OBD2 Scanner – The No-Brainer Hookup To Your Vehicle’s Brain
If you drive a car or truck, you have access to your OBD port – an “On Board Diagnostic” component built into your vehicle. In order to connect to the valuable data that can help you...
Category: Automotive
Technical articles about cars.
Winter-Proof Your Car With These Essential Tips
Is your car up to driving this winter? Cold temperatures, poor visibility, and adverse weather conditions often make driving uncomfortable, not to mention dangerous. Every year, 24% of weather-related vehicle crashes in the US occur on...
About Toyota Rav4 Ignition Coils Replacement
While this article goes to the 2001-2005 Toyota Rav4 models, it also applies to other Toyota models and to Rav4 models of other years of manufacture too. In the 2001-2005 Toyota Rav4 models, the most common...
Six Steps to Ensuring Your Car is Safe
Everybody knows the importance of being safe on the road, but not all drivers are equipped with the proper precautionary steps needed to ensure their cars are safe. In fact, recent surveys from the National Motor...
Why Ignoring REVS Check Will Cost You Time and Sales
Everybody desires to have a car of their own. The necessity of having a car is not a lesser known fact. These days cars play a vital role in everyone’s life. On an average, every household...
Accessories to Improve Comfort in Your Vehicle
Nowadays, modern cars come with many different accessories that in the past were not included or even possible. For example, GPS, Back view camera for when going in reverse, some come with integrated cooler/heaters, etc. Some...
Review: Anker Compact Car Jump Starter 400A Peak Current
I will start by saying “Don’t let this deceiving small size jump starter fool you”. New times have come and new technology has arrived and when it comes to the automotive industry, it does not cease...
Check Your Car for Problems Before You Sell
To ensure that your car sells quickly and that you don’t end up with an angry buyer who wants his or her money back after the sale, you should check over the components of your vehicle...
Engine problems after touching the battery terminal with the ECM of my 1994-1995 BMW 325i
This article was made because we have had customers that ordered a performance chip for their 1993, 1994 or 1995 BMW 325i/525i, and after installing the chip they have accidentally touched the positive terminal of the...
How do I know if my 2001-2003 Toyota RAV4 has immobilizer (immo)?
The immobilizer system, also known just as “immo”, is an automotive security system integrated into many vehicles since 1980’s and it has become more sophisticated with the years. It is installed in some 2001, 2002 and...
Loose parts in engine bay caused the vehicle to stall
This is how a simple situation was causing a car to completely stall at intermittent times with no apparent cause. This could happen to any car, though actual technology has already corrected this bug in engine...
Simple Immobilizer SMD EEPROM Removal and replacement
When you replace your 2001, 2002 or 2003 Toyota RAV4 ECM (engine computer) with a used or recycled unit, if your vehicle is equipped with an immobilizer system, which is an anti-theft security system, you must...
Reading and Writing Immobilizer EEPROMs in Circuit
Sometimes when working with immobilizer EEPROMs, the ideal way of programming the EEPROM is by doing it while it is in the circuit, as removing it, programming and resoldering it back to the circuit, add a...
Harsh shifting on Toyota RAV4 automatic transmission
If you own a Toyota Rav4 from 2001 through 2005 with automatic transmission and you are experiencing problems with the transmission, like harsh shifting, loss of power, launching on third gear and/or slamming into gear when...
My car engine hesitates when I accelerate!
Sometimes we experience an annoying hesitation or stalling when we are cruising in our cars and decide to accelerate either slightly or harder. There could be many different causes for your car to hesitate when accelerating,...
1992 – 1995 JDM Honda Computers Performance Chip Installation
This covers installing a chip in the 1992-1995 Honda JDM ECUs, “P72”, “P30” and “P08”. Installing a performance chip on 1992-1995 Honda JDM computers uses the same method as described on other posts on this website...
1988 – 1991 Honda Civic / CRX Performance chip Installation
This is for the following Honda ECM computers: PM6, PW0, PR3 (OBD-0) and PR4 (OBD-0). Installing a performance chip on 1988 -1991 Honda Civic / CRX is a simple procedure that consists of removing (desoldering) the...
Honda Stock Ignition Timing
When installing a performance chip in cars that use an ignition distributor, since the chip program is based on stock settings, it is required that the ignition distributor be at the stock advance setting. Many times,...
1993-1995 Accord – Prelude Performance Chip Installation
This applies to the following Honda ECM computers: P0A, P0B, P0C, P0H (OBD-I), P11, P12, P13, and P14. Installing a performance chip on 1993-1995 Honda Prelude and 1994-1995 Honda Accord is a simple procedure that consists...
Suzuki Swift GT Chip Installation
For installing a performance chip on your 1989-1994 Suzuki Swift GT/GTi ECU, just follow these instructions: Start out by locating the engine computer on your car. It is located under the driver’s side lower dash panel....
