Their emergency shouldn’t be yours unless they pay a premium to fix it.

What tools do you trust when installing wheels on a vehicle? The trusty torque wrench, or the straightforward torque sticks? Or maybe both?
Here’s 4 reasons you should consider putting them to work at your shop.
Examining the differences (and similarities) between these key roles in the automotive service industry.
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Shop Press photographer Mike Apice recently visited Indiana, exploring the local scene and a few repair shops. Here’s a bit of what he saw behind his lens.
Nick and Lemmy discuss the pros and cons of throwing parts at a problem.
Is this what automotive enthusiasm looks like now?
Why not capitalize on easy, predictable service that’s almost never a rush job?
Stew’s Garage near Tacoma, Washington, offers DIYers access to lifts, tools and expertise, and it’s building a following.
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Auto care news and advice you can use.
Lemmy tries out the cheapest lab scope available on Amazon.
Aiming for bare pavement may prevent some accidents, but at tremendous costs to taxpayers, mechanics, and the environment.
The right-to-repair issue is so pressing for farm equipment that someone hacked a tractor to draw attention to it.
Over-the-air (OTA) microtransactions could be seen as a benefit to customers, but lack of communication thus far is not creating that perception.
The Polaris Slingshot and eight other vehicles that make you ask, “What’s the deal with that?”
The flat-rate system doesn’t reward tenacity.
We read the astrological signs and predicted your automotive future.
75,000 state residents agree that independent repair shops should have ready access to real-time vehicle data.