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Eliminating Interior Odors

Tomorrow's Technician

I think we have all encountered an interior that was not pleasant in our vehicle. I am sure we could all tell some home remedy that works, but what do you tell your customer when they want to purchase something to do the trick? Locate the Source of Interior Odors First The first thing to help them with is trying to find the source of the odor. It usually emanates from one area if it has been around for a while.

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April Car Care Series: Getting Greener With Your Car

Girls Auto Clinic

Sponsored by Renewable Fuels Association We know you care about the environmentand so do I. I understand not everyone is ready (or able) to shell out thousands of dollars on a newer, eco-friendly car. The good news? You dont have to. Theres a simple, affordable way to reduce your carbon footprint and save money without upgrading your ride. Enter Ethanol 15 (E15).

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ADAS Calibration

Tomorrow's Technician

Many shops and technicians can come up with multiple reasons why they dont want to perform ADAS calibrations or invest in the equipment. But, chances are they dont understand what happens during an ADAS calibration. The most challenging concept to embrace is that most ADAS cameras and radar sensors do not have moving parts inside. Cameras are set at the factory for focus and field of view.

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This Mammoth Tiny House Offers More Than 500 Square Feet of Pure Luxury

autoevolution

Downsizing doesn't have to feel like a compromise, especially if you choose a tiny house that's not so tiny. This European-built XXL home on wheels stays classic and minimalist, even though it offers much more floor space than the average compact mobile home. It's designed to blend beautifully with the Baltic landscape and offer luxury-level comfort, which might be the perfect formula for tiny living.

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Enhance Cabin Air Efficiency

Brake & Front End

As a service advisor, you understand the importance of providing customers with innovative solutions that enhance their driving experience. One often-overlooked opportunity lies in cabin air filter replacements. This maintenance task that can significantly help to enhance Cabin Air Filter Efficiency. Nearly every vehicle built since the early 2000s features a cabin air filter as part of its HVAC system.

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Twins Waited Decades To Buy a 1-in-50 Car Their Great-Grandad Couldn't Build 77 Years Ago

autoevolution

In 1948, when the American motoring industry was getting back on its feet, one car company wanted to revolutionize the entire industry with a marvelous automobile. The proposed vehicle was touted as the motor for modernizing the whole paradigm of pistons. Still, its enthusiastic debut was abruptly canceled in one of the most controversial affairs in Detroit's history.

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Why Hub Bearings Are NOT All The Same

Brake & Front End

Are all hub bearings the same? Think again! This video breaks down the key differences between premium and value-grade hub bearings, focusing on service life, speed sensors, and NVH (noise, vibration, harshness). Youll also learn about the SKF X-Tracker series, offering car-like handling for trucks and SUVs with its innovative design. Learn how a stiffer hub improves steering, reduces brake wear, and enhances overall performance.

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The Surprising Amount of Ways Tires Can Lose Air

Tire Review Magazine

Did you know that even regularly inflated tires lose air over time? It’s a natural process that affects all tires. Help your customers maintain optimal performance by understanding why tires lose air and taking steps to extend tire life. In this video, well cover the surprising ways tires lose air so you can help customers get the most out of every set.

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This Micro Camper Van Is a Snug, Travel-Ready Home on Wheels With All the Basic Comforts

autoevolution

How small is too small when it comes to camper vans? Well, it depends on who you ask. Some people are fine with the bare essentials: a kitchenette, a bed, and some storage space. If you're one of these people, you'll most likely enjoy the camper van I'm discussing today. Micro camper vans are surprisingly functional, given their compact size.

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Understanding Timing Chains and Belts

Brake & Front End

Timing is EVERYTHING for engine performance! This video dives into the world of timing chains and belts, explaining the key differences, common issues, and why proper maintenance is crucial. We’ll cover: Chain vs. Belt: Materials, design, and lifespan. Warning Signs: How to spot potential problems before they lead to costly engine damage. SKF Timing Chain Systems: Learn about SKF’s premium timing chain systems, designed for quality, reliability, and easy installation.

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The Mav Camper Van Is Perfect for Both Short Escapes in Nature and Boondocking in the Wild

autoevolution

The van life trend has grown to tremendous proportions, as many see the experience of traveling around in a camper van as the ultimate form of freedom and adventure. Though packing all your life into such a compact space implies no small amount of lifestyle adjustments, the benefits far outweigh the compromises for those with a wandering spirit, allowing them to lead a simpler yet more fulfilling life.

