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No matter how low or modded your car may be, we all know the sound: that scraping, grinding noise of plastic on asphalt or concrete. Not only does it make everyone in the car cringe, it also does damage, sometimes significant, to the underside of your front or rear bumpers.

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Your car’s head gasket probably never comes to mind until something goes wrong. Since this is the piece that is between your cylinder heads and the cylinder block, it’s a fairly vital part that doesn’t need too much attention until there is a crack, which can cause some leaking.

Possibly the strangest promo we’ve seen in a while, valid only through October 6th, Sears.com is practically giving away this massive tool set, though it’s not quite as clean-cut as that.

If you don’t have a tire pressure monitoring system built into your car, you’d better make sure there’s a tire gauge in your glovebox (and that you actually know how to use it).

There’s no greater satisfaction than when you’ve just done something all by yourself, which is why so many car owners love getting their hands dirty by working on their car themselves.

While we’re on the theme of   VW décor, we’d like to introduce you to a piece that will have your kids begging to go to sleep — it’s the Volkswagen Bus-inspired bed.

Any car owner that has worked on their own vehicle knows what a Haynes manual is. The company has helped educate people working on their own cars for over fifty years. Now Haynes has stepped up to enter the digital age by uploading the manuals on the internet.