How to Find Car Paint Color

Your car's paint will fade eventually, even with the best care. The sun, road salt and time all fade paint, while road debris and people...

Can You Put Fiberglass Over a Body Filler?

The term "fiberglass" refers to a composite material that contains polyester resins reinforced with glass fiber. "Body filler...

How to Choose the Oil and Fluids for a Chevy Avalanche

In production since 2001, the Chevy Avalanche comes in regular or heavy duty models and is unique among pickup trucks because its rear bed i...

How to Remove a 2005 Nissan Pickup Tail Light Cover

The taillight lens is part of a larger assembly that contains all the bulbs for the taillight, brake light, turn signal and backup lights on...

How to Prevent Mice in Blower Motors

Serious damage and large repair costs might be the result if a mouse crawls into your blower motor or builds a nest in it. Proven methods of...

How to Spray HVLP Lacquer

A professional gloss finish is moderately easy to achieve when HVLP lacquer is applied over a base color on automotive refinishing projects....

How to Replace a Lower Front Valance on the S-10

The front bumper assembly on a Chevrolet S-10 is made up of the steel bumper, and a plastic valance that sits underneath the steel bumper. T...

How to Adjust the Headlights in a Ford Focus

Ford recommends you take your Ford Focus to an authorized service station any time you need to adjust the headlights. While a service statio...

How to Replace a Headlight Bulb in a Ford F-Series

The Ford F-Series of pickup trucks provides vehicles in light-duty, heavy-duty and super-duty levels. Whatever the size or function of your ...

How to Install Body Panels on a Chevy Truck

Whether you're restoring a truck back to its former glory, or just putting it back together after an accident, installing body panels on...

How to Replace Your Turn Signal Relay in a Pontiac Bonneville

To keep your Pontiac Bonneville in optimum working condition, it's necessary to perform routine repairs. Replacing a turn signal relay i...

How to Repair Car Fenders

If a fender on your car has been damaged, the amount of work to repair it will depend on the damage. The exact tools needed to repair a fend...

How to Replace the Ignition Coil in a Hyundai Santa Fe

The Hyundai Santa Fe uses a distributorless ignition system (DIS) in all its engine types. Without a distributor to host the ignition system...

How to Replace Emergency Brakes in a Nissan Sentra

The emergency brakes on your vehicle were originally used to stop it when the regular brakes failed. However, the brakes on a Nissan Sentra ...

How to Install Ford Truck Side Mirrors

If the side mirror on your Ford Truck is broken, then you will need to replace it or risk getting a ticket. After all, the mirror is respons...

How to Fill Out Auto Body Forms

At some point you will need to take your automobile into a car repair shop to have work done. Any body work done by a third-party auto-body ...

How to Remove a Gold Wing Fairing

The plastic panels mounted on a Honda Goldwing are called fairings. These fairings give the motorcycle its style and appeal, but also cover ...

How to Remove the Passenger Door From a Car

When a car is involved in a collision, the door can take a lot of the damage and may need to be replaced. Alternatively, if you want to repa...

How to Replace the Intake Manifold in a Geo Metro

The Geo Metro was plagued by a number of lemons, the model does have its loyal fans. The "roller skate" design is well known for f...

How to Replace the Springs in a Lincoln Navigator

The Lincoln Navigator is a full-size luxury SUV. The Navigator has load-leveling suspension with high performance springs. Replacing the spr...

How to Install a Passenger Side Mirror on a 1999 Chevy Cavalier

The 1999 Chevy Cavalier may have a manual side mirror or a power side mirror. If the Cavalier has a power side mirror, the procedure to inst...

How to Drop the Oil Pan in a Dodge Intrepid

The Dodge Intrepid is a four-door vehicle, full sized with front wheel drive. The car was in production between 1993 and 2004. The final gen...

How to Service a Rear-Window Defogger in a Chevy Impala

If winter comes around and your rear window defogger doesn't seem to be working, you may need to do some at-home service. The rear-windo...

How to Choose the Oil and Fluids for an Oldsmobile Alero

Produced only in model years 1999 through 2004, the Oldsmobile Alero was Oldsmobile's final compact car offering as well as the final ve...

How to Replace the Fuses in a Chevy Corvette

Chevy has changed the body style on the Corvette numerous times throughout the years. A blown fuse in any of these models can happen and is ...

How to Clean Acid Residue from Car Battery Terminals

As the battery in your car or light truck charges and discharges, it creates gases that escape through the vents in the top of the battery. ...

How to Troubleshoot Electric Door Locks

Many vehicles nowadays use the convenience of electric door locks, a security system that includes a solenoid or motor to move a locking and...

How to Install a Water Pump in a Mitsubishi Eclipse

The Mitsubishi Eclipse is small and has little space in which to pack all the car's parts. Removing the water pump connected to the comp...

How to Replace the Fuses in a Jeep Grand Cherokee

Changing a fuse in a Jeep Grand Cherokee is the same, no matter whether you have a 1999 model or older, the second generation 2000 through 2...

How to Change the Thermostat in a Mercury Cougar

The Mercury Cougar debuted in 1967 as a powerful pony car. Over the years, the Cougar by 2002 was discontinued, the only thing it had in com...

How to Block Sand Body Filler

Preparing a car body to be painted is one of the most tedious jobs of the entire process. Every low spot and dent must either be removed or ...

How Do I Change the Shocks on My Dodge Dakota?

You should change the shock absorbers on your Dodge Dakota truck at least every 50,000 miles, and you might need to change them sooner if yo...

How to Set Up an HVLP Paint Gun

HVLP spray guns, also known as gravity-fed spray guns, take practice to learn to set up properly, but once you learn how to do it, the proce...

How to Replace the Oil Pan Gasket in a Dodge Caravan

If you spot an oil puddle under the engine of your minivan, don't wait to take care of the problem, which may be a worn out oil pan gask...

How to Replace the Intake Manifold in a Dodge Intrepid

Dodge offered the Intrepid from 1993 through 2004, when it was retired. During its years on the market, it was a bestseller, owing to its fe...

How to Replace the Ignition Coil in a Toyota Tundra

Problems with your Tundra ignition coil interfere with the ability of your ignition system to perform. Symptoms include oil leaks, irregular...

How to Repair a Dodge Dakota Door Latch

If the door latch on your Dodge Dakota truck is broken or otherwise not working, it leads to a big problem. You need to repair the door by r...