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Buying a used car can be intimidating if you’re not sure what to look for, or how to negotiate for a fair price. Master Muffler has some tips for buying a used car, whether you’re working with a dealer or a private seller. First of all, set a budget and stick to it. It [...]

The Science of Safety These days, there is likely no other industry that has undergone a more rigorous overhaul, in terms of safety, than the automobile industry. As cars have gotten more sophisticated and have been outfitted with better engines that could get the car traveling at higher rates of speed, safety features have [...]

A Machine Full of Fluid A popular television character once said that all humans are no more than “sacks full of water; if you puncture us, the water leaks out.” While that is an extremely reductive view of the human body, it rings with a certain kind of truth. The same, in many ways, [...]

A Friendly Neighborhood Mechanic It is often said that if you can get your hands on a good mechanic and a good priest then you should do all that you can to keep them. It’s our experience as car repair specialists that if your mechanic can keep your vehicle roadworthy for as long as [...]

Licensed to Decipher As much as we anticipated all that we would experience once we finally got our driver's license as teenagers, we likely didn’t expect that we would essentially be learning a whole other language than the one that we already know. But driving a car forces us to not only allow this [...]

Light My Fire If you are a student of automobiles, you are likely familiar with how the gasoline engine works. In case you need a quick reminder, the car combines air with gasoline vapors to make a dense mixture that is then compressed in the engine’s central chamber before it is ignited by a [...]

Let in the Good, Let Out the Bad We’ve all been in the kitchen before, cooking some spaghetti. The noodles have been boiling for a while and are finally soft enough to eat and so you need to quickly get them out of the hot water. You can’t put your hand in there and [...]

Pick Your Propulsion There is perhaps no better example of human ingenuity in the modern era than the automobile. In every city, of every country, across the entire world, motorized vehicles are taking people from home, to work, and back again in all types of cars and trucks. While many of these cars vary [...]