Category Archives: Maintenance

During your car’s lifetime there’s a good chance you might have to replace the door. Perhaps there’s too much rust damage or it has become dented in an accident or scrape. It is usually pretty obvious when your car needs replacing and you should be able to come across a spare or replacement part quite easily for common makes and models of vehicle.

As with all moving parts in your car, the steering rack is likely to wear down over time and experience fatigue. This will take a few years, but the tell-tale signs are in the responsiveness of the car’s steering. If turning the wheel seems to take more effort than it used to, or if the whole system seems strangely sluggish, then you know you have a problem with the steering rack.

The EGR (exhaust gas regulation) valve helps reduce emissions from your car. It effectively channels some of the exhaust gasses back into the combustion chambers of the engine, helping cooling.

Your car’s wing is an integral part of its bodywork. Small accidents or collisions could cause this part to buckle or bend, becoming completely useless. In the event that your wing is either too damaged to be fixed, or not really worth the money of employing a panel beater to fix, then changing this part yourself should be simple.

Every driver knows about the importance of wing mirrors. You use these vital visual aids all the time to check your position in the road and of the position of other drivers as you approach junctions. Whilst a broken mirror still offers a little better visibility than no mirror at all, it’s anything but ideal.

The exhaust downpipe is the piece of the exhaust that connects the catalytic converter to the final exhaust tip or flange. This is a very small piece of pipe that can often become damaged from rust, wear and fatigue.

What function does the exhaust back box perform in the engine? It takes the hot and fast moving gasses produced by the process of combustion and slows them down. This part is essential when it comes to running a smooth and quiet vehicle.

Your car’s brake pads will wear out relatively quickly. This is due to the friction that occurs when braking, with the brake callipers using the pads to stop the brake discs. The harder you brake and the more aggressively you drive, the faster the pads will wear out.

It is quite obvious when an electric window isn’t working. You simply won’t get any response out of the control unit. However, it might not be as obvious as to what’s gone wrong. If all the windows in your vehicle are suffering from a similar problem, then the chances are that the fuse is no longer working in the electrical system. Isolate the problem to one single window, and you’re more likely to be looking at a failure in the window regulator or motor unit, in which case the faulty part will need replacing.

The ABS is a computer controlled mechanism. Therefore the car is able to immediately tell if there is some kind of problem within this system, and will display the problem via the ABS error light on your dashboard. This should not affect the normal braking function of the car, which will allow the brakes to operate without the benefit of the ABS preventing locking in difficult conditions. The ABS sensor can be checked with a resistance meter to check the quality of the circuit within the part and this should show you whether or not to replace.