This is not a very usual problem but many daily drivers may have encountered it. The situation where the car develops on short notice this issue is not that often and it can have some precise causes. I have encountered this problem on every type of engine and I have some advice regarding the detection …

As you remember, at the beginning of this week we discussed a few basic methods of reducing the fuel consumption. As you could previously see, the methods described were pretty simple to follow but just by following them the decrease in fuel consumption wouldn’t be significant. Now it’s time to discuss some extreme ways of …

The discussion about driving to save fuel goes on and on for a very long time. There are a lot of tips on the internet about saving fuel and there are also a lot of magical devices that will definitely decrease by half your fuel consumption. Yes, of course… The truth is only one with …

This can be a really unpleasant situation and with all the technology integrated in modern cars, it can be avoided. Today there is a computer for everything. Start the engine? No problem! ‘The computer’ will do that. Open a window? Of course! ‘The computer’ will sort that thing for you. Turn left? ‘The computer’ will …

Now that we have established that is quite unlikely to have a brake failure due to the construction of the braking system and that is relatively simple to stop a car just by using the rolling resistance, it’s time to analyze some other methods of stopping the car without brakes. Please be advised that the …

This is a driver’s worst nightmare. I had a lot of dreams where the brakes couldn’t stop my car and I couldn’t do anything. Fortunately for us, this is very hard to happen in the real life. Why? First of all because the brake system is at least 3 times redundant. You have two separate …

The answer to this question used to be simple. Now, with all the electronic components integrated in the modern cars, it could be a hard, if not impossible, answer to give without connecting the car to a computer. There are though some tricks you can try if you knew your way around an engine. The …