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The Most Popular Car Colours to Buy in 2022

Car colours and prices: we inevitably think about them when buying cars. We print out charts containing car paint colours and look for the most popular car colours. It's not unreasonable because the colour is crucial to the vehicle's value in the future, its maintenance, and even to help you avoid accidents at night. If […]
How to Wash Your Car - Self Serve or at Home

Washing your car - a task that seems to be love or hate. Visions of happy people carefully circling over the curves of their sports cars with a soft microfibre on a nice day come to mind for some - while wet, soggy, dirty rags sloping into a heavy mop-bucket with dish soap come to […]
Car Cleaning Tips & Hacks

Think you know all there is to know about cleaning your car? Maybe spending hot summer days earning some extra money cleaning the family car gave you some experience, but did it make you an expert? The following car cleaning hacks and maintenance tips are to help you level up your car cleaning skills to […]
Which Car Repairs Should You Do Yourself (DIY)?

It's a fact that we cannot function efficiently in today's world without cars. But it's also true that they will inevitably break down and drop in performance. Even worse, some of these problems can come out of the blue and leave you stranded on the road. That's why you need to familiarize yourself with […]
Tire Tread Depth: Why It Matters and How to Measure It

It doesn't matter if you're driving a classic car, a super high-tech electric vehicle, or an 18-wheeler. Safety is the number one priority for all of them; the condition of the car tires and tire tread depth plays a crucial role in this regard. Surprisingly, tire condition is often overlooked, and many don't even […]
Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Car Warning Lights

I’m the prime example of exactly what not to do: I’ve been driving with my Check Engine light on for three years, my tire pressure sensor light is on because my winter tires don’t have the sensors, my abs light comes on intermittently and my low oil and low coolant lights come on every couple […]
How And Why to De-Ice Your Car Windshield

If you’ve been following us, you’ve hopefully come across our article, Everything You Need to Know: Wiper Blades. We thought it was important to spend some extra time discussing a very important element of wiper blade life longevity and car maintenance winter tips and tricks: how to de-ice your car windshield. Removing ice from your […]
Everything You Need to Know About Wiper Blades

Sometimes an invention is so basic, so purposeful, so necessary, that we barely give it any thought - until it fails us that is. You may have been there, in a snowstorm while salt and slush is being thrown on your windshield from the truck ahead of you and when you go to spray your wiper […]
Reasons To Get Tires Balanced and Wheels Aligned

Many of us start out our driving experience the old-fashioned way, in “beaters”. Perhaps cars our parents or siblings were ready to get rid of so they could get a new one or maybe the only one available on a used car lot in our price range. If this is true for you, it may […]
Paddle Shifters - All You Need to Know

Like it or not, cars are becoming less analog and more digital. The efficiency in safety, handling, fuel economy, power and luxury that are achievable with technology is astounding. One of the clearest signs of this change in gears (pun very much intended) for the modern driver’s preference is the rarity of manual transmissions and […]