Extending oil change intervals – a recipe for disaster?
The major car manufacturers all agree that changing your oil every 3000 miles(5000 km) is a thing of the past and state that even every 5000 miles(8000 km)may be too often. Ford Motor Co recently announced it’s intention to increase the recommended oil change interval from 5000 to 7500 miles(12,000 km) on it’s 2007 and [...]
Adjusting the handbrake – Type 1 Rear Discs
The correct way to adjust handbrake with what I refer to as ‘Type 1′ discs is to loosen the cable adjuster off and adjust the handbrake shoes themselves. To do this you first need to remove the brake caliper bracket to be able to remove the brake disc. In our example (VK Commodore) it had [...]
Replacing Rear Disc Brake Pads – Type 1
First of all I will cover the type of rear disc brakes mainly found on Commodores and late model Falcons. They have the handbrake mechanism set up as a drum brake inside the rotor. If you need to adjust the handbrake please read the Handbrake adjusting post. Replacement of the brake pads on this set [...]
Service history, a must when purchasing a vehicle
Yesterday I was asked by a good friend if I could take a look at a vehicle that he was thinking of buying and it reminded me of the disaster that became of the vehicle that he bought previous to this one. The previous vehicle was a Mazda E2000 van, around 1999 year model with [...]
