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TxDot Choke Hold (8/29/23)

Eight Years, Enough Already! For the past 8 years, my company has been dealing with one business catastrophe or another thanks entirely to TxDot. In its misplaced desire to make life better for all Texans, TxDot tramples the property rights of the small businesses...

Help Us Help You! (4/18/23)

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Help Us Help You. We work on a lot of cars – driven cars, pampered cars, hanger queens, projects, dreams on four wheels, and some memory wagons.… all of them arrive at our door step with a story. Many are actually driven in… many are not so lucky and get a...

Land Locked By TxDot (3/28/23)

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We need your help, and ‘Yes!!’ we are still open. As all of our regular customers are aware, Motorcars has spent the past 8 years engaged in one disagreement after another with TxDot. The discussions concern the “TxDot construction project” and any sense...

What is the difference between “Normal Service” and “Severe Service” ? It matters. (11/2/22)

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Background – Vehicle manufacturers produce new cars. Most offer “free warranty service” for oil changes during the warranty period. Most define service intervals in the 10,000 to 15,000 mile range… ie – bring your car in every 10,000 or 15,000 miles and...

It Is Always Something (10/18/22)

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Expectations and Costs New cars The new cars that we work on – Jaguar, Land Rover and MINI – live in a world of scrambled plastic water hoses and tiny wires with secretive computer components, accesses and programs. Classics The classics that we work on –...

Alcohol!!! No, I said, “Gasoline !!! (4/12/22)

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Caught… America is caught between burning oil in the form of real gasoline and burning a mixture of 15% alcohol derived from corn and 85% gasoline in the form of an ethanol laced liquid…. “No one” tells you that the ethanol is corrosive, deteriorates quickly,...