Take This Auto Shop Quiz and We’ll Give You a Muscle Car and a Pin-Up Girl to Hang Up

By: Ian Fortey
Estimated Completion Time
5 min
Take This Auto Shop Quiz and We’ll Give You a Muscle Car and a Pin-Up Girl to Hang Up
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About This Quiz

Pin-up models have been around for longer than cars have, with origins all the way back in burlesque. They were all about a tease more than anything explicit, just that hint of something a little dangerous and risque. Kind of like a muscle car! It was some next-level stuff. A car meant to stand above your typical everyday car. It had power; it could burn up the strip in a drag race. It was just plain cool. It was hip, young and sexy. So it's no wonder that garages around the world could be found with a muscle car parked inside and a pinup or two on the wall. They go together like peas and carrots. 

To honor that great tradition of muscle cars and pinup models, you really need to get your head in the car game. You need to be able to understand the fundamentals of what it means to be in the shop. You need to know when those brakes need to be bled, or when to rotate the tires, or how to buff out some scratches in your paint. If you can handle that, we'll match you up with the perfect muscle car and the perfect pinup model. Take the quiz and see how you do!

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How often should someone bring their car in for an oil change?
Whenever the owner's manual says
Every 5,000 miles
Once a year
When it starts smelling like it's burning

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What's an easy way to tell if tires need some more air?
Use a tire gauge.
Listen for that buzzy hum when you drive.
Your dash readout should tell you.
Eyeball it.

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The car's exhaust is coming out blue. What's going on there?
Check the seals; there's some leaking oil.
Sounds like a worn piston seal
Your oil filter needs to be changed.
If it's not a gender reveal thing. It could be an external engine oil leak.

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What's a good way to extend the life of your tires?
Regular rotation
Keeping them properly inflated.
Keep an eye on tread wear.
A regular wheel alignment

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How often do you want to rotate your tires?
Your manual probably has a good recommendation.
Every 10,000 miles
Around 5,000 miles
They rotate every time you drive, don't they?

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What's the danger of driving on underinflated tires?
Poor handling
It'll destroy your tires way faster than normal.
Ruins your gas mileage
You can't drive as fast!

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When's a good time to replace an air filter?
Every year
When you do an oil change
When it looks worn and busted
Your car has an air filter?

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Every car isn't the same. What's something that will require a car to get serviced more often?
Frequent driving in extreme weather conditions
Lots of long-distance driving
A car that's really old
Accidents

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What do you want to do when diagnosing any kind of electrical problem in a car?
Check all the fuses
Check for voltage with a test light
Use an ohmmeter
Clean or replace the spark plugs

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When's a good time to replace the V-belt?
When it starts to crack
Every 70,000 miles or so
Whenever the manual recommends it
Whenever you get car vehicle serviced

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The car doesn't start at all. What's your first guess about what's causing the problem?
Dead battery
Clogged oil filter
Starter failure
Out of gas!

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What's the one tool you want to have more than any other in a shop?
Wrenches
Impact wrench
Air ratchet
Pliers

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How are you bleeding the brakes?
Furthest from the master cylinder, then closest
Depends on how the hydraulics are split
Front to back
Need to know if it's a rear-wheel-drive or a front-wheel-drive

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You don't want to wear loose clothes in the shop. How come?
You could kill yourself.
Super easy to get caught in a machine
Risk of getting torn up
They're going to get dirty.

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If you're out in the field changing a tire where do you want to place the jack?
Under the frame near the tire that's being changed
Towards the front or the back, depending on the tire that's being changed.
Wherever gets the tire off the ground.
Dealer's choice

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What's the best way to fix a scratch in the paint?
Rubbing compound
Buff it out
Paint match and touch it up
The toothpaste trick!

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If a car has a serious vibration when it's driving, what could be causing it?
Unbalanced tires
Wonky brake rotors
The brake calipers are stuck
Bad air intake

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It can be pretty dangerous when a car pulls to one side. What are you checking to diagnose that issue?
The wheel alignment is the likeliest cause.
It could be something as simple as inconsistent tire pressure.
Have you ever heard of tire conicity? I'd look for that.
Uneven brakes could be an issue.

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Every mechanic meets a rusty bolt at some point. How do you remove them?
An impact wrench ought to do it.
WD40 is your friend.
You can bust out the torch in a pinch.
A wrench and a hammer

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If the headlights still work but not very well, what's the likely culprit?
Just an old, bad bulb
Alternator problem
Bad ground
An etched lens

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What's the hardest car to repair?
Audi A8
Jaguar XK
Range Rover
Anything you're not familiar with

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You can get 1,001 different tools. Which one of these is the most useless and overrated in an auto shop?
Manual tire changer
A lathe
Metalworking mill
Non-ratcheting offset screwdrivers

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What's the most important function of transmission fluid?
Lubricates
It cools.
Keeps the system clean
Keeps your gears from grinding to a stop

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Can you mix different colors of antifreeze?
You shouldn't do that.
If it's an even mix
Only if it's the same brand
Yeah, it's the same stuff.

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What's better in a radiator, water or coolant?
Use whatever your manual suggests.
A mix
Always coolant
In a pinch, some water can keep you going.

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Does a car need an alternator?
Of course!
Your car will run for a little while without one.
You need it, but if it breaks, you can still probably get to the shop.
If your battery is fully charged, you'll have some time to spare with no alternator.

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What does it mean when the battery light shows up on the display at startup?
That always happens on startup.
You may have an electrical disruption.
Your battery may be dead.
You're running only on battery power.

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What's the most common light that comes up on a dash display?
Check engine, probably
There's no way to know.
It depends on the car.
Low fuel

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What's the proper way to tighten a lug nut?
Follow your car's specs for lug nut torque.
Use a dial torque wrench until you hit the right tightness.
Lefty loosey, righty tighty
Hit it with the impact wrench until it clicks.

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What's the best kind of spark plug to use in a car?
Nickel alloy
Platinum
Iridium
Copper

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