The weather is taking a cold turn, and you know that the chilly and dark days of winter are essentially here, and only set to get worse in the coming weeks. You’ve likely been through at least a few winters with your current car already, if not several cars in the past. This being the […]
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When it comes to car maintenance, it’s easy to make everything about the engine. With all attention focused on the engine, other parts that need your care and investment can fall by the wayside. One such system actually happens to be just as critical as the engine, not to mention just as intricate (if not […]
If you were to ask your neighbours or friends about the type of transmission fluid their car uses, what do you think they would say? What would you say if you were asked the same question? If your answer is something like “the standard one” or “the same one everyone uses,” then you might be […]
Your automatic transmission is one of the most complex and mechanically difficult parts of your vehicle. If you service it regularly, it will serve you for a long time, perhaps the entire time that you own the car, and without any major incident. That would be great, of course, but it’s often not the experience […]
Have you ever had to pay for a replacement transmission before? If you have, then you know how expensive a job it can be. Even if you’re not getting a replacement but are having to conduct major repairs on the gearbox, the bills can still run very high. While it’s true that any automatic transmission […]
Have you ever skipped over a bit of maintenance for your car because you thought it was a “waste of money”? Perhaps you were a little short on funds one month so you thought the car could do without its regular service or maintenance because it seems to be running just fine anyway, right? If […]
When you’re experiencing serious car trouble, the best idea is always to go to a garage and let a professional mechanic take a look. Some people worry about this, however, because they are afraid of the mechanic discovering some major component that needs replacing or major repairs, and a major bill coming at the end […]
Drivers of automatic transmission cars sometimes revel in the fact that the car they’re driving doesn’t have a clutch pedal. They’ll say, “Everything is easier when there’s no clutch.” Well, there’s certainly no clutch pedal in an automatic car, but there is still a clutch…you just can’t see it. The fact that you don’t interact […]
For many decades, and even though automatic cars have long been widely available in the UK car market, manual transmission cars remained top dog…until November 2020. That was when it was first reported that for the first time ever, new automatic car sales in the UK were more than half of all car sales – […]
The automatic car segment in the UK has long been a minority as most people have preferred to drive more efficient manual cars. In a country where petrol is so expensive and automatic technology relatively wasteful, that’s no surprise. On top of that, automatic cars were invariably slower in acceleration and lacked the performance pep. […]