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Sell it and buy a bicycle? Drive it less, walk, carpool or take a bus more often. Keep it maintained a drive like a grandmother to reduce the fuel usage/pollution. Make it the last car you ever buy.

Park it next to a trash can at your local fast food place, then throw away all the junk in there. Most trash piles up because there’s no where to put it.

When cleaning the dashboard with a spray cleaner/conditioner, the spray gets all over the inside of the front window. To avoid this, I took a large flat piece of cardboard and cut one of the long edges so that the corners are rounded to fit into the corners of the front window. On the other long ed…

Are you talking about cleaning the car itself or making it less toxic to the environment? If it is the later then I’m thinking of bringing my 1982 AMC Concord to the junk yard just to get it off the road. It still runs and the body is in pretty good shape for a Maine car considering that the state…

To clean my engine, I use Simple Green, full strength, applied from a spray bottle, like an empty Windex spray bottle. I use this on all my car’s engines when I first buy a car, doing it about once a month or so. My engines always look new, even after 5 years. Simple Green gets most of the crud of…

Don’t use dishwashing soap on your car’s paint: it strips all wax, and prolonged, repeated use eats at the clear coat (occasional use is OK). I don’t like the advice of diluting mild soap, whatever that soap is. Automotive soap exists for a reason and it’s not just to charge you more money. Good au…

You can also buy an engine degreaser (e.g. Stoner’s brand), which may work better than Simple Green in some circumstances. But Simple Green works quite well for most people. Warm up your engine before cleaning it (but don’t have it HOT, just warm), to help evaporate water.

So how do you clean a steering wheel that’s covered with one of those great sewn-on leather covers?

For cleaning leather, I have found Bluemagic Leather and vinyl cleaner works good followed by a good quality leather conditioner such as Meguiar’s

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I need help cleaning the engine! I’ve got an older car that has never had the engine cleaned and is now completely dirty! What is the best way to completely clean and shine my engine compartment? Thanks!

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