The Wrong Tools for the Job

The wrong tools for the job can cause more damage than help if you aren't careful. When working on sheet metal a wrong swing of a hammer, the wrong hammer and dolly can cause damage to your panel that will take 3-4 times as long to fix. You ALWAYS want to match your hammer face and dolly to the shape of the panel your working on. If you're working on a flat panel this isn't ever a panel, but as soon as you get into a corner, a curve, or a hard-to-reach area you may need to go outside your simple starter kit of hammers and dollies.

Custom Paint Doesn't come from a Can! Eastwood Intermix System

Truly restoring a car means that you have to follow the factory specs of what your car should have looked like when new. There isn't much room for creativity when building up your car in that manner. On the other hand custom cars leave the doors wide open for what you can do. Whether its a mild custom with just some things done to clean up the appearance of your vehicle or if it involves creating an entire new persona of your stocker. When it comes to painting a custom car you don't want to just go with a stock color that everyone else at the next show will have on their car. Custom Paint mixing can be a scary task and many factors can change the color or "formula" along the way. We decided to take away some of the complexity of picking and mixing a custom color for your ride.

Bear with us while we update our CSS and Sidebar tonight to something a little more modern

Please feel free to leave comments, complaints, issues, death threats below.

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(Also banner is up to you guys, we may have a banner contest)

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As a sidenote, if you care about the History of /r/Cars

• Dec 8th 2008 - 99 subscribers - https://web.archive.org/web/20081208180709/http://www.reddit.com/r/cars

• Jun 14th 2011- 4k subscribers - https://web.archive.org/web/20110614224044/http://www.reddit.com/r/cars

• Oct 29 2012 - 50k subscribers - https://web.archive.org/web/20121029141407/http://www.reddit.com/r/cars

• Dec 21 2013 - 100k subscribers - https://web.archive.org/web/20131221164213/http://www.reddit.com/r/cars

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Eastwood Plastic Resurfacer Saves Weathered Motorcycle Parts- A Customer Review

We always encourage customers to leave us feedback and reviews on products, but every now and then a customer goes above and beyond! Recently Rick M. sent us a link to a review he did on our Plastic Resurfacer on his motorcycle discussion forum. The "after photos" and review was so good we had to pass it on to customers. This entire review below is unedited and as-posted on the Concours Owners Group Forum. Thanks for sharing Rick, we appreciate the feedback!

What Makes Us Tick- Andy B. Eastwood Product Manager

I came from the Automotive Aftermarket where I developed OEM replacement parts for the better part of a decade. As a kid my addiction to cars started with building a go-cart with my father who is a pipe fitter by trade. I then graduated to British sports cars, which broke the bank for a high school student trying to build off of a part time budget. Eventually, I found myself working on Jeeps and other off-road vehicles. Little did I know, a cheap Jeep Cherokee project would shape my automotive future.

'What car should I buy' mega thread. Also help others buy. Post in here.

Keep in mind there is also /r/whatcarshouldibuy if you want to start your very own thread.

Stand alone car choosing threads will be deleted. If you have settled on a specific model or particular car, by all means start a thread. *

Please note your budget, general location (US, Canada, Australia, Europe, Asia, etc), and your preferred features.

Looking for a used car and don't know how to tell the good from the bad? Our used car buying thread in the sidebar can help.

/r/askcarsales also has a great sidebar FAQ for buying both new and used cars.

Looking for a $5K car give or take? We have a graphic in the sidebar.

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*You're welcome to make a thread starter on a specific car/model, but remember that /r/cars is a clearing house for general car info. The best resource when asking about a specific car is targeted forums. Considering an Audi, BMW, Jaguar, Porsche, or Land Rover? Find the specific subreddit (master list in the sidebar) or outside forums. Chances are that your questions have been answered many times over. Nobody here is going to have the kind of indepth info you can find there.

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We start a new thread on this topic every Sunday night. Feel free to repost if you have posted late in the week.

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How to Tighten up a Weld Seam on a Patch Panel.

No one's perfect, but we can do our best to strive to get the closest we can get to perfection every day. These ideals are the same whether you're a cook, a machinist, a landscaper, or a guy in his garage building an old car or motorcycle. One big lesson I've learned over the past few years has been to slow down and take the time to make sure that parts fit together as nice as possible before welding. Just blindly rough cutting a piece and trying to make it fit another piece is going to end with an uneven weld seam and won't end well!