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.
Tricky Issues
GOSS: This time we’re going to get some interesting information from our online parts guru, Mr. Tom Taylor. Tom, welcome to Goss’ garage. TOM TAYLOR: Thanks for having me, pat GOSS: Alright, what did you bring here? TOM TAYLOR: Parts from several different systems that I thought your viewers would find interesting. This is the fuel pump assembly, cars have this in… Read More
Gas Issues
Have you noticed that even the most basic things that becoming complicated these days? Take fuel cans…you know from time to time you need to buy gasoline or diesel fuel or kerosene for whatever purpose well they now have different types of cans for different things. The red is for gasoline the yellow is for diesel and blue is for kerosone. Now one thing all of… Read More
Exhaust Repair
Although it’s often neglected and abused, one of the biggest safety parts of an automobile is going to be its exhaust system. It’s in charge of getting all the harmful exhaust gases from the engine out of the back of the car. Now the big thing here is exhaust gas contains carbon monoxide which is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and if you inhale enough of it…… Read More
Handy Helpers
This time we have some handy helpers that every tool box should have and the first one is wrench ID. If you’ve ever made a dozen trips back-and-forth to the tool box to get the right size wrench well this will prevent that. First you zero it like this then you put it over the end of the bolt like this and what you have is the wrench size that fits this bolt and if… Read More
Plus-Sizing Tires
Tires. For most folks, they’re just an essential part of every car. But to others, tires are a fashion statement. So here’s Pat Goss with the truth about plus size treads. This time we’re going to talk about tires with our tire expert Matt Edmonds. Matt welcome back to Goss’ garage. MATT EDMONDS: Pleasure to be here Pat. PAT GOSS: Alright you brought us an… Read More
Parking Brake Issues
Pat Goss: This time we’re joined by our online parts expert Tom Taylor. Tom, welcome to Goss’ garage. Tom Taylor: Thanks Pat, it’s great to be here. Pat Goss: Alright, what did you bring for us today? Tom Taylor: We’ll we’re going to talk about the rear brakes. There actually two systems going on back here. You have the brake that stops the car and then the… Read More
Hybrid Maintenance
This time we’re joined by Michael Smith from the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium from West Virginia University. Michael welcome to Goss’ Garage. MICHAEL SMITH: Thank you Pat. PAT GOSS: Alright, what in the world do we have here? MICHAEL SMITH: This is a training tool that our organization developed to help educate the public, technicians and first… Read More
Replacing Carpet
Probably the most abused part of the interior of any car is its carpeting. Let’s face it, it gets dirty, it gets chemicals from your shoes, you scuff around on it as it moves and so on. That means even relatively late model cars are going to need replacement. Now is it a do it yourself? Yeah, could be, but there are some things you need to know. First, you need… Read More
Two Tricky Fixes
This time I got a couple a problems that well they’ll drive ya nuts trying to find 'em. First is certain Ford vehicles that use this little critter right here it’s called a fuel control module and it controls the fuel pump on these vehicles. Now on pickup trucks this thing is mounted on a cross member back by the spare tire.. some of them are actually almost… Read More
TPMS Tips
TPMS or tire pressure monitoring systems have been around for a number of years now and a mandatory on all passenger cars and light trucks. So you would think a lot of people would understand them, but apparently a lot of people don’t. Number 1, is a lot of people think if the light is not on that means the tire pressure is perfect. That is not correct. All it… Read More