Car Blog & Car News
The sweltering summer weather has seen a massive rise in drivers realising their air conditioning is not up to the job. Kwik Fit, the UK’s leading automotive servicing and repair company, carried out three times the number of aircon recharges last week when compared with both the previous week and the equivalent period last year. […]
We’ve recently had a spell of very hot weather and even some thunderstorms. With the discomfort that hot weather driving can bring, GEM Motoring Assist is taking the opportunity to offer advice that will help keep drivers cool and calm, even when it’s sweltering outside. GEM chief executive David Williams MBE says: “Making long journeys […]
Whilst most of us understand that in winter we need to top up the ‘anti-freeze’ to make sure that the engine will start in cold mornings, fewer know that in summer your car needs coolant. Don’t worry though, this product is exactly the same thing! This liquid consumable helps your car stay cool in winter […]
Millions of people will be out in their cars this bank holiday weekend, heading off for a holiday or visiting family and friends. And with the Spring bank holiday leading straight into the May half term for most schoolchildren, even more families will also be using the road networks for week-long staycations or journeys to […]
Road safety and breakdown organisation GEM Motoring Assist is calling on all road users, including pedestrians, to ensure they do everything possible to assist emergency vehicles on blue light journeys. The advice follows the sacking today Friday 15th May 2015 for gross misconduct of a school crossing patrol ‘lollipop man’ in Luton, who ignored a […]
There are a wide variety of products on the market that will claim to improve engine responsiveness, increase horsepowers, increase efficiency and lower emissions. But what do they consist of and do they actually work? I’ve used a few in the past and have had mixed results. So, we at Car Articles turned to science […]
On a day to day basis, it becomes all too easy to overlook the simple things that require checking on your car – such as oil, water, ancillary fluids, lights, tyres, tyre pressures etc. There’s so many that you could spend around 20 minutes before each journey giving it a good look over. We do […]
A faulty Tyre Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) is now an automatic MOT fail and is already catching motorists out – does your car have it and how do you know if it’s working? Millions of cars in the UK are fitted with tyre pressure monitoring systems, or TPMS, which monitor the vehicle’s tyre pressure and […]
Jaguar Land Rover will launch its new Land Rover Heritage division at the Techno Classica show in Essen, Germany between 15-19 April, 2015. Complementing the recently established Jaguar Heritage division, Land Rover Heritage will offer original Land Rover vehicle parts for a variety of heritage models that have been out of production for longer than […]
As with the previous statements issued by Suzuki regarding the possible issue with the Celerio, we will simply reproduce the text so that the message is not in any way diluted: Following a loss of braking experienced by Autocar magazine when carrying out an emergency braking test from high speed on a private road test […]