• 2014 Engine Oil Capacities Coverage is Here

    2014 Engine Oil Capacities Coverage is Here Need the oil capacity for a 2014 vehicle? Good news – our Editorial Team has recently completed all of the 2014 oil capacity specifications. This includes information straight from the Owner’s Manual for all 2014 domestic and import vehicles.  The team is now filling in the 2015 models […]

  • Our First Factoid Friday Winner!

    Our First Factoid Friday Winner! Thanks to everyone who submitted a guess in our first-ever Factoid Friday trivia game! The Factoid Friday game uses the iconic pieces of automotive history from the Mitchell 1 Library as the basis for trivia guessing game. The question for June was, “What is the total weight (in pounds/ounces) of the Mazda 3 […]

  • Handy Info for Code Lookups

    Handy Info for Code Lookups At Mitchell1, we pride ourselves in bringing OEM information from multiple sources to your fingertips in an easy-to-use platform. With 26 different OEMs to pull information from, the formatting is often varies a bit between different manufacturers. And sometimes, a manufacturer will even change a lookup for the same vehicle but different model years! With […]

  • 10 (or more?) Commandments for Mechanics

    10 (or more?) Commandments for Mechanics There are plenty of versions of the “10 Commandments for Mechanics” floating around the Internet. I’m sure that you’ve seen your share of them, too. We recently ran across this version of “10 Mechanic Commandments” on the Mechanic Advisor website, and thought it addresses some good advice while staying […]

  • How 3D Color Graphics Help You

    How 3D Color Graphics Help You OEMs are starting to switch from the traditional black and white line drawings to color 3D style graphics. And wow, what an improvement! Ford is just one example. The 2013 Ford repair information includes the use of more and more of these types of illustrations. The benefits to you as a […]

  • Throwback Thursday – My First Car

    Throwback Thursday – My First Car Do you remember your first car?  How about the first car that you had to pay for yourself? Maybe they were one and the same.  I remember my first ride: a 1974 Ford Mustang II Ghia — Red! — with a 4-speed standard transmission. Ok, I’ll give you a moment […]

  • Throwback Thursday: Dad’s Old Chevy

    Throwback Thursday: Dad’s Old Chevy I was too short to see over the fender of my dad’s 1970 Chevy ¾ ton pickup, but I can see it in my mind as if it was yesterday.  White with the Chevy emblem reverse painted in the back window.  Dad’s sitting on the opposite fender, feet in the […]

  • Your SureTrack Feedback is Important to Us!

    Your SureTrack Feedback is Important to Us! As a followup to our blog post on ProDemand Feedback, we thought it might be useful to explain the feedback system in SureTrack and how it differs from ProDemand. At this point, there are slightly different processes for ProDemand and SureTrack feedback and it’s important to understand how […]

  • A Conversation about ProDemand – Listen In!

    A Conversation about ProDemand – Listen In! Our own Ben Johnson, Mitchell 1’s Director of Product Development, had a chance this morning to sit down and chat about ProDemand via a live Google “Hangout” with Peter Meier, Technical Editor of MotorAge Magazine. Ben shared insights into how ProDemand was designed with technicians in mind, to […]

  • Meet Howard Brown, Manager of Product Content Support

    Behind the Scenes at Mitchell 1: Meet Howard Brown, Manager of Product Content Support Have you ever called the Product Content Support (PCS) team at Mitchell 1 to get help researching a difficult repair? If you haven’t, we’re glad you’re reading this blog post, because we’re going to give you some great information about this […]