Why This Customer’s Electric Parking Brake Stuck On: A Plastic Actuator Gear Teardown
A customer called from a parking garage at 7:45 in the morning. His 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan had not moved. He had applied the electric parking brake the night before, returned in the morning, released it from the dashboard switch, and the car still would not roll. The dashboard showed an EPB fault light and a […]
We Drove a Car on 3 Cylinders for 300 Miles: Exact Catalytic Converter Damage Log
A 2010 Hyundai Sonata 2.4L came in with the check engine light on and a rough idle the owner described as ‘manageable.’ He had driven the car approximately 300 miles after the light illuminated, because the car ‘still got him where he needed to go.’ The misfire code was P0302: cylinder 2 misfire. The cause […]