Car Maintainance

On regular basis car owners are ripped off by mechanics. This is almost a very common occurrence, when someone goes to a mechanic, they entrust that person with a vehicle they rely on for moving around. A mechanic has special knowledge about one’s car. He knows everything about what makes it …

Trying to avoid misplacing the keys to your home, work-place or other places could bring about the temptation of have one key-chain holding all these keys together. This need makes some car owners to add more keys to their car key-chain but is this a good thing to do? Adding …

Materials used to manufacture car body parts have changed significantly over the decades. Early vehicle bodies were mostly made of heavier steel materials but as time went on, the need for good fuel economy and speed brought about the introduction of lighter materials to reduce drag. Aluminium, stainless steel, Poly-Carbonate and …

A blown fuse can be annoying, but it actually helps prevent electrical damage and fire. A fuse is a low-resistance resistor device that protects a circuit from becoming overloaded. It is a short piece of wire that is designed to melt and break apart when exposed to an excess of …

A number of car owners in the country who owns vehicles with sun-roofs don’t entirely know the benefits of this useful feature or care about it. Sun-roof is the window like opening which is mounted on the rooftop of some cars and SUV’s. Sun-roofs are offered with most luxury cars and …

You can almost liken the working of an engine to how we breath. We inhale oxygen and exhale carbon-dioxide. The exhaled air contains gases that the body do not need—a by-product of our respiration. A car’s engine functions pretty much the same way. Air goes into the engine and is …

Air conditioning is one thing that makes a driving experience more comfortable. This is a necessity in every car, especially during those hot periods of the day or during the rain. This is why the absence of an air conditioner or issues relating to the air conditioner bothers quite a …

There maybe times you will need to cover up scratches on the body of your car or perhaps do a paint job on your car. How do you know the exact colour to use? Vehicle manufactures have also thought this through and have developed what is known as colour code …

Majority of cars diagnosed in Nigeria for “Check Engine” light that comes on are commonly pointing out O2 sensors as one of or the only DTC (Diagnostic Trouble Codes) to be found. This O2 fault has become so common that some technicians ignore it. Ignoring this DTC is not a good …

Perhaps this term is not strange to you. So far you are an active driver, you may have had to take your vehicle for tyre balancing and alignment servicing. A number of car owner’s and users see wheel balancing and alignment as just a routine service and nothing more. But …