Come take a look at these hot new products in the 2008 European Car Magazine Buyer's Guide.
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Come take a look at these hot new products in the 2008 European Car Magazine Buyer's Guide.
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The Latest Great Stuff For Your Driving Life
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See how Berryman's Green Stuff Absorbent is making clean up an easy job.
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Every shop worth its Snap-On(r) calendar has a collection of tools of mass destruction-chisels, pry bars, saws, hammers, BFHs-if it can be used to move, remove or break something, it will be needed sooner or later. To build a car, one must first take a car apart. Sometimes a part of the car one does
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Starr Products Back-Tap
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I believe that casual, amateur workers are more likely to injure themselves than professionals for several reasons. They often don't receive proper training in safe practices and equipment use. Most learn just enough about the tools and materials they work with to achieve their immediate objective.
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There are certain tools that are considered nice-to-have items right up until they are necessary. Then you're screwed. Retaining ring pliers, or snap ring pliers, are one of them. I've gotten away with using sharp picks, small screwdrivers and needle-nose pliers to remove and install snap rings for
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Threaded fasteners are a necessity for almost any mechanical device. When making changes to a machine, one can add threads by tapping the part itself, or by using a nut. A nut can even be welded to a part when tapping it is inconvenient or impractical. Sometimes, the material being fastened to is to
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The world would be a far less efficient place without Vise-Grip locking pliers. A Danish immigrant blacksmith named William Petersen patented the concept in 1924 and started a family business that lives on as part of Irwin Industrial Tool Company, a worldwide organization with a wide brand portfolio
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It takes a better writer than me to put romance into having coolant running down your arm at 1:00 a.m. on a Saturday, with the knowledge that several of your friends have already gathered in Las Vegas and are doubtless enjoying themselves while introducing other, slightly less poisonous organic comp
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One-Man Brake Bleeder
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Precision Instruments Split Beam Torque Wrench
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This tool alloys you to keep your wheels in tip shape and not scratch the thing coating while installing the lug nuts - European Car Magazine
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OK, I finally did it. I've had new BMW motorcycles, but in May I bought my first new BMW car, a special order 2005 325Ci in Jet Black with Natural Brown leather, brushed aluminum interior trim, five-speed manual gearbox, sport package, and xenon headlights. In black, the E46 coupe manages to be both
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Track junkies-we all know them, and many of us are them. It starts with a few driving schools or maybe autocross events, progresses to driving schools that are farther away, and sometimes winds up as a full-blown racing sideline or even a career. Along the way, and in fact very early along the way,
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Before you laugh, go out and try to find a good gas can. If you've tried to buy a basic gas can lately, you've encountered a harsh reality of our dumbed-down world, which is that high quality stuff is very scarce. Quality steel construction has been replaced by cheap plastic everywhere we turn. Even
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Unless you live in Southern California, you've probably experienced the grief and aggravation of trying to find a body shop that is willing to perform small paintwork jobs on your ride. If you're into restoration, getting a shop to properly corrosion protect and paint the backsides of replacement fe
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Some of you have mentioned many "Tools of the Month" are rather pricey for the average sometimes do-it-yourselfer, and we agree. It costs money to have a home shop. But it costs more money to pay a professional. In deference to our beloved readers, though, we've found a truly useful tool for less th
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Automotive elitists really like to ridicule carburetors. "A barely controlled fuel leak," some of them like to say. Maybe so, but when fuel injection debuted on European cars back in the 1970s, carburetors seemed warm and familiar like Mom's apple pie in the face of three horrifying letters: CIS.
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Heavy shop equipment-stuff like air compressors, big bench vices, parts washers and hydraulic presses-is what separates the serious home shop gearhead from the dabblers in our ranks. It isn't for everyone, being in that first group, and it's not cheap. First, you need a garage, which unfortunately e
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"A garbage can?" you think. "Miller must be running out of tools..."
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SK G-Pro WrenchesWhen someone lent me a set of SK G-Pro Wrenches to try out, frankly I was skeptical. I've been working on BMWs-usually out of necessity and rarely for profit-for more than 20 years. During that time, I've accumulated a heapin' helpin' of metric wrenches.
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SK Torque WrenchesThe remnants of an exhaust system dangled beneath the ancient bumperless BMW as a clean-cut kid approached the grizzled shop owner. "Sir, I'd be willing to work for you if I could use some tools to fix my car," the kid said, "I won't take too long, and I'm a good worker."
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It was winter 1996. The outside temperature was hovering at a balmy 10F; the shop doors were closed. A nasty old propane-fired heater kept me toasty warm, its vent plumbed through a cut-out coffee can into an old cast-iron chimney spouting 40 ft over the 100-year-old residential garage. Years ago th
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