Tag Archives: Car Q and A

Q & A #28 With The Auto Specialist

Q & A #28 With The Auto Specialist Welcome back to the Auto Specialist. If you have never read this ongoing column before, I invite you to take a look through our archives. By answering readers’ questions, we’ve managed to amass an impressive collection of car problems and their resolutions. In this installment, we’ll help [...]

Q & A #27 With The Auto Specialist

Q & A #27 With The Auto Specialist If you’re a regular reader, thanks for rejoining us for this installment of the Auto Specialist. If you’re reading for the first time, welcome. In this recurring column, we take a close look at two or three car problems and help readers figure out the root source. [...]

Q & A #26 With The Auto Specialist

Q & A #26 With The Auto Specialist Since beginning this column, we’ve built a fantastic compendium of automotive knowledge over the past few months. The credit goes to the readers who send in their questions about problems their vehicles are having. If this is your first time reading, be sure to peruse our growing [...]

Q & A #25 With The Auto Specialist

Q & A #25 With The Auto Specialist Welcome back to the Auto Specialist. In today’s installment, I’m going to respond to a reader’s question about a noisy fan belt in a car he’s thinking about buying. We’re also going to take a look at a misfire problem that a reader is experiencing. Before we [...]

2005 Honda Accord Anti-lock Brake Indicator Light

Q & A #24 With The honda accord specialist One of the most interesting trends I’ve noticed lately is that a growing number of people are keeping their older vehicles on the road rather than buying new ones. Older cars translates into older parts. And that means a greater likelihood of getting stranded as the [...]

Q & A #21 With The Auto Specialist

Q & A #21 With The Auto Specialist Welcome back. In this regular column, we take a close look at car problems that readers are having. I try to diagnose the issues, narrow it down to the parts and systems involved, and offer my thoughts on how to resolve them. In today’s segment, we’re going [...]

Q & A #20 With The Auto Specialist

Q & A #20 With The Auto Specialist Welcome back to the latest segment of the Auto Specialist. You might remember from the last installment that we helped a reader diagnose her car’s pinging issue. We also tried to figure out why clouds of white smoke were coming out of another reader’s exhaust. I’d like [...]

Q & A #19 With The Auto Specialist

Q & A #19 With The Auto Specialist I read a recent report that suggested people are continuing to stay away from dealership lots. That may be due to lingering fears of unemployment or waiting to see whether the car industry suffers any blowback from the automotive bailouts. Whatever the case, one thing is clear: [...]

Q & A #18 With The Auto Specialist

Q & A #18 With The Auto Specialist With the economy putting a lot of people on notice about their jobs, more drivers than ever seem willing to keep their older cars on the road. Good decision. New vehicles are expensive. However, the other side of the coin is that auto parts which have suffered [...]

Q & A #16 With The Auto Specialist

Q & A #16 With The Auto Specialist Welcome back. In the last installment of the Auto Specialist, we looked at an overheating problem that a reader was experiencing. We also discussed an issue that one driver was having with a failing alternator. Today, we’re going to explore two new car problems: one with an [...]