Articles by: rajsanthana
This one is not for all you BMW enthusiast out there but for the BMW retards. I’m sure a lot of you have heard people referring to a Beamer with the E## term. And don’t lie, how many of you pretend to know what they are? Here it is boys and girls, the secret unveiled, just for you courtesy of yours truly; The One Stop Car Consultant…
Gorgeous indeed and I’m not talking about the tall blonde German I met last night anymore. I’m talking about the Volkswagen Passat CC that I took for a spin this afternoon! Look out C Class, there’s a new sheriff in town. I was recently inspired by someone to go check this car out; previously I had only tested the older Passat about two years ago. This 4 cylinder, 2.0I TSI turbocharged with direct injection system is a force to reckon with.
Did you know, the sidewall of your car tyre is a vault of useful and necessary information? At first sight it may seem like a confusing mixture of numbers, letters, codes and symbols that means absolutely nothing to most! And yet cracking the code reveals a whole load of useful, important and necessary information. Don’t worry, you don’t need to call Dr. Robert Langdon, that’s what The One Stop Car Consultant is here for. The tyre is arguably the most important safety component on a vehicle, only four patches of rubber, each no larger that the palm of a hand, are all that connects the vehicle with the road surface. There are now so many types of tyre available for different applications and it is necessary to provide correct size and related information – all these vital details are contained on the sidewall.
Say you’re going on a long drive out station, here’s something to make your drive smoother and a tad bit more safer. On normal city drives, your car tyres (Sedan) are filled to about min 28psi to a max of 35psi. But when you are about to drive long distances try to keep your tyre pressure at a minumum.
1. The Huge Rear Wing
By far the ugliest thing I’ve seen on the road is a GT wing on an under powered road car. The rear wing is a body part designed to give high speed cars more down force to prevent over steer. We’re talking about cars like those in the Open-wheel Formula, like F1 and GP2 race cars. So in my personal opinion; to see a GT wing on a Proton Iswara or Toyota Vios, is a nightmare!
When you have a flat, do you realize that it’s so difficult to turn loose the lock nuts? Here is what you do the next time you have to change a flat; tighten the nut first, it’ll loosen up like it’s melting butter. And don’t forget, when you’re done changing, tighten the nuts diagonally.
Drive safe now, you hear!
Formula One; the highest flight of motorsports and the pinnacle of car manufacturers pitting their whit and grit to outdo one another. So much research and development has gone into the technology that now governs the Formula One car that we the road car users go ‘wow’ when we watch it on television or read about it in a magazine. We fail to realize that a lot of technology that we have in our cars today was once used in Formula One. Let’s take a quick look at the road car technology that we drive with today…
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