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Download ShopOwner’s April Issue Now

Brake & Front End

The interactive and easy-to-use digital edition of ShopOwner s April issue, featuring articles from Brake & Front End, is available now. Click Here to read the April issue In addition to management topics and opinion pieces, you’ll learn how to think like a machine when it comes to ADAS – at least, how to understand what the vehicle’s “senses” are absorbing about hazards and how to make them more accurate; pro tips to make your car care event more customer frien

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This Custom AWD Transit Camper Van Boasts a Hidden Bathroom and a Clean, Efficient Design

autoevolution

It's normal for us to have different wants and needs—that's what makes us human. When it comes to camper vans, if you want a build that fits like a glove, you can either build it yourself based on your requirements or pay someone for a custom conversion. Today, I'm checking out a custom camper van conversion made by Wanderful Wheels, a Durango, Colorado-based company specializing in crafting homes on wheels bas. ( continue reading.

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The Surprising Amount of Ways Tires Can Lose Air

Tire Review Magazine

Did you know that even regularly inflated tires lose air over time? It’s a natural process that affects all tires. Help your customers maintain optimal performance by understanding why tires lose air and taking steps to extend tire life. In this video, well cover the surprising ways tires lose air so you can help customers get the most out of every set.

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Triumph Bobber Princesa Is Fit for Royalties and Intriguing for Many Reasons

autoevolution

We feel confident in saying that Tamarit Motorcycles is one of our favorite custom bike shops, and they require no introduction whatsoever. You will regularly see us talking about their work here on autoevolution, as there is no shortage of amazing builds to be admired in their project archive. The one we’ll be looking at today is actually a bit older than others we’ve covered, but that doesn’t make it any less impressive. ( continue reading.

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Our Website’s Awesome, Why Consider Digital Vehicle Portfolios?

AutoSuccess

Auto dealership websites are awesome. What a car shopper cant find on them wouldnt fill a thimble so why should you consider adding digital vehicle portfolio (DVP) content to this fantastic marketing site? Thats a great question, and every dealer, GM and used car manager should ask it. Thats how to become enlightened about how, as a marketing and sales tool, a DVP brings in more leads and more used car sales than the dealers used car inventory pages alone.

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The Grand Design Solitude 414LJMJ Concept Takes Fifth-Wheel RV Living to New Heights

autoevolution

Next time you feel inclined to mock influencers and YouTubers for doing nothing with their lives or, even worse, for wasting their lives and polluting ours with mindless content, think again. Not all YouTubers are alike, and the Moss family is one of the exceptions. The Moss family is active online under the Less Junk, More Journey moniker, which they use to sign videos of their life as an RV family.

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O’Reilly Auto Parts’ CEO Brad Beckham on Company Culture and Staying Grounded

AutoSuccess

In this episode of DriveTime , Brad Beckham, CEO of OReilly Auto Parts , discusses how he got into the business at 17 years old, sweeping floors and putting up stock in an OReilly Auto Parts store in Oklahoma. It was 1996 and, at that time, OReilly had less than 200 stores. Over time working in that store, he became a parts specialist and still remembers the 16 feet of paper catalog racks on the front counter.

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Woman Shares Her Secrets to Thrifty Nomad Living in a Smart Car for the Next Five Years

autoevolution

Mobile living can take all kinds of shapes and forms. From bicycle-drawn tents on cargo trailers to massive motorhomes that tower over everything else on the road, the world has it all. However, every once in a while, we encounter a human that does things differently, and this time around, that human is Kay, using her Smart car as nothing other than an RV in just about every sense of the word you can think of.

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Tuesday Teaching | Building a Shop Your Customers Can’t Stop Talking About

Shop Marketing Pros

Building a Shop Your Customers Cant Stop Talking About Webinar Tuesday | 5/27/2025 12:00 PM CST Most shops do great workbut they all start to blur together. If you want customers to remember your shop, you’ve got to give them something worth talking about. This Tuesday Teaching breaks down how to turn everyday customer service into something unforgettable.

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The Full Fat Is a Record-Setting E-Trike With Endless Customizability; Worth the Cash

autoevolution

Recumbent bikes have a reputation for being some of the most comfortable around, but they have limits. So, one team has designed the Full Fat to break those limits and create a different kind of recumbent cycle. Ladies and gents, before us, is the one and only Full Fat off-road recumbent from Ice Trikes, a crew that's actually been on the market for years now, since 1999, and operating out of England.

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Hankook Tire Equips 2026 Lucid Gravity SUV with OE iON evo AS Tires

Tire Review Magazine

Hankook Tire will supply its EV-exclusive all-season tire, the iON evo AS SUV , as the original equipment (OE) EV tire for Lucid Gravity. Lucid Motors recently unveiled the Lucid Gravity in the United States as its second all-electric vehicle model. It accelerates from 0 to 62 mph in 3.5 seconds and offers a range of over 434 miles on a single charge. iON evo AS SUV Designed for High-Performance EVs Hankook Tire developed the iON evo AS SUV as a high-performance all-season tire specifically for

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Man Buys New 2023 Chevy Camaro ZL1 1LE Coupe for $77,690, Adds 30 Miles, Sells for $88,500

autoevolution

This 2023 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Coupe features a Summit White over Jet Black leather and microsuede configuration and has almost never been driven. Showing 30 miles on the clock, this flagship-spec Camaro just sold for $10,810 over MSRP. It’s not often we celebrate cars getting flipped for a profit on our website, and while some of you still don’t understand why, all I can do is reiterate that flipping a car for a profi. ( continue reading.

