Replace Your Brake Pad In Six (6) Easy Steps

Brake pad replacement is one of the most important aspects of motor vehicle maintenance and is a major contribution towards safe driving. Although many drivers choose to take their vehicle to a garage or service center for brake pad replacement, it is still possible to complete the job yourself, and this should be a relatively simple task for anybody with an intermediate level of mechanical knowledge.

what you'll need

1.     Socket set and ratchet
2.     Wheel brace
3.     Hexagonal, torx or star-shaped keys
4.     New pads
5.     2 blocks of wood
6.     Trolley jack or portable car jack
7.     2 axle stands
8.     A.C. clamp

Step 1: Wheel Removal

Park your vehicle on a flat, even surface and make sure that the parking brake is fully engaged. Place the wooden blocks behind the rear tires to keep the vehicle in position when it is jacked into the air. Loosen the wheel nuts but do not remove them completely.

Locate the jacking points on both sides of the vehicle and use a trolley jack or portable car jack to lift the front end of the vehicle off of the ground. Put the axle stands in place and lower your vehicle onto them. The wheel nuts can now be fully loosened and the wheels can be removed.

Getting Rid Of Car Odour

It is important for any car owner to know how to get rid of car smells when they infect your vehicle. Some smells are eradicated after simple car repair; many smells emerge from a car that needs repair. However, for those foul interior smells, you may need to get your car detailed by a professional. For people who cannot afford professional car detail, you may do the work yourself by following three easy steps.

Step 1: Remove any Garbage from the Car

A lot of odor comes from forgotten garbage in your car. Take a large trash bag and completely remove all of the trash from the inside of your car before moving on to step two.

How To Change Clutch Fluid!!!

what you'll need

•    Wrench for the bleeder screw (often 8mm, but check your owners manual)
•    2 Bottles of brake fluid (check your owners manual for recommendations, but generally        you'll want either DOT-3 or DOT-4 fluid)
•    Container for old fluid (an old milk jug or detergent bottle works fine)
•    A short (approximately a foot long) length of 1/4 " (internal dimensions) clear plastic              tubing to fit over the bleeder valve
•    A friend to pump the clutch pedal and monitor fluid level

If your clutch has been feeling a little “spongy,” like it doesn't want to full engage or disengage, a cheap and easy way to remedy the problem can be to change the hydraulic clutch fluid. Since the fluid used in clutch systems is just common brake fluid, it will slowly absorb moisture from the air, and eventually function less efficiently.

Luckily, It's a process that won't take more than an hour or so, and you don't need any expensive equipment—just a few tools and materials you'll find at any auto parts store, and a friend!

Step 1 – Locate Bleeder Valve and Attach tubing

Check your owner's manual to find the location of the bleeder valve on your clutch system. It's often located near the bottom of the clutch slave cylinder, on or near a hydraulic line leading to the cylinder. Once you've located the valve, fit the clear plastic tubing around the valve, and run it into the container you've brought.

New Cars Safety

Along with technological advances in vehicle performance, comfort, and amenities have come advances in safety technology. You can now purchase vehicles that have:

•     Seat belt systems with improved performance and comfort
•     Side air bags and redesigned front air bags
•     Interior head protection to reduce head injuries
•     Head restraints to help reduce neck injuries in rear impact crashes
•     Anti-lock brake systems to prevent a vehicle's wheels from locking during "panic" braking
•     Traction control to improve vehicle stability and steering control
•     All-wheel drive to distribute power between the front and rear wheels
•     Automatic-dimming rearview mirrors that reduce headlight glare
•     Daytime running lights that increase vehicle visibility to other drivers

Get the Most Value for Your Dollar

Driving a vehicle with enhanced safety features may not only save the life of someone you know and reduce injuries in the event of a crash, it may also save you money. In some states, certain safety features on a vehicle, such as air bags and anti-lock brakes, reduce the cost of insurance. Safety features may also boost your vehicle's resale value because consumers are increasingly recognizing the importance of vehicle safety. Whether you are concerned about safety or saving money, knowing about the latest in safety technology enables you to compare all new vehicle features so that you get the most value for your dollar.
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How To Fix A Flat Tire Without Removing It

what you'll need

•     Car jack
•     Aerosol spray tire filler
•     Pliers
•     Tire plugs
•     Nail file
•     Rasp tool
•     Tire cement
•     Insertion tool

9 Ways To Prevent Flat Tires Successfully

Flat tires are inevitable, and they always seems to happen at the most inconvenient time. But, there are things you can do to reduce the frequency of this occurrence. Even better than avoiding the inconvenience of a flat tire, you can avoid potential injury caused by losing control of your car when the tire goes flat. The following 9 tips will help you prevent a flat tire and prepare you for handling such an event. 

Keep Tires Inflated

Keep your tires inflated at the right pressure. Too much tire pressure can not only make your vehicle more difficult to handle, it can make for a rough ride. Too little pressure can make your tires wear faster—and more unevenly. If you’re not sure what the correct pressure for your tires is, check the vehicle manufacturer’s instructions.

Check Your Spare Tire

Check your spare tire occasionally to make sure it has the required air pressure and that it has no defects. If you find that your spare tire is defective and needs replacing, don't wait to replace it. When examining it, check it for small cracks in the sidewall which could be dry rot.

What You Need To Know About Tires

 The Importance of tires to cars!!!


 

It's partway through the race. The leader is slowly losing his advantage, as the other cars gain, when from out of nowhere, the 36th-place car-some six laps down-runs down that dominant car and passes him on the outside like he was standing still. How? Tires. That back marker has just come out of the pits with fresh rubber. The leader's tires are 60 laps old. New rubber can make a dramatic difference in a vehicle's performance, as evidenced on the race track, where the new tires can turn a zero into a hero.

The same holds true on the street, where the right tires can bring an older car back to life, tighten up a sloppy riding and handling SUV, quell apprehension on a wet, curvy back-road, and silently perform years of faithful service. The wrong tires, on the other hand, can make you think the shocks and bushings have failed, the alignment is out of spec, the steering is demon-possessed, a band of screaming bobcats have taken up residence in the wheel-wells, and the water on the road is a foot deep. There's much more to tires than the meets the eye.

Designing circles
Tires are the single most important component on a vehicle, one that seemingly requires an advanced engineering degree to fully understand. And yet, despite advanced computer simulations, designing and developing a tire remains as much art as science and involves as much compromise as an international peace accord. With a tire, improvement in one performance characteristic almost always comes at the expense of another. For example: Reducing rolling resistance (for better fuel mileage) or increasing tread life usually decreases grip, wet or dry. The opposite is true too: A race car wearing race tires can corner at 1.5g without aero aids, but gas mileage is of almost no concern and the rubber is worn out within 150 miles.

Sometimes, the interactions don't work the way tire designers' computers predict. This is due partially to the tire literally being cooked (or "cured") in the manufacturing process: Polymers, sulphur, carbon black, oils, waxes, resin, and structural components evolve and develop new properties. Some of this evolution continues over the tire's life, especially if the tire is overheated.