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If you drive a car regularly, the odds are high that you'll have to sit and wait in it with the engine running at some point. The practice is known as idling, and it's common to do it during ...
It's an all-too-common scenario during the winter: You walk outside to leave for work on a cold morning and your car won't start, or your door is frozen shut. When you finally do get it up and...
Purchasing a new car is exciting, but if you want to get your motor running and keep it going well over 100,000 miles, there are a few things you need to pay attention to. Check Out: The 20 Cars...
Car longevity is of interest to many car owners [1] and includes several things: maximum service life in either mileage or time (duration), relationship of components to this lifespan, identification of factors that might afford control in extending the lifespan. Barring an accidental end to the lifespan, a car would have a life constrained by ...
Tachometer (left) of a Volkswagen Golf Mk6 passenger car idling at just below 800 r/min.. Idle speed, sometimes simply called "idle", is the rotational speed an engine runs at when the engine is idling, that is when the engine is uncoupled from the drivetrain and the throttle pedal is not depressed.
Dieseling or engine run-on is a condition that can occur in spark-plug-ignited, gasoline-powered internal combustion engines, whereby the engine keeps running for a short period after being turned off, drawing fuel through the carburetor, into the engine and igniting it without a spark.
As the weather gets colder, you may dread stepping into a chilly car. But authorities warn that leaving your vehicle running while unattended can lead to theft — and in some places it is against ...
A motor vehicle service or tune-up is a series of maintenance procedures carried out at a set time interval or after the vehicle has traveled a certain distance. The service intervals are specified by the vehicle manufacturer in a service schedule and some modern cars display the due date for the next service electronically on the instrument panel.