How to charge a flat car battery
You know the sickening feeling when you turn the key and engine barely turns over? Well read on to find out what to do…
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How to buy a Peugeot 206 (2002-09)
The Peugeot 206 is a popular, small family hatchback, offered in three and five-door forms and a convertible called the CC. There are loads to choose from on the used car market, with prices slightly lower than those asked for Ford Fiestas and VW Polos.
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What are Diagnostic Trouble Codes?
Modern cars are very clever, and most of them will actually be able to tell you what’s wrong if they have a problem.
What is a head gasket and what does it do
A head gasket is the gasket that sits between the cylinder head and the block. Its job is to seal the two mating surfaces of the top and bottom halves of the engine. This means, unlike any other gasket in an engine, the head gasket has to seal oil, coolant, and compression from the cylinders...
Turbo vs non-turbo: what is the difference
A turbocharger is an easy way to get a significant amount of extra power out of an engine. It is, in essence, two fans connected by a rod, all encased in a housing. One of these fans sits in the airflow of the engine’s exhaust, while the other sits in the engine’s air intake.
What is a camshaft in your car’s engine
An engine’s camshaft controls the operation of the valves in a cylinder head. Without it, the engine won’t work.
5 things that go wrong with pistons (and how to prevent them)
Pistons in modern engines are built to last but sometimes things can go wrong. We've rounded up some of the most common piston failures and what you can do to prevent it...
How a car engine works
The dictionary defines an engine as a machine with moving parts that converts power into motion. That being so, when we consider how a car engine works we can ignore many of the extra parts (the water pump, the alternator, the starter motor and so on) that many people would also consider to be a...
Dashboard warning lights you can't ignore
So you switch on your engine, all those lights on the dash come on and then, after a few seconds, they all go off again… except that sometimes they don’t.
What is a transmission on your car?
What is a transmission when it comes to your vehicle? A transmission is another name for a car’s gearbox, the component that turns the engine’s power into something the car can use. Simply, without it, you’d sit in your car with the engine running, going nowhere.
