About Craig Daugherty

Writer, amateur photographer, and BMW nerd to the core.

How To Clean Your Car With Zach Jobe and Donut Media

You may have read our recent article about what you need to inspect or possibly do to safely bring your car out of storage as we prepare for normal activities to ramp up again, which is good. If you followed that checklist through, you probably saw where we talked about washing your car, detailing it, [...]

2020-04-28T14:37:57-04:00April 28th, 2020|Body & Exterior|Comments Off on How To Clean Your Car With Zach Jobe and Donut Media

Ten Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the BMW E30

The E30 is one of the most iconic cars of the last three decades and cemented BMW as the perfect choice for a compact, rear-wheel-drive, performance coupe. It offered multiple body styles, engine choices, trim packages, and over 2.4 million were produced between 1982 and 1994. With such a celebrated history, there is little that [...]

2020-04-27T14:55:49-04:00April 27th, 2020|BMW|1 Comment

How to Get Your Car Ready To Drive Again After Not Driving For Weeks

While we’re all sheltering in place, we’ve come to realize how much this adversity has affected nearly every function of our daily lives. Staying in and limiting our trips to stores for essential supplies is certainly the best course of action, but we’re now seeing unexpected outcomes from doing so and I’m not talking about [...]

2020-04-24T13:19:32-04:00April 24th, 2020|About, Audi, BMW, Car Care, DIYs, Porsche, Schwaben, Tech Tips, Volkswagen|Comments Off on How to Get Your Car Ready To Drive Again After Not Driving For Weeks

Throwback Thursday: A European Experience 2018 Story

Continuing the trend of normal content, it’s Thursday, which makes it the perfect day to do a throwback article. I’m more creative than just re-running an old article, so let’s take a look back at one of my favorite experiences since joining ECS in 2017. That would have to be the European Experience 2018 trip [...]

2020-04-23T15:12:20-04:00April 23rd, 2020|About, ECS Show Nation, Project Cars|Comments Off on Throwback Thursday: A European Experience 2018 Story

Best European Bug-Out Vehicle to Escape the Apocalypse?

Yup, this is it. This is my limit. If I hear ‘unprecedented times,’ ‘flatten the curve,’ ‘shelter-in-place,’ or any of the other common language that has assaulted our ears any more, I am going to pull a Henry Thoreau and build a one-room cabin by a lake in the woods and just write a journal [...]

2020-04-21T11:34:20-04:00April 20th, 2020|About, Audi, BMW, Volkswagen|Comments Off on Best European Bug-Out Vehicle to Escape the Apocalypse?

Brand New ECS Red Carbon-Kevlar Intake System for your Volkswagen MK7 GTI

Upgrades that give your car both a visual improvement and a boost in performance are the best-case option when it comes to modifications. With the improvement in carbon-fiber technology and rapid development for aftermarket upgrades, the future has yielded some incredibly creative approaches to these dual-purpose parts. Namely, our newest line of carbon fiber upgrades [...]

2020-04-16T17:09:33-04:00April 16th, 2020|Engine, Intake, Volkswagen|Comments Off on Brand New ECS Red Carbon-Kevlar Intake System for your Volkswagen MK7 GTI

Upgrades you can Afford with the 2020 Stimulus Check

Millions of Americans woke up this morning to an extra $1,200 in their accounts thanks to the Congressionally passed ‘Covid-19 Stimulus Bill’ that is designed to help reinvigorate the economy and provide much-needed assistance to those out of work struggling to pay for necessities. If you’re like most people, this stimulus check is effectively money [...]

2020-04-15T15:52:10-04:00April 15th, 2020|Audi, BMW, DIYs, Exhaust, Performance, Volkswagen, Wheels|Comments Off on Upgrades you can Afford with the 2020 Stimulus Check

Take Some Time to Enjoy this Insane Barn Find Ammo NYC Found

While we are all sheltering in place to help stop the spread of C19, we are diving down rabbit holes of home projects, DIY jobs, and anything we’ve put off over the past few years. During that rabbit hole, I’m sure you are all like me and have found new and exciting ways to entertain [...]

2020-04-14T13:05:55-04:00April 14th, 2020|Audi, BMW, Car Care, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Volkswagen, Wheels|Comments Off on Take Some Time to Enjoy this Insane Barn Find Ammo NYC Found

How to Organize Your Project Goals

Organization is important. It’s all about developing good habits and creating structure in your life that allows you to accomplish more and stay motivated. With car projects, I have this tendency to jump around on what I want to do. It's easy to think of all the things I want to do, but difficult to [...]

2020-04-09T17:18:52-04:00April 9th, 2020|Uncategorized|Comments Off on How to Organize Your Project Goals
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