Road test. Ready? Get into your car, and drive in a straight line (no this isn’t an alcohol test, but similar). Notice your car pulling left or right? Or your steering wheel veering off to one side or the other and you have to pull it back up to centre it? Or can you maybe […]
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It’s 1983, and Tom Cruise rolls up to a fuel station in a ’79 Porsche 928. An attendant hobbles over to help fill ‘er up. Attendant: Nice ride, Tom! What’s it gunna be? Tom: Petrol, pronto. Thanks Fast forward to 2020. Tom Cruise rolls up to a fuel station in a BMW M5. The same […]
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You’re out on a camping trip, when you accidentally leave your headlamps on. Come the morrow, you turn the key in the ignition to find it doesn’t make that reassuring start up sound. The ice trickles into your veins, your senses sharpen, your breath quickens. Your car’s battery is dead, and the ol’ flight or […]
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Here’s a true story. While I was studying at Kent University, my uncle and his brother volunteered to pick me up from Heathrow and drop me off at school. On the way my uncle’s brother, who was driving, missed the exit and, rather foolishly, attempted to swerve off the main road and into the little […]
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You see the kids around the corner open up a whoop-a** can of Plastidip to give their dope (NOT!) wheels a new colour? Is it a brand of spray-paint? Deodorant perhaps? Momma’s liquified turkey dinner? Nah, son. Plastidip is peelable paint in a can! Yeah baby – P.E.E.L.A.B.L.E. It’s a new alternative to foiling – […]
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I’m going to start-off by saying that I’ll never buy a spanking new car again – no, not even for that new car smell. I’m going to make a case for and against buying a new car, because there are two kinds of people – ones that want good cars for a bargain; and ones […]
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Remember a time, not so long ago, when everybody considered a matt black car, erm, cool? Mafia-like? Bad-ass? How did they get it done? Well, let’s give you the ins and outs of a little process called foiling your car. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Foil Class (@foilclass) on Oct 19, […]
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With temperatures in the UAE soaring into the 40s, proper maintenance of your air conditioning system becomes particularly important. Unless you’re the kind of person who’s got nobody to meet and likes to use your car as a sauna to sweat it out in (ME!). #carsauna anyone? Anyway, today we talk about what components make […]
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If you’ve been, even mildly, observant, you would come to notice that the tires on your car have numbers embossed into the sidewall. What do those tire numbers mean? What do those mean? Well, for one, you could try typing that out into the computer in the hatch and see if it stops Oceanic Flight […]
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Ever heard the saying “works like a well-oiled machine”? I hope this doesn’t come as a shocker to you, but oil has properties beyond making that fried chicken taste nice and lighting that lamp. Your car’s engine is made largely of metal – mostly aluminium or steel. And to get your car running, these metal […]
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