Have you ever had tour windshield wiper fluid frozen in the winter? Well, it can be annoying when that happens, but can also cause more damage then your car then you might think. Since liquid expanse when it freezes, it can cause damage to components under the hood of your car. Read on to learn […]
Your car's horn is a safety feature built into the car to help get others drivers attention if they start to get into your lane, or in other situations to warn people around you of your presence to prevent wrecks or injury. This is why it is important for you to have a functioning horn. […]
When driving your car should go straight and smoothly. This means that in theory on a straight road you should be able to let go of the wheel and your car will stay straight. This doesn’t always work in practice because the road is not smooth and has bumps that will cause the vehicle to […]
A dead or bad battery is a common reason why a car will not start. A car uses the power from the battery to engage the starter to get the car’s engine to turn over. This takes a lot of power, and a weak or bad battery is not capable of doing this. A lot […]
The mass airflow sensor is responsible for telling the engine or more accurately the Engine Control Unit how much air is going into the engine. Depending on the amount of air, their needs to be a different amount of fuel released into the cylinders for the engine to run right. A failing or bad mass […]
Over time and use batteries go dead and then they need to be charged. The longer a battery sits without being used, the more it will drain. This is especially true in extreme temperature areas. Even AGM batteries, which are top quality, will need to be charged at some point. When it comes time to […]
There are a variety of types of lead acid batteries on the market and each one works slightly differently. They all do the same thing, and that is provide power to something, and they all do it in roughly the same way with plates and electrolyte in between, but they hold the electrolyte in different […]
Multimeters can be used for all kinds of purposes. One of those is locating a ground fault in a circuit. After reading this article you will know what a ground fault is, why it is bad, and how to use a multimeter to find one. We will go thru the steps required to safely find […]
When your battery is dead in your car, mower, or other items that use an array you might want to charge it instead of buying a new one. This is because a lot of times when the power is low in a battery it can be restored, and the battery is not truly dead. This […]
Dead car batteries are an annoying thing. This is especially because a lot of times they happen out of the blue. Sometimes it is from something simple such as a light getting left on and you can jump the car and get on your way, but sometimes the battery is too dead to jump and […]