Goss’ Garage

Pat Goss, MotorWeek's resident master technician, helps consumers understand car problems and how to speak the same language as their technician. As cars becoming increasingly complex, fewer repairs can be accomplished at home. Effective communication with a repair shop is vital to keeping consumer and operating costs under control. From rattles and squeaks to leaks and drips, Pat covers a myriad of issues designed to keep cars on the road and out of the repair shop.

Patch It Up

Since the very inception of steel bodies on automobiles, there has been one mortal enemy. And that is rust, especially rust through, structural rust and so on. Like on this classic Jeep we can see that the rocker panel is rusted, the dog leg is rusted. We need to replace these parts and of course for classics and collectibles, these parts are available, like this… Read More

Modern Stereos

The infotainment systems in modern cars are pretty amazing. Now why do we call them infotainment systems? Well info for information, tainment for the entertainment they give us. But they are very different from anything that we have had in the past. See in the past we had a radio, such as we have here. May have some features built into it, may have some auxiliary… Read More

Wheel Alignment

A phrase that I hear from lots of drivers all the time, I think my car needs a front wheel alignment. Alright well, does it really? See there’s more to a modern car than just a front wheel alignment. Now let’s see what we’re talking about. We have this little imitation car we’ve got the wheels properly aligned on it, we push it down the road and it goes straight.… Read More

Autonomous Maintenance

Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last 20 years then you have certainly heard terms like smart mobility, V to V, or vehicle to vehicle communication, or autonomous automobiles, and things like that. Well these are all things that are coming reality rather quickly, and as they become reality you are going to find that your vehicle may need some different… Read More

Death Wobble

This time I want to explain a common problem that we see on a lot of 4- wheel drive vehicles, and every once in a while on a passenger car; but especially on Jeeps, and the problem is what’s called a death wobble; and what this is you're going down the highway; you’re doing highway speed; you hit a bump; and all of a sudden the vehicle the steering wheel… Read More

TPMS

So you have a car that has a tire pressure monitoring system, or TPMS as we refer to them. And you think you can take your trusty tire pressure gauge and toss it in the trash. Not so. See TPMS only warns you if a tire is dangerously low on pressure. It doesn’t tell you the ideal pressure in most cases. So the only way to make sure you get proper tire life and gas… Read More

Handy Helpers

It’s been said clothes make the man, but I think when it comes to fixing cars tools make the man. Well here’s one that really works. You know the tie wraps you use to bundle wires and all sorts of things under the car? Well they’re always tough to get tight, so this tool from SnapOn, what this does is this tie wrap goes into the tool and it pulls the wrap up tight… Read More

Diamond in the Rough

So you’ve decided you want to buy a collectable or classic car and you want to check it out yourself. Number one, I would recommend against that. I’d recommend you have a professional do it, but if you insist here are some things you should look for. First you want to look at the general condition of the outside of the car and the interior, and that’s just… Read More

Ceramic Nano Coating

As automobiles have evolved, so have the finishes that go on them. Let’s face it, paints these days are much different than they were 15 or 20 years ago. And that means you may want to consider a more modern protection for your paint something line Nano technology. And to explain that to us we have Rob Freeman from Prof Form Auto. Rob welcome to Goss’ Garage. ROB… Read More

Cars That Sit

Most of us have some seasonal equipment or a custom vehicle, something that sits for long periods of time yet has an internal combustion engine. Well if you have that you have to take special care if you want to let it sit for any extended period of time without damage. First, is fresh oil. Oil picks up acids as its used, you don’t want those acids inside your… Read More