Find out how your car works – in plain English. We reveal all those tricky technical things that might have baffled you about your car
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…
After its steering, the brakes are probably the most important of your car’s controls. Sometimes car brakes squeak, squeal or screech depending on your viewpoint and the problem. This can…
WLTP is everywhere at the moment and it’s being cited as one of the reasons cars sales enjoyed a bit of a hiccough in the early part of 2019. WLTP…
Checking how much motor oil your engine has is one of the easiest and most important jobs you’ll do as a car owner. An engine relies on its oil to…
As the weather warms up, problems with car air conditioning tend to become apparent. When you switch the air con on and turn it right down, there should be an…
Every year around four in 10 cars fail the UK MOT test yet the government claims that around half of all failures could be easily prevented. Although garages frequently don’t…
Compared to regular petrol or diesel, premium fuels usually have racy sounding names such as V-Power Nitro+, Ultimate, Momentum or Synergy Supreme+. And there will be various claims that these…