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Elon Musk Allegedly Threatened To Deport Tesla Engineers For Bringing Up Brake Safety Issues: Whistleblower

Jalopnik

Cristina Balan, a Romanian-born engineer, was recently successful in throwing out Tesla's arbitration case against her.

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Be the Proud Owner of This Post-WWII No Reserve and Restored 1950 Willy's M38 Jeep

autoevolution

While I'm no military buff, and it's sure to show in the following article, I know that some of our readers love a good post-WWII piece. So, at the risk of looking like a slight fool, feast your eyes upon this restored and museum-ready 1950 Willys M38. Best of all, it's ready to fly at a whim's notice; it's up for auction and with no reserve.

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Help Identify A Vehicle Discovered Inside The Shipwrecked USS Yorktown

Jalopnik

NOAA researchers are calling to car enthusiasts to identify the make and model of the sunken piece of automotive history, which looks like an early '40s woodie.

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Colibri Tiny Home Is an Invitation To Live Simply, Sustainably, and in Harmony With Nature

autoevolution

The tiny house concept might have originated in the US, but the movement has quickly spread to the rest of the world and is continuing to gain more adopters by the day. In Europe, people of all ages and from all walks of life have become interested in downsizing their living space and leading a simpler, more sustainable life in a tiny home. One of the European builders working around the clock to meet the increasing demand for c. ( continue reading.

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Driving The Lamborghini LM002 Is Even More Amazing And Terrible Than You Expect

Jalopnik

Lamborghini's V12-powered LM002 served as a precursor for the super SUVs we take for granted today, and in a lot of ways it actually exceeds them.

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Mobile Wellness With a Twist: This Is the Ford E-Transit-Based Sauna Van

autoevolution

These days, it feels as if anyone can take any beat-up van and turn it into a home on wheels, regardless of their experience – or lack thereof. But this is probably the first sauna built on top of an all-electric van, and Ford takes credit for it. If you ask the Finnish, a sauna is essential's for one's wellbeing and health, both mental and physical.

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Lance Stroll Is Officially The Worst Qualifier In Formula 1

Jalopnik

Last weekend's Saudi Arabian Grand Prix marked Aston Martin Racing's Lance Stroll 75th career Q1 drop out, making him the worst qualifier in modern F1 history.

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Formula 1: Winners and Losers From the 2025 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix

autoevolution

He had to fight for it, but Oscar Piastri enters the week's break as the new championship leader after taking victory in Sunday's Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Max Verstappen pushed him all the way to the finish and had every right to feel aggrieved after picking up a five-second penalty for straight-lining turn 1 at the start costing him a possible win.

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New Car Sales Are Going To Take A Massive Dip This Year Thanks To Tariffs

Jalopnik

Car sales in the U.S. and Canada could drop by 1.8 million vehicles in 2025, and that's just the beginning of the issue.

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Ford Recalls E-Transit Chassis Cab Vehicles Over Potential Battery Fire From Water Damage

autoevolution

The Ford Motor Company has issued a safety recall for certain 2024 and 2025 model year E-Transit Chassis Cab vehicles. According to the Dearborn-based automaker, the high-voltage battery pack's tray side rails may buckle and crack when exposed to repeated freezing and thawing. Said cycle ultimately allows water ingress, therefore increasing the risks of an electrical short. ( continue reading.

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Next-Gen Hybrid Nissan GT-R Coming Within Five Years, Could Be Co-Developed With Next Acura NSX

Jalopnik

What exactly the R36 GT-R will be still seems up in the air, but at least we know Nissan is actively working on one.

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This Custom Honda NX350 Has Street Tracker Vibes Mixed With Utilitarian Retro Flavor

autoevolution

Not every custom bike shop can stay in the game for the long haul, even if their work is beyond reproach and the future appears bright. The recent pandemic dealt a devastating blow to the bike-modding community around the world, putting an end to many builders’ plans before they could realize their true potential. Republica Motocicletas of Cordoba, Argentina has sadly not been active since 2021.

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These Are The Cars You Want To Buy But Are Too Scared To Own

Jalopnik

There are myriad reasons why a car might be too scary to own, from reliability to parts scarcity to quick acceleration.

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Good News for CarPlay Users As Brilliant App Unlocks YouTube, Browsing

autoevolution

YouTube in the car has long been a highly controversial topic, and as far as Google and Apple are concerned, this service must not be allowed behind the wheel. The search giant has backtracked on its firm decision in the last few years, bringing YouTube (and other video platforms) to Android Automotive and preparing to unlock the video app category on Android Auto.