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Diagnose Car Trouble

I ran across a great suggestion in Popular Mechanics magazine pertaining to saving your cars computer memory when you change the battery.

When you disconnect the car battery all of the memory that saves the engine performance data is reset to zero or baseline. When that happens you have to drive [...]

2003 Toyota Matrix Front Brake Squeal

The brakes started squealing on my 2003 Toyota Matrix at right around 60,000 miles. Not one thousand miles before I had checked the brake pads and there was plenty of material on them so I eliminated the pads as being the problem. There was no pulling to one side or the other just a squeal [...]

2003 Toyota Corolla A/C Doesn’t Cool-Compressor Won’t Start

On my wife’s 2003 Toyota Corolla/Matrix XR the A/C suddenly stopped working for no reason. She just pressed the A/C button and no cold air.

After checking into the problem I found that after turning on the A/C the engine RPM would increase as if the compressor was turning on, and the cooling fan would [...]

2003 Toyota Matrix A/C Compressor Not Working

On my wife’s 2003 Toyota Matrix XR the A/C suddenly stopped working for no reason. She just pressed the A/C button and no cold air.

After checking into the problem I found that after turning on the A/C the engine RPM would increase as if the compressor was turning on, and the cooling fan would [...]

Toyota Matrix-Replacing The Serpentine Belt

Like most front wheel drive cars the Toyota Matrix has a serpentine belt that drives the alternator, water pump, air conditioner , and power steering pump. Our 2003 Toyota matrix got to where it had 50,000 miles on it and the old belt started to give symptoms of being stretched because the automatic tensioner was [...]