As your factory warranty comes to a close, you may find yourself wondering whether your car is safe without an extended powertrain plan. It’s smart to consider the following as you think of what a powertrain plan covers on used cars as well as high-mileage vehicles: Is your car dependable?
The Controller Area Network (CAN bus) is a message-based protocol designed to allow the Electronic Control Units (ECUs) found in today’s automobiles, as well as other devices, to communicate with each other in a reliable, priority-driven fashion. Messages or “frames” are received by all ...
If the Check Engine light is blinking repeatedly, it means that the engine computer has detected that your engine is misfiring, which means that some of the engine cylinders are not working properly. Driving with a misfiring engine could damage your catalytic converter, which is a very expensive...
Jul 6/16 - P0486 EGR, U0121 ABS communication module codes Jul 3/16 - P0039 turbo/superchager bypass valve control circuit code, P0685, P0686 ECM/PCM power relay control circuit code Jul 2/16 - P0314 Single cylinder misfire, P0315 crank position variation not learned, P0706, P0707,...
So how is Ford squeezing another 150 lb-ft and 25 hp out of the 6.7L Power Stroke platform? You may be surprised to learn that very little is different between the standard output and high output engines other than a PCM calibration. But what won’t surprise you is that the...
Nowadays, Lincolns is a car brand that doesn’t get much love these days. Despite its foundation more than a century ago, Lincoln isn’t the name people associate with luxury vehicles. Being a luxury division of Ford, Lincoln used to be the leader in the luxury segment but is now strugg...
ABS Module The antilock brake system runs through the ABS module. ABS Fluid Level What would cause my abs light to come on? An ABS light on is often caused by a damaged wire to the front sensors or the sensors themselves. The light may come and go as the cause is intermittent. You ...
at which this is performed; the default of 48kHz perhaps indicates NAD’s view of excessive sample rates, as does the fact that playback via any method tops out at 24-bit /192kHz, with no support for DSD at all (other than NAD suggesting you convert such files to PCM for playback)...
What is the CAN FD? CAN FDis a “Flexible Data (Rate)” version of the CAN bus. The standard length of each message has been increased by 800% to 64 bytes, and the maximum data rate has been similarly increased from 1 Mbps to 8 Mbps. The “flexible” part refers to the fact that...