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Helpful Links To Sites We Love!

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  • Russ
  • March 1, 2019
  • 12:53 pm
Some helpful links to sites we love, we'd like to share with you.

helpful links to sites we love

Car-Part.com ®

This site provides a search engine for used auto parts in your area and links to other yards in your region. Body shops and insurance companies love this site because it is a very useful site!  Be sure to enter your zip code to pinpoint your state/ region of the country, or you might find your parts in a distant region and shipping costs become an issue and problematic.

CarPart.com

Consumers Reports ® Online

Here you can research car reliability reports, build quality and ratings of cars in a collision.

Consumer Reports

King County Library System

Most libraries provide auto repair databases, but the quality of this resource depends upon it’s brand.  KCLS uses Chilton’s, not my first choice for manuals, but it’s free for library patrons that are enrolled. King County library also provides full access to Consumer’s Report.  

King County Library System

YouTube ®

An excellent site on how to do anything to your car. Quality can be spotty as some videos were shot with a smart-phone, but many others  are very good and professional quality. Always surprised and delighted when the most obscure mechanical problem is featured here with a remedy. Removing an ignition on $100K Porsche, we found a perfect video on how to do it!

YouTube

wikiHow ®

Great people with helpful information but a little thin on car repairs.

wikiHow

Car Talk ®

Love these guys.  Their website provides a listing of mechanics in your area, and you can listen to their shows online.  Unsure if they rate shops but Angie’s List does.

Car Talk

Angie's List ®

Once a subscription pay site, it is now FREE and a good source for reviews of mechanic AND body shops in your area.  

Angie’s List

Automotive Touch Up

Touch Up Paint for your car: Great site. Locating the correct color of your car is sometimes tricky and confusing, and this site has worked out all the kinks, with detailed instruction how to locate the color code. And their products are excellent.

Automotive Touch Up

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Welcome to CheckMyFluids.Com. Our site and materials are written, produced and offered to you by an automotive instructor and other mechanics. We love cars and want to share our tremendous experience with you. We present original material from the popular courses that were taught and also offer to you the best videos, clips and information that we could find online and in print. If you know of something better, please let us know and we'll use it. Product, goods and services, with links that are mentioned, are there because they worked well or because we've found them to be an outstanding. Of course, we do NOT imply, state or guarantee they will work the same for you and your car.

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