Okay, I actually worked on a BMW this week. The media have been alerted. My daily-driver 2003 E39 530i...
One of the things on the punch list for the 183,000-mile 2008 Nissan Armada I bought as a tow...
Hey, this is the kind of clickbait title that shows up in my feed all the time, only it’s...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about buying a 182,000-mile 2008 Nissan Armada as a tow vehicle / stuff...
I bought a new tow vehicle / stuff hauler, but haven’t done anything BMW-specific with it yet, so today...
Let me set the wayback machine to 2010 for a moment. A Chamonix (white) ’72 2002tii in Rockland, Maine...
So, back-injury boy got his sorry back-injured butt out of the doldrums and actually did some real work in...
Anyone who worked on enthusiast cars in the YBI (years before internet) knows how absolutely indispensable personal relationships were....
I am mired in the longest wrenching dry spell I can remember. It’s due to a combination of having...
Last week, I outlined what I was looking for in a replacement for the 2008 Chevy Silverado Duramax diesel...
A mid-week family trip to Washington D.C.’s National Zoo in my ‘98 M3 sedan, Project Concord, was the final...
Thanks, folks, for the comments on last week’s piece and sharing your love of the E46. I haven’t made...
For some reason, the supposed-to-be-quick 30-minute repairs seem to result in hours of blood, sweat, and tears for me....
As we head into the new year, there appear to be three dynamics at work at Chez Hack, functioning...
A few weeks ago, I posted about selling off some parts, including an instrument cluster from an E9 2800CS....
Since scratching that itch that began in adolescence and buying my first 2002 in Austin in 1982, by last...
As those of you who’ve been reading me for decades know, my other passion in addition to the cars...
First, to resolve my Who-Shot-JR-level cliffhanger last week (good lord my references are getting dated), that pesky misfire has not returned,...
Last week, I wrote about addressing an intermittent misfire in my daily-driver 2003 E39 530i stick sport that reared...
My 2003 530i stick sport has had a misfire that seems to rear its head annually when the temperature...
For the nearly eight years I’ve owned my 2003 530i stick sport, I’ve needed to unlock the trunk manually...
Last week, I took the valve cover off of Rene (my ’73 3.0CSi with the Frankenstein’s monster M30B32 533i...
Last week, I talked about how black oil and a bit of a valve train tick guilted me into...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about taking Rene, my ’73 3.0CSi, down to Oktoberfest in Rhode Island. I...
For decades, most of my automotive energy was directed at finding well-priced 2002s that had good bodies but were...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about driving out to the warehouse on the Massachusetts / Connecticut line where...
I generally consider my ’73 3.0CSi E9 coupe (a.k.a. “Rene” after actress Rene Russo, whose entrance in The Thomas...
Among the many ways I am blessed in this life, I own two round taillight 2002s. Louie is the...
If you own a car long enough, its brakes will need to be bled. You could be a goody-two-shoes...
There are a few bedrock events in my BMW history. I’ve told and retold the story of the Hampshire...
