bit easier.

On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we have actually used or purchased with our own meagre income. After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories.

Pairing well with last week’s missives in Stuff We Use, in which we talked about impact wrenches, are air compressors. While we know this type of item isn’t likely to be the very first thing gearheads add to their arsenal of tools, it is often on the list as a planned purchase at some point down the road.

On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we have actually used or purchased with our own meagre income. After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories.

There are a number of names for this tool depending on to whom one speaks – impact wrench, torque gun, faster blaster – but despite that, there is one title on which just about everyone will agree: incredibly useful.

On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we have actually used or purchased with our own meagre income. After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories.

On this instalment of Stuff We Use, you’re going to get a lesson in etymology on top of some tool recommendations for your garage stash.

On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we have actually used or purchased with our own meagre income. After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories.

Now, before you accuse us of getting soft and going Hollywood, know that this post isn’t going to reference the types of garagemahals generally associated with having a 90-inch flatscreen broadcasting F1 races and Barrett-Jackson coverage 24/7 whilst the moneyed one-percent mill about their gazillion-dollar collector cars.

On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we have actually used or purchased with our own meagre income. After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories.

Just about everyone who toils at this publication have worked on a vehicle equipped with the so-called OBD-II diagnostic system. Given the tendencies of our readership, it is a reasonable to imagine many of our readers have done this as well. Having a handheld OBD-II code reader in yer box of tools can be a lifesaver – or at least douse that infernal check engine light.

In our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we have actually used or purchased with our own meagre income. After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories and tools.

This instalment of Stuff We Use tackles a product which is a mite more expensive than the shop rags and ratchet sets we’ve covered in the past. While a gasoline-powered generator is definitely an investment, there have been more than a few times in which it has made the lives of gearheads infinitely easier – and saved their bacon.

On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we have actually used or purchased with our own meagre income. After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories.

Wrenching on one’s own car is a delight to some, a necessary evil to others. Most gearheads fall into the former category – except for that time a snapped bolt turned an hour’s job into a three-day ordeal – meaning the majority of eyeballs on this website could stand to increase the amount of illumination in their workspace.

On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we have actually used or purchased with our own meager income. After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories.

Anyone who has the space to work on their own rig knows that, at some point or another in the maintenance of a car (which, in our case, are generally terrible but tremendous hoopties), electricity will be required for something. Whether that’s to illuminate a corded worklight, a power tool which doesn’t have a battery, or another item entirely, the presence of a household electrical outlet will eventually be extremely handy.

Except, of course, it’s waaayyy over there. And the last extension cord you had got mangled by the whipper snipper and was overloaded anyway. What to do?