A brake disc is usually an iron (or carbon composite) disc that is attached to the suspension of a car, motorcycle or even bicycle and is gripped by brake pads held in a brake caliper.
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...
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...
The average car is usually filled with such useful items as old parking tickets, empty food packets and, if you're lucky, a misshapen Mars bar wedged under the passenger seat. Trouble is, not even a glovebox full of Bon Jovi CDs will be of much help in the event of a breakdown or some extreme...
Even if you’re not an enthusiast, it pays to have an inkling about car maintenance when you go to a garage. And once you gain that basic understanding, you’ll start to realize just how much you can actually do yourself! Haynes is here to help you take control of your car maintenance, so read on to...
Thanks to improved reliability and developments in engine technology and fuel management systems, the process of tuning your car is changing to diagnostics - the science of fault diagnosis.
Diagnosis of automotive faults is sometimes a time-consuming process. Unless you are very lucky and...
Adjusting your car’s headlight aim should be left to a professional with the proper aiming equipment. However, you can make temporary adjustments for a lighting system which is critically out of adjustment.