Your handbrake or emergency brake comes into its element when parking your car. Even though it doesn’t have as much clamping force as the power boosted foot brakes, it can keep your vehicle from rolling down the slope or moving with the engine on idle. If your parking brake fails, your car could roll away
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A blown head gasket is always bad news to your engine. It needs immediate repair. If you don’t attend to it, chances are it will ruin your engine’s core. The key to surviving a blown head gasket is knowing the signs in advance. When a head gasket goes bad, it leaves some openings between the
With life getting more connected, the number of gadgets we need charging is on the rise. But, while modern cars have more power points to keep us juiced up, older cars struggle to keep up. Technically, the only power outlet in the car is your cigarette power plug. It wasn’t even originally meant to power
Most vehicles with a rear solid axle are true workhorses. They pull hard, and most of their owners treat them well too. Since they are expected to put so much torque to the ground when heavily loaded, they rely on the solid rear axle to keep going instead of CV joints. However, most truck and
Tires are the point where the road meets your car. They determine how much traction you can get. This translates to how much power you can put to the ground when accelerating or how much grip you can get when braking and cornering. Since your tires have such a huge responsibility, it’s only sensible to
Tire blowouts happen when a big failure somewhere on your tire forces the air inside to escape forcefully. This forceful escape causes a fast deflation and could even lead to an explosion. However, as tire technology gets better (especially after switching from tubed to tubeless tires), blowouts are getting less common. Most modern, high-quality tires
Your exhaust gases might sound like a waste that you shouldn’t concern yourself with. Not true. Even though it’s waste, a leak that doesn’t let it flow all the way to the exhaust pipe tip at the rear of the car is bad news. Your exhaust system consists of different connections and components. It consists
Modern fuel-injected cars use a set of sensors to determine how much fuel to spray into the cylinders on each ignition cycle. The primary sensors in this closed-loop system are the Mass Airflow Sensor (MAF) and an upstream oxygen sensor. Your car’s ECU uses the information from these two sensors to actively adjust how much
Power windows are synonymous with modern cars. Winding up or down a window at the touch of a button is mainstream. Some vehicles even have automatic windows that do it all with a single touch of a button. While your power windows will keep on going up and down for ages, there are times when
Your windshield washer system is simple. It’s an electric pump that delivers pressurized fluid to the nozzles at the front or rear of your car. In such a simple system, there are very few fail points. This is why these systems seem always to work. However, if you are unlucky or drive a very old