Technical trouble made simple
In line with much else inside our cars, changing gear by hand is becoming a thing of the past. An increasing number of cars are offered with automatic gearboxes. And…
The modern car is a computer-powered marvel and limp home is a good example of that. Read on to see what it is. What is limp home mode? Every car…
Cars are now coming with an increasing amount of standard safety kit. Among these is Autonomous Emergency Braking or AEB. It’s a safety system designed to prevent the front-to-rear shunts…
ESC is one of the most important safety features the car industry has developed. The letters stand for Electronic Stability Control. Some car companies call it ESP Electronic Stability Programme,…
Cars powered by hydrogen already are on our roads. But you’ve probably got as much chance of seeing something fairly niche such as a Rolls-Royce Cullinan as seeing a hydrogen…
Spare wheels, or rather the lack of them, is one of the things that really makes some drivers mad. A recent survey showed the lack of a full-size spare was…
Since the mid-1990s there have been ever-increasing numbers of airbags in a car. Your concern is a valid one. Afterall, airbags use an explosive to deploy in fractions of a…
An engine’s performance is measured in two ways: power and in increasing popularity, torque. This is frequently used in car makers’ sales literature because the heavier our cars get, the…
ABS stands for Anti-lock Braking System. It’s been fitted to all new cars since 2004. The aim of it is to help drivers to maintain control when they’re braking heavily.…
Slightly confusingly, there’s more than one type of hybrid car. There’s the standard hybrid, the mild hybrid and the Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV). To further confuse matters, some models…