Articles & Commentaries

Burnish the brakes?

Burnish We ran into something very curious while finishing our Tesla updates. It was a suggestion to burnish the brakes…

1 year ago

New video on our YouTube channel: Open and Start a Honda Prologue or Acura ZDX EV with a dead key fob

Honda Prologue or Acura ZDX EV We have added a video to our YouTube channel demonstrating how to open and…

1 year ago

German study finds a breakdown weak link between ICE vehicles and EVs

Breakdown weak link We've done two recent posts related to 12 volt start batteries over the last several months and…

1 year ago

Problematic in-car owner’s manuals on the rise

In-car owner's manuals We've expressed our grievances with owner's manuals many, many times over the years. But the growing trend…

1 year ago

New video on our YouTube channel: Open, Start a Cadillac Lyriq EV with a dead key fob battery

Open, start a Cadillac Lyriq We got our hands on a new EV (electric vehicle) and had the opportunity to…

1 year ago

Semi-adaptive cruise control indicator

Semi-adaptive cruise control We are in the process of updating our Opel dashboard symbols page, and ran across an odd…

2 years ago

New video on our YouTube channel: Open, Start a Buick Encore with a dead key fob battery

Open, start a Buick Encore We have added an updated video to our YouTube channel demonstrating how to open, start…

2 years ago

The mystery of regenerative braking

Regenerative braking Like many of you, my insurance company plays big brother, watching my every driving move. But regenerative braking…

2 years ago

Is keyless start truly an improvement on key start?

Keyless start I had two comments from the same viewer on our YouTube channel regarding his keyless start car. His…

2 years ago

Porsche manuals hold many more indicators in text

Porsche manuals We discovered a source for Porsche manuals and embarked on updating the Porsche dashboard symbols page. It was…

2 years ago