SMART CAR When many think German cars, all they picture in their minds are some power loaded cars with some interesting performance and some sideways actions. Well, the smart car is one smart little German subcompact car company having Mercedes Benz…
I was going to show a client who doubles as a friend a vehicle he was very much interested in purchasing. I had bathed my baby at a car wash and was looking forward to the praises from my friend’s lips.…
Tyres are a major part of cars as round as they are and as non-mechanical or metallic. There are several numbers on the side walls of your tyres and they have their various meanings which should not be overlooked when choosing…
From the times cars started showing up, there have been upgrades a whole lot of people found hard to accept. Fuel injectors gave carburettors sliding tackle but it didn’t want to fall because several people believed the injectors were problematic and…
SUVs have their centres of gravity (CoG) further from the ground. Generally, a car rolls because the vehicle enters a bend too sharply and doesn’t have the low CoG and configurations to help it into a drift or alternately, it is…
Most people immediately hit this button when they enter their hot car on a warm day. Many simply leave it on all the time. That’s the “Recirculate” button. It causes your ventilation system to close the outside air intakes, and simply…
If the fuel nozzle clicks off before your tank is full and it happens often regardless of what station or
pump you are using, then there is something wrong with your tank’s evaporative emissions system and
you should check it out.
Some manufacturers purposely set their fuel gauges so that the gauge moves slower from full to 1/2
tank on the gauge than it does for 1/2 to empty on the gauge. You may have noticed that several fuel
gauges once full and in use seem to not want to leave the ‘full’ area….
It turned out that I had the same car as several others around but the only issue was that it didn’t seem like I had the same fuel economy as the others and I got angry every time I fuelled the car. I could have no more after a weekend trip with my brother and his family in their own car to visit my Dad
