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.
Pane in the Glass
What could possibly be easier than cleaning the windows in your car? Well maybe a lot of things. First you have to make sure that you use the right products. Use a glass cleaner that’s designed for automobiles not for household use. The reason is some of the household products they can leave a film on the windshield that causes the wipers to streak and smear.… Read More
Valve Cover Gaskets
One of the most common places for an oil leak on an engine is and always has been the valve cover up on the top of the engine. Back in the day the valve covers used to be made out of tin and they were kinda fragile. These tin valve covers used flat gaskets made out of cork or sometimes rubber. Well, that evolved into aluminum valve covers which were machine flat… Read More
New Parts
As cars have evolved so have the ways we repair them. Now we look over here at this car we see that it has a fuse block. Well every car’s had that for years, but we may not see on many cars is something like this under that fuse block, which is a smart terminal block. Now this has a mini computer in it. On the truck that this came out of, this controls the turn… Read More
Parts Cleaning
This time we’re going to talk about one of the most important parts of fixing anything and that's cleaning parts. Now here's something that we're all familiar with in the repair business - CRC products and to tell us about a new CRC product, we have Julie Williams from CRC. Julie welcome to Goss’ Garage. JULIE WILLIAMS: Thank you, Pat PAT GOSS: Alright, so tell us… Read More
Missed Maintenance
Every time you put off preventive maintenance or repair you may be setting yourself up for unwanted circumstances farther down the road. In other words, you may create a more expensive problem by not taking care of an inexpensive problem now. Case and point ABS brakes. Here we have an ABS controller; these things have fluid in them like down in here this is all… Read More
DIY Windshield Repair
There’s some things on an automobile that are almost inevitable. Take this rock chip. Every day you go without one of these chips is typically a day closer to when you will have one. Now we look at this one, it is a bullseye, but it has a big crack out of it. Now, if it wasn’t for that crack, this would be readily repairable…but with the crack: maybe, maybe not…… Read More
Rearview Camera Maintenance
What you may not know about your modern car is that it could be a rolling computer. It has all kinds of sensors, cameras and so on..does all sorts of neat things for you. One of the more common cameras is mounted up here behind the windshield. And it looks at the lines on the road, helps you to stay in the lane properly. Well, if your windshield gets broken and… Read More
Wheel and Tire Fitment
This time we're going to talk about how the professionals figure out which tires and wheels will fit on your car. And for that information we have Matt Edmonds our tire expert. Matt, welcome back to Goss’s garage. MATT EDMONDS: Pleasure to be here, Pat. PAT GOSS: All right now aftermarket tires and wheels and so on very popular. MATT EDMONDS: They are they are… Read More
Electronics Care
Look under the hood of a modern automobile and you're going to see all kinds of wires and sensors and modules and computers and so on. Well that means that all of these things are electrical or electronic and they need a good electrical supply which that electrical supply starts here at the old fashioned battery and that means you have to have good clean… Read More
Wheel Repair
As long as there are potholes there will be wheel damage, and to give us some pointers about damaged wheels, we have Sam Friedman from Rim ReNew. Sam, welcome to Goss’ garage. SAM FRIEDMAN: Thank you, Pat. GOSS: Alright, you brought us some examples of wheels. What are we looking at? SAM FRIEDMAN: Well we’re looking at two very pretty wheels over here with not a… Read More