Top tips to make looking after your car easy. Find out how to choose the best oil, check your motor before a long trip and change its windscreen wipers
There are various important things to do before storing a car for winter. And many of them are far more important than changing all the fluids for the sake of…
Your car has vents in the cabin that pull air in from the outside. But before it comes out of the vents, that air goes through a filter. This is…
There aren’t many worse things than being couped up in a car with a really bad smell. Part of the problem is a car is such a confined space. Bad…
It’s true that the older cars get, the more likely they are to require expensive work. From what we understand, our reader’s Honda Accord needs a new exhaust and some…
Along with oil, coolant is a vital fluid for an engine. It’s worth checking the coolant in your engine regularly and if it needs topping up, getting the right coolant…
Changing the oil is a vital part of any engine’s service. The more oil is used, the more it degrades and the less effective it becomes at lubricating the various…
Alloy wheels can suffer corrosion for a wide variety of reasons. How it’s treated depends on the cause of it. In some cases, repair might be a simple do-it-yourself job.…
Performing an oil change on a car is, on paper, one of the simpler maintenance jobs. As oil is continually circulated through an engine to lubricate moving parts it needs…
If there’s one thing internal combustion engines are good at, it’s generating heat. But all that cool air flowing into the engine bay as you drive along stops things getting…
Electric cars might be technically more complex than models with an internal combustion engine but they actually require less servicing. This is because electric motors have far fewer moving parts.…