ABS is a good safety feature but some vehicle owners find reasons to disable them or remove them. This has some disadvantages like increased braking distance, reduced tire life and vehicle skidding.
Normal wear can cause a starter to fail. Aside that, there are other root causes like bad solenoid, bad electric motor, bad pinion gear, bad connection and so on.
Toyota and Lexus cars are known to be so reliable. There are technical reasons why the brands are reliable. This includes maintanability, less frequent repairs and small mean time to restore.
Preventive and corrective maintenance on a used car that is just purchased is important since buyer might not have all details of maintenance history and sometimes, people sell their cars due to faults without full disclosure.
The dipsticks of engine oil and transmission oil look similar, they also have upper and lower marks but the meaning of those marks and how they are read differ.
Purchase of a hybrid car requires due diligence during inspection. Aside the usual systems to inspect in cars, hybrids have some other places to be checked in order to acquire a non-problematic car.
Coolant can gain access to transmission through the transmission oil cooler. The oil cooler can leak internally causing the coolant and oil chambers to be linked.
Coolant getting into the engine lubrication system can cause damage to the engine. It is mostly caused by a faulty head gasket, bad radiator that has oil cooler integrated in it or a bad engine oil cooler.
The serpentine belt drives accessories like water pump, alternator, AC compressor and power steering pump. When the belt cuts, these accessories stop functioning and the vehicle has a very limited time to run.
The main battery fuse of a car is a relatively high amperage fuse that protects the overall battery circuit. When it gets blown, it causes problems like no crank and other accessories not working.
