By James Mills - May 24th, 2017 - 0 Comments - Car Care Made Simple

The air filter in your car keeps your cabin smelling fresh and dust and pollen free. If your car’s heating and ventilation unit is struggling to pump out a good flow of air, the air smells stale or musty or your allergies or hay fever is playing[...]

By Joanna Aichroth - May 2nd, 2017 - 0 Comments - Car Care Made Simple

For many drivers, car maintenance jobs such as filling up with screen wash are something other people do. According to various polls, anywhere between a third and a half of drivers struggle when it comes to even basic tasks to keep their car fit[...]

By Joanna Aichroth - April 28th, 2017 - 0 Comments - Car Care Made Simple

Considering how important personal safety is to most of us, it’s hardly a shock that all car makers claim their particular models are super safe. The likelihood is, car firms are telling the truth. But car safety still differs from model to mode[...]

By Joanna Aichroth - April 25th, 2017 - 0 Comments - Car Care Made Simple

Car air-conditioning needs regular servicing to perform at its best. But why do you need air-conditioning in the first place? If yours isn’t working, you can always perform one of these handy air-con hacks in an effort to stay cool in-car. Air-c[...]

By James Mills - April 14th, 2017 - 0 Comments - Money Saving Tips

Real world, or true MPG, in new cars is often much lower than what manufacturers claim. In 2011, the AA estimated that the average difference between claimed and true mpg was just eight per cent. Most drivers could probably forgive that. However[...]

By Joanna Aichroth - April 12th, 2017 - 0 Comments - Car Care Made Simple

Summer’s coming, the sky will be blue (hopefully), the sun should be shining (if we’re lucky) and the inside of your car will probably be heating up. Time to switch on the air-conditioning. But what if rather than an ice-cool breeze blowing thro[...]

By James Mills - April 5th, 2017 - 1 Comments - Car Care Made Simple

Engine tuning is the process of fine-tuning your car's engine to provide greater performance, smoother power delivery and better fuel consumption. Manufacturers limit the output of their engines to sell their models in as many territories as pos[...]

By Joanna Aichroth - March 22nd, 2017 - 0 Comments - Lifestyle

None of us leaves the house planning to suffer a car breakdown. But whether we’ve pushed things too far playing petrol station roulette and run out of fuel, or simply been unlucky, breakdowns do happen. The most important thing to remember is t[...]

By Joanna Aichroth - March 8th, 2017 - 0 Comments - Lifestyle

Recalls are when car makers ask owners of their cars to return them to dealerships to have checks or repairs carried out, frequently because of safety-related problems. They come about because cars are such hugely complicated pieces of machiner[...]

By James Mills - February 24th, 2017 - 0 Comments - Lifestyle

Most drivers are proud to share that they have a clean driving licence. But new figures from the DVLA reveal that 10,000 motorists have accumulated 12 points or more – and are still driving on UK roads. The figures were revealed by BBC South Ea[...]