Auto Tips & Advice

Common Problems:
• Wear hurts manual transmission mainly in the synchronizers. The maim purpose of synchronizers is making shift easier and gear clash preventing. Usually they are made of brass and over time they get worm which leads to grinding and hard shifting.
• Slipping and uncertain shifting can also be caused by worn-out automatic transmission.

Read full “Your Car’s Drive Train”

If you want to save your money on the car maintenance you should be able to change the automatic transmission fuel yourself. As you know the transmission is cooled by the ATF and when the transmission is well cooled it can last 100,000 miles or even more.

Before to change the ATF on your own make sure that you have properly disposed of the old transmission fuel. You must be very careful to avoid getting the transmission fuel drops on your skin or into your eyes. Read full “Tips to Change Your ATF”

A vehicle with automatic transmission is one that changes gears automatically as the vehicle moves meaning that the driver doesn’t have to do it. Automatic is the most popular type of transmission in the USA. To operate the automatic transmission, a car will need Automatic Transmission Fluid (ATF). It is a slippery liquid that acts as a lubricant for all of the moving parts inside your transmission. this fluid also serves as a coolant and a viscous fluid that transmits power from the engine to the transmission.

Read full “How to Change Transmission Fluid”

Drivers who switch to a manual transmission after years of driving an automatic one, often have problems adjusting to this well-forgotten (or never really learned?) manual way of operating their car. Many of such drivers experience numerous cases of stalling during the break-in stage, which causes their concern.

Read full “Stalling the Engine and Slipping the Clutch - Dangerous or Not?”

«Why do such serious automakers as Mercedes, Jaguar, Porsche, BMW still produce cars not with front drive but with rear drive? », my neighbor asked me. And really why? Let’s see. Read full “What is better: front or rear drive?”

Struts’ condition effects on everything which is connected with cars. Uneven road coat makes wheels vibrate. And if the struts are bad in quality, it easily gets into a wide response and the wheel jumps aside highly from the surface. One more source of wheels’ and suspension’s vibration is wrong wheel’s balance. Read full “How to check struts by your own”