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.
Electric Vehicle Maintenance Episode 4005, Episode 4017
Here’s something we don’t see nearly enough of, and that’s an electric vehicle on a lift, in a service shop. Now why is it that we don’t see them? Well, because most people who own an electric vehicle seem to think that zero emissions means zero maintenance. Well that’s true for certain parts of the car, not in all parts of the car. So, what do we have? Well,… Read More
Ran When Parked Episode 4004, Episode 4016
Well you’ve been wanting this car for a long time. Something that you’ve been wanting since you were a teenager. And finally you find one. Maybe sitting out in the weeds, but you know, what’s the big deal? Then come those fateful words, ‘ran when parked.’ Okay well, maybe it did. But it’s been a long time since it’s been parked. Now what do you do? You really… Read More
CarFax Episode 4003, Episode 4015
Right now there is a strong demand for good used cars but as Pat Goss is about to tell us, before you buy you need to get the facts. Pat Goss: Buying a used car can be your best value but you need to do research to make sure that it truly is a good value. And to give us some pointers, we have Emilie Voss from Carfax. Emilie welcome to Goss’s Garage. Emilie… Read More
Disinfecting Cars Episode 4002, Episode 4014
Keeping your car clean is certainly important to maintain its value. But you have to keep it clean and you have to keep it sanitary and safe for you. But first, some things that you shouldn’t do. Number one, you shouldn’tclean your car using paper towels because they can trap dirt and then that dirt scratches soft surfaces. Here’s a big one I don’t know where it… Read More
40th Anniversary Oil Change Episode 4001, Episode 4012
If we’ve learned one thing over the last 40 years it’s that Pat Goss never steers us wrong down at Goss’s Garage. FLASHBACK GOSS: The one single thing that is most important as far as the life expectancy of your automobile’s engine is changing the oil.. PAT GOSS: Wow. That was 40 years ago. And you know the same thing applies these days? When it comes to changing… Read More
Throttled Bodies Episode 3946
This time, let’s start out by dispelling a myth. You have a dirty air filter and a lot of technicians tell you that that dirty air filter will cost you a lot of money because it decreases fuel economy. Well back in the day that was true. Back when we had carburetors.Today, not so much. See the reason is the air filter sits up here. Air comes through the filter… Read More
Stop, Steer & Stay Cool Episode 3945
This time we’re going to talk about steering, stopping, and cooling. Now, steering well historically cars have had power steering and most all of them were hydraulic but now they are changing over to electric. But, there are still millions of hydraulic powered steering fluid equipped cars on the road. And that power steering fluid needs to be changed. Typically no… Read More
Grounding Problems Episode 3944
On today’s cars and trucks, a little piece of wire like this and a screw can cause monumental electrical and electronics problems. You see, modern cars have all sorts of computers so that means they have to have absolutely clean good electrical connections. Now everybody’s familiar with checking the positive side of things to make sure that the power is getting… Read More
Getting Hitched Episode 3943
Watch a couple hours of commercial TV and you're bound to see an ad for a pickup truck towing something that’s roughly equivalent to the empire state building. And from that, you assume that any variant of that pickup truck well, it can do the same thing when in reality it cannot. You see, those are very special trucks that are built specifically for towing heavy… Read More
Vital Fluids Episode 3942
Now whether your car is new, it’s old, or some place inbetween, it has vital fluids. And the most important of those vital fluids is the engine oil. Now, you can have a newer car that may have an oil-like monitoring system on it, but remember that most of those monitoring systems do not tell you the condition of the oil. All they do is make a guess based on the… Read More