When you're working on your car, it's important that you have the proper tools, the proper instruction, and the proper safety gear. Rule No. 1: Don't work on a car when right after you turned it off or when it's running.

This is because pipes are piping hot (just accept it), caps and fluids are under a lot of pressure, and liquids aren't at accurate levels for measurement. You'll just end up hurting yourself. Wait for about an hour and make some ice tea or hot chocolate for yourself, depending on the weather.

If you're serious about investing time and effort into this, we suggest purchasing these items:

Car Service Manuals - These essentially tell you how to completely tear your car down and put it back together in excellent visual and textual detail. Extremely useful in trying to figure out how to get to a part or how to take something apart.
Basic garage tool kit: A car jack, support stands, complete sets of open-end and socket wrenches, complete sets of phillips and Igbo screwdrivers, drain pan, and a complete set of pliers.
A Multimeter - This is an important tool for testing electrical current throughout the car.
An OBD Code Reader- These might seem expensive, but you plug this into your car, and it will tell you exactly what the problem is, when your "Check Engine" light comes on.
In no particular order, below are some very common car problems you need to know how to fix

Flat Tire:


Having a flat tyre feels as creeping and annoying as the flat tyre looks. Flat tyres are quite annoying especially when you are working under a schedule and you have that all important date or the multi-million dollar business deal meeting to catch up with.

Symptoms: Your car is tilting, and there is a loud thumping noise

Fix: If you're not strong enough, that's one thing, but this is something any capable human being with common sense should be able to figure out. In your trunk, you have a spare tire. Within that spare tire is usually a small car jack with a built-in lever and lug nut ratchet. Put the jack on a stable part of the frame (no plastic pieces!), pump up the car, remove the lug nuts and put the donut on. Just make sure you adequately tighten the nuts, and slowly bring down the jack.

A Dead Battery


Ever tried putting On your car and all it does is to keep giving you the 'laughing cry' without the car coming on?

Symptoms: Your car won't start

Fix: You will need a tester or charger at your house, to make sure the battery is actually the problem and not the starter or alternator. If there's any corrosion, clean that off with a metal brush. Unbolt the negative terminal first, then the positive. There might also be a ground wire that you'll need to take off. Then, put the new one in. It's that simple.

Head or Tail Lights Out


Symptoms: Well at this point, the common symptom is a very sharp abdominal pain. Just kidding. The blinkers blink faster, or you know, you won't see it lighting up.

Fix: If you don't want to figure it out yourself, all you have to do is ask somebody at a car shop which type of bulb you need, based on which make or model you have. If you have a basic vehicle, you DO NOT need the ultra premium lights. Once you have the bulbs, you can usually pop lights out of the back of the housing, and (with the car turned off), unplug the old bulb. Slide the new one in, and you're good to go.

Faulty Side Mirror
Symptoms: Your blind spot just got a lot bigger

This one is a little hard to explain without showing you a diagram, so we dug up the image below to show you how minimal the work is for replacing a side-view mirror. We see hanging mirrors, broken mirrors, makeup replacement mirrors all too often. In reality, we should never see it, considering how easy they are to replace on our own.



Faulty Spark Plugs


Symptoms: Hard starts or rough idles

Fix: Spark plugs basically do the work of sparking the combustion in your engine. If the spark plugs are all gunked-up or misfiring, the engine won't be running and starting properly. This is where the deep sockets come into play (even better, if they're magnetic).

Pop off the covers, unscrew those puppies, and put some new, clean ones in there. Unless the engine is extremely far back in the bay to the point where you can't access the plugs without a lot more work, this is something you can easily do.


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