Is your bike handling strangely? Tires wearing out asymmetrically? Chain making funny sounds? Believe it or not, a serious misalignment of the front and rear wheels can be the cause of all these ...
Installing an aftermarket coilover kit - like we've done this month with Project RX-8 - is a job that any enthusiast can do in his home garage with basic hand tools, a floor jack, a couple jack stands ...
Even though a wheel alignment isn’t a normal maintenance item, and there isn’t a set mileage or time interval for having it done, you should recognize the indications for when it might be needed for ...
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An Australian company is reinventing the wheel and plans to sell the technology to the world’s leading car companies. Victorian-based Doftek has developed what it calls an active wheel alignment ...
When it comes to auto maintenance, there's a lot that goes into keeping your car in solid condition for the long haul. With regular and frequent service items — like engine oil replacements, tire ...
Drivers often treat alignments like the flossing of auto maintenance. We all know we're supposed to be doing it, but most people wait until something hurts to take a professional's advice seriously.
Probably the first area most people change on their car is the wheels and tires. Without a doubt, the most important consideration for a wheel is how much offset it has, and how much the stock wheel ...
Among performance enthusiasts, it's taken for granted that in order to optimize performance with an aftermarket camshaft, it should be "de-greed in," or installed in the engine according to an ...
This happened to me on my first day on the job at the service counter more than four decades ago, and it hasn’t stopped since: a customer walks in (and no, their gender doesn’t matter) asking for a ...