It is very important to look after your car if you want to try and avoid having costly bills arising. Obviously, you cannot avoid everything happening but maintaining your car to a high standard will help to try and prevent this. All vehicles require services at different intervals depending on the make, model, age and mileage. You can find out when a vehicle is due to be serviced by looking in the handbook. Here you will find a service schedule which will tell you what service schedule is recommended by the manufactures and also what items should be changed / checked at each service. If you do not look after your vehicle adequately and get it serviced when it should be then you run the risk of things going wrong...

When something goes wrong with your car, it can be a worrying time as you often don’t know how much it is going to be to fix it. This is especially true for situations when you don’t know what is wrong and there may be an amount of investigation work first before the issue can be diagnosed. If you are considering doing some or all of the repair work yourself then you need to be sure that you know exactly what it is that needs fixing. Once you know this you can then start to cost up parts. If you have been given a quote by a garage for repairs then be sure to get a written breakdown of what exactly is covered within the quote. This will then allow...

Electric cars are the future and many manufacturers are doing all they can to ensure that they can move towards producing only electric vehicles in the future. Jaguar have said that they will be all electric by 2025 leading the way for other car manufacturers to follow suit. Lots of people are still not convinced about electric cars as they say that the world does not seem ready for them. Most electric cars have a battery that often doesn’t do more than about 250 miles on a full charge. To fully charge the battery can take around 10 hours meaning that long journeys may need to be split over two days or more. Scientists are working on a battery that is said to last slightly longer and that can be...

Owning a car can be expensive and many of us put certain things off such as services because they can be costly. Unlike an MOT, a service is not mandatory so if you are short of money it may be the thing that you decide not to do. The problem with this is that by not having your car services on time, you may find that problems start to develop. During a service oil and filters are changed, engine levels such as coolant, washer fluid and brake fluid are checked and topped up if needed. They also do checks of some of the major components of the vehicle abs advise you of any wear or damage. Some of these parts may be checked in an MOT whereas others may not....

Automatic cars have been around for some time now and they have many advantages. For some people, they are their only way of being able to drive as if they have a medical condition that means they cannot drive a manual vehicle, then being able to drive an automatic give them back some freedom. There are many pros and cons of an automatic vehicle. They can be great in crawling traffic where you do not need to keep switching gears. In the drive position they constantly pull forward so you only need to put your foot on and off the break to move at a slow pace. If you experience a breakdown then having an automatic vehicle can make everything a little more complicated. You will not be able to...