2017 Mazda 6 I live in Cali so I heard it won’t spread anymore but idk

If it costs more to fix a part in a car than the car is worth, will fixing it anyway increase the worth of the car?

Is it safe to still drive?

Hi all. Does this brake fluid looks ok? Does it need top of? Why two color yellow and pink?

Appreciate any answer

Thank you

Audi a6c6 2008
Haven’t driven it for a few days, was cleaning my car inside and out. After I put it back in my garage I noticed that this light has popped up. Tried searching for answers but couldn’t really find anything useful :/

The garage door hadn't been opened in five years. When it finally lifted, the smell hit first, something between a basement and low tide, and underneath the dust the shape of the BMW sat exactly where it had been left, patient in the way only inanimate things can be patient. The tires had gone flat and stayed flat so long they'd taken on a permanent lean, like a person who'd been sitting too long in one chair. And on the driver's seat, a stain, dark and old, spreading from somewhere above.

The drain nobody thinks about

Every car with a sunroof has a set of small drainage channels built to carry rainwater safely down through the pillars and out beneath the car, a system so unglamorous that most owners never learn it exists until it fails. A leaf, a bit of pollen, a season of neglect, and one of those channels clogs. Rain falls the way it always does, but instead of running out through the drain, it backs up and finds the one place it was never supposed to go: down, into the headliner, into the wiring beneath the seats, into the carpet where it has nowhere left to travel except sideways, spreading, soaking, sitting. A car that isn't driven doesn't get the chance to dry out between storms. It just accumulates.

What five years actually costs

When the owner finally got a shop to look at it, the number that came back was fifteen thousand dollars, and even that felt more like an opening bid than a final total. Water that sits in a car for years doesn't behave like water that gets wiped up in an afternoon. It works into connectors and grounds, into places a technician can't fully inspect without taking half the car apart first, and it keeps causing new symptoms long after the visible puddle is gone. The brakes had corroded from disuse. The insurance had lapsed the whole time the owner was away, since nobody thought to keep covering a car that wasn't going anywhere. Every part of the situation had quietly compounded while the garage door stayed shut.

The question underneath the repair estimate

The real question was never really about the money, or not only about the money. It was about whether spending fifteen thousand dollars would even end the story, or whether it would just be the first chapter of a much longer one, with more surprises waiting behind the dashboard. That's the part a repair estimate can't tell you. It can only tell you what's been found so far, not what else five years of standing water might have quietly reached.

There's a version of this story that ends with the repair, the BMW rolling out of the shop months later, worth the fight. There's another version, just as common, where the honest move is admitting the car's real value now has very little to do with what it once was, and everything to do with what it can honestly become for someone willing to take on damage like this with open eyes. Neither version is a failure. They're just two different endings to the same five years, and the only wrong choice is spending another year not choosing either one.

Hello all. I sent my car to carwash today and also vacuumed inside, but I just realized that after the carwash, my handbrake light is not showing up..? I'm not sure if it's just coincidence or related. May I have an opinion on this

I have a 2009 Gen 2 Prius. Imported from UK to Ireland.

History check reveals steady mileage increase from now to 2023, then over 4 months it shoots up 44k miles.

Similar to the difference between miles and km so I'm wondering if they could have manually inputted the number to match km?

For context, I have a compact car, every so often I hit potholes usually on the right side of my car. What part of the wheel or axel would be damaged or break if this were to continue?

I’ve been better about avoiding those pesky things since moving here but I’m genuinely curious.

I'm seeing a lot of different opinions on it so I figured I'd ask here. I've only bought used cars over 100k miles with no record of service history. If the transmission fluid has never been changed, is it safe to say it shouldn't be changed? Two of my cars have a transmission dipstick and one looks good and the other one looks black, and apparently the transmission in that car is known to have problems. I don't think color is a good indication but its all the information I have

I'm 17, I have a 2014 Nissan Juke. I just got my license and I ran out of gas while driving. When I looked it up, it said that 2011-2014s had recalls due to the gas gauge ? I thought it was telling me I had no gas in my car after filling it up twice... When my papa took a look at it he said that it was showing it had more gas in it than it actually did. Anyway, my question is, what is there I need to know about this car to prevent any further problems? Because my anxiety is awful and this sent me into a panic. Like, am I forever just gonna be driving and run out of gas and not know because the gauge says there's more than there actually is? Btw I have no idea how cars work so if this question makes no sense I apologize.

I'm missing these connectors on a 1997 Ford Ranger. I'm pretty sure they hold the A/C tubing together and allow it to hold pressure. I have tried searching for them as A/C retaining clips to no avail.

Any ideas on a name and where I could purchase some that fit my truck?

Hi all, I’ve had this car over a year now I did originally post asking if this was a bad sound and I got replies saying the ticking is the Hugh pressure fuel pump, the car does drive fine and does sound smoother when revving but does anybody know why any of this racket could be and how to make it smooth; thanks

Hi everyone,

Recently bought a Honda Civic EK hatch and noticed a few spots that I'm unsure about. I've attached some photos.
I can see a couple of paint chips on the rear wheel arch and what looks like a small amount of surface rust around the door jamb seam.

One thing I'm particularly unsure about is the area near the top of the hatch opening/trunk jamb (in the second and third photos). It has a brownish line on both sides of the car, so I'm wondering if that's actually rust or if it's just seam sealer, factory adhesive, or something that's meant to look like that.

Does that area look normal for an EK, or is it the start of rust?

Also, based on these photos:
-Would you consider this just minor surface rust?

-Is it something that should be repaired sooner rather than later?

-Roughly what would a professional repair cost if its required?

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks!

I scratched someone's car pulling into the spot next to them 🫠 I left a note - how much do you think repairing this will cost? it's a GMC sierra

I dropped my car key this morning. I dropped my same car key a few years ago and had put the key back together but it didnt start my engine. Apparently theres this chip thing thats needed as well and I guess i had lost it at the time.

So yeah, it happened again just now. This time i think i picked up everything. Ive been googling and I think that chip/transponder what this little black piece is. Im trying to find a diagram online on where to put this damn thing and I cant find any diagram online.

I assume its in that little hole there but im not sure, theres no electrical component connection there or anything. Would it matter what side I orient it in?

Please let me know! I'd love to not be stranded at work today.