Five Tips For De-icing Your Car On a Frosty Morning
This winter you’ll be fighting two enemies on your windscreen – ice and condensation. But we can do this, right?
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Five Ways to Be Ready for Shorter Days and Fall Weather
Halloween has come and gone, the leaves are changing, and the clocks have already changed - this is the perfect time to give your car a once over and make sure it is ready for the shorter days, colder temperatures, and increased precipitation that comes with the change of seasons. Your Haynes...
Is Your Car Ready For the Summer Heat?
Winter weather is hard on both car and driver, but the summer heat presents a whole different set of challenges. No longer do you have to worry about having enough traction to make it up that hill, but you do have to worry that your car's cooling system can handle a mile long climb in 100+...
5 Signs You're Driving Your Car Too Hard
Come on now, admit it, we’ve all done it - acted like we were the star of our own action movie "Drive Hard!" Whether it was when we were young and new behind the wheel, or whether it’s just become a character trait of your driving, it happens to everyone. We’ve all pushed a car a bit too...
How to Jack Up a Car and Change a Flat Tire
What is the best way to jack up your car to change a tire? The jack supplied with your vehicle is designed by the manufacturer only for raising the vehicle to change a tire in an emergency. Don’t even think about using it for anything else! No matter what jack you are using, you should never rely...
Coast in Gear or Neutral for Better MPG?
It is the sort of question that comes up on road trips, in internet comment sections, and when talking to you gearhead friends: Is it more efficient to put the car in neutral (or push in the clutch) and coast, or leave it in gear and let the engine slow the car down? Obviously, this situation only...
10 Most Common Breakdown Causes
The most common causes of calls reported by the roadside assistance providers vary slightly each year, but averaged out over the last few years, the top ten causes of breakdowns are as follows
8 Things That Could Fall Off Your Car Tomorrow
8 Things That Could Fall Off Your Car Tomorrow - It is a fact of life, over times screws loosen and things fall off. It could be poor maintenance, procrastination, unexpected impacts or just plain forgetfulness, but the result is the same; a trail of parts behind you as you drive down the lane.
10 Holiday Road Trip Games to Pass the Time
These days we all have smartphones or tablets to keep us entertained on the road, even the kids. But instead of just distracting them with bright digital colors and moving objects, why not encourage them to take in the actual colors and objects passing by right outside the windows. These games may...
The Haynes Teardown Ford F-150 Pickup Truck: Road Test
Haynes produces its manuals based on a teardown and reassembly of an example of the vehicle being covered. One of our latest books covers the new generation, aluminum-bodied Ford F-150 trucks, and we recently just finished taking one apart and putting it back together, so I road tested it out to...