Maintenance Tips, Tricks And Hacks For Your Vehicle
Category: General Hacks
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8 Common Noises Your Car Makes and How To Fix Them
When your car starts developing a problem, often the first sign is going to be an unfamiliar sound that you hear when you’re driving. This is the way your car will communicate with you and indicate that something is wrong. To avoid major repair bills, it’s best if you know what each sound means so…
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How To Helicoil Damaged Spark Plug Threads
As you replace spark plugs over time, the aluminum threads that secure them become worn. This occurs because spark plugs have metal heads and as you tighten them, it starts pulling threads out of their aluminum heads. When your spark plug threads become damaged, they are no longer secure and may wobble when you start…
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Can You Drive With a Blown Spark Plug?
Spark plugs can blow out and cause a lot of problems such as lack of acceleration, bad gas mileage, rough idle, and weird noises. But many people ask ”can you drive with a blown spark plug?” Is it safe to get your vehicle to the repair shop or should you call a tow truck once…
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9 Symptoms of Bad Spark Plugs
Spark plugs play a crucial role in the combustion process. They receive the high voltage electrical current from the ignition coil. The spark plug is used to ignite the mixture of air and fuel in the combustion chamber and helps prevent serious issues with your car. This ignition occurs a thousand times a minute to…
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Is It Dangerous To Drive a Car Without Airbags?
The most important thing about vehicles is not their look, it is their safety features. Vehicles have primary and secondary restraint systems. The first restraint system is the seatbelts, and the second is the airbags. If for some reason you see the airbag light illuminated on the dashboard, is it dangerous to drive a car…
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Is It Safe To Drive With a Bad Crankshaft Position Sensor
The crankshaft position sensor is a sensor that tells the computer what position the engine is in. Then the computer knows where to fire the fuel injectors and when to fire the ignition spark plugs. So when they go bad, the car will often run very poorly. Is it safe to drive with a bad…
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Parts Of Cars, Their Location and Function: COMPLETE GUIDE
We all have seen cars. Most of us even drove one. But, do you know what cars are made of? Their parts, location, and function? When we get something new, we always read the instructions to learn how it operates and what is it made of. Why should it be different with cars? I know,…