Learned the hard way once, now I won’t buy used without someone who actually knows what to look for

A few years back I bought a used BMW that looked amazing on the outside and the seller had a whole folder of receipts but it turned out half of them were from a shop that didn’t even exist and I ended up stuck with a car that had a warped head and…[Read more]

My 2013 C250 has been a solid little commuter for years now but just last week the AC compressor started making this awful grinding noise on cold starts that fades away after a minute or two but comes right back if I turn the AC off and on again, and I’m pretty sure the clutch bearing is on its way out or maybe the whole compressor is just tired…[Read more]

Moved over from Ajman about two months ago and of course within three weeks of settling in my daily driver started acting up, it’s nothing fancy just a 2014 Accord V6 that’s been in the family for years and has always been rock solid until recently when I started noticing a slight delay going into drive and a weird vibration under load that my…[Read more]

ZF 8 speed acting weird on my X5 when it’s hot outside, anyone else dealt with this in AD?

My 2016 X5 has been doing this thing for the last couple of months where the gearbox feels buttery smooth when I first leave the villa in the morning but by the time I’ve been crawling along the E10 in traffic for about forty five minutes in the afternoon…[Read more]

So I took my 2017 CTS into a shop in Al Quoz yesterday just to have them listen to this faint squeal I’ve been hearing on the way to JLT in the mornings, and they came back with a quote that honestly made my eyes water a bit, they’re saying the rear pads are basically metal on metal and the rotors have a pretty deep lip so the whole assembly needs…[Read more]

Setting up a new blending station and honestly overwhelmed by all the bunding options out there

We’re expanding our little operation here in Ajman and I’ve been handed the not so glamorous task of making sure the new mixing area doesn’t end up with a permanent stain on the concrete before we even get the first batch out the door, and while I…[Read more]