The engine in the hybrid car is powerful enough to move the car along on the freeway, but when it needs to get the car moving in a hurry, or go up a steep hill, it needs help. That "help" comes from the electric motor and battery — and this system steps in to provide the nec...
Prices ranged from $684 for the six-cylinder Special coupe to $1013 for the V-8 DeLuxe woody wagon -- the first factory-built Ford to break the $1000 barrier. But none of this did much for sales. While Ford's total volume improved to near 691,500, it remained about two-thirds of ...
I’m trying to find out why my new truck always reverts to Arabic whenever I restart my vehicle. I change it in settings and language but the minute I turn off the truck and restart it it’s back to Arabic and I repeat the process. Really getting annoyed and nothing on line of how...
When you are ready to sell your Harley-Davidson motorcycle, you will not only want to transfer the title of your motorcycle to the buyer, but you will want to transfer the warranty as well. Every new Harley-Davidson motorcycle comes with a two-year warranty that begins the day that you p...
The ignition lock is usually located on a motor vehicle’s steering column, dashboard or center console. When a key is inserted in the cylinder and turned, the vehicle’s engine will start. The ignition-lock cylinder is slotted to hold a unique ignition
The Rabbit (Golf to the rest of you) was a bit of a revolutionary car from a company as hidebound as VW. Granted, Mini and even Honda had already plowed this field, but VW had reach in places those companies didn’t. VW was a trusted brand; H...
A dragging clutch describes the symptom experienced by manual transmissions that involves the clutch disk failing to disengage the flywheel when the clutch pedal is pressed. The clutch is still spinning with the engine which makes it anywhere from difficult to impossible to change gears. This difficu...
If you get everything ready before you begin the switch, you can sometimes make the change quickly enough that the radio retains its station settings. In most vehicles, if the battery is only disconnected for a minute or two, the computers will not generate a battery code. If a code does...
It might be hard to change the operation carried out by a signal containing a valid code (it requires reverse engineering the signal itself) Some cars patched this vulnerability with a simple solution: instead of marking only received codes as used, the car can invalidate every code N+K with...
The bearing supports the shaft that connects the pulley outside the pump to the impeller inside the pump. After miles of use, it is not unusual for these bearings to wear out. In most cases, worn bearings will start to hum or whine and will change pitch with your engine RPM. When ...