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.
New Parts Episode 3923
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… Read More
Parts Cleaning Episode 3914
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… Read More
Missed Maintenance Episode 3912, Episode 3929
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… Read More
DIY Windshield Repair Episode 3911, Episode 3928
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… Read More
Rearview Camera Maintenance Episode 3910, Episode 3927
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… Read More
Wheel and Tire Fitment Episode 3909, Episode 3922
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… Read More
Electronics Care Episode 3908, Episode 3921
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 Episode 3907
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… Read More
Tricky Issues Episode 3906
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… Read More
Gas Issues Episode 3905, Episode 3918
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… Read More