Car advice for people whose age and IQ are both over 50.
CAR OWNERS ARE BEING ADVISED NOT TO resort to quick-fix online ‘hacks’ to remove the growing quantities of tree sap currently being deposited onto vehicles. The use of unconventional chemicals and sharp objects can cause
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BACK IN THE DIM DARK ages, checking your tyre pressures was a weekly event (assuming you followed the advice of tyre companies and safety experts). However, the advent of Tyre Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS) now
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EVERY YEAR AS TEMPERATURES begin to rise, we hear the same old myths about car air conditioning – it ruins your fuel economy, it can be bad for your health, you don’t need it when
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SOME FUEL COMPANIES ARE SPENDING considerable advertising dollars to convince us that using their premium fuels will help our cars run cleaner, but is it all marketing hype? Or is there a reason to spend
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IT SEEMS TO US that EV buyer education is woefully inadequate. Now there’s another issue that EV owners should be aware of (and from what we can tell, most of them aren’t). Electric vehicles (including
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IN A CLEVER MARKETING MOVE (and one that is unlikely to be repeated in Australia) UK car company Honda has launched a brand-new accessory pack for dogs. Available to buy now, marking International Dog Day,
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WE MADE A PRESENTATION to a large group of people some months ago and were surprised to realise just how little most of them knew about electric vehicles. This is hardly unexpected since we have
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PERHAPS NOT, BUT YOU may find yourself copping a fine for polluting. Most often, when a diesel engine is emitting undue amounts of black smoke from the exhaust pipe, it’s as simple as a blocked
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SOME PEOPLE ARE concerned that using the air conditioner in a car while sitting idling may not be a good idea. Of course, sitting in traffic is often the time you need cooling in the
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DURING THE CURRENT pandemic, many of us are driving less than usual, either because we’re working from home, limited in where we can travel or simply leaving the car in the garage. In April 2020,
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