Find out how your car works – in plain English. We reveal all those tricky technical things that might have baffled you about your car
Our reader adds that ‘his friend’ drove the car at up to 70mph and floored the accelerator to ‘test its top speed’. When he stopped, there was a smell of…
Our reader’s VW Touran is the 1.6TDI model and it appears to overheat on motorways when he exceeds 60mph for any length of time. Garages have given up trying to…
Our reader has a 2010 Ford Fiesta 1.6 diesel. He recently changed the timing belt and water pump himself. He now gets white smoke coming from his car exhaust pipe…
Cars are increasingly doing away with the traditional manual handbrake and replacing them with electronic parking brakes. One of the benefits of these is they come with an autohold function.…
Our reader has a diesel Mercedes C220 Coupe. A faulty NOx sensor has been diagnosed but at the same time, the low AdBlue warning message came on. This says that…
Our reader wants to know if a self-charging petrol-electric hybrid can be driven as a petrol-only car following hybrid battery failure. There’s no simple answer as the reader doesn’t say…
Car makers fit regenerative braking to all new electric and plug-in hybrid cars. It’s a good thing because it essentially enables us to get something for nothing while we’re driving…
This is an interesting question because so much of how well people adopt EVs depends on the electric car charging infrastructure. And currently this appears to be undergoing some growing…
Our reader with the expensive repair has a 2014 Nissan Qashqai. Their garage has diagnosed damaged piston rings on one of the cylinders and damage to the camshaft. The problem…
Airbags are one of the great inventions of modern motoring. They live concealed in your car until they’re needed. Then they deploy in milliseconds to potentially reduce injuries and possibly…