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My Tire Has a Nail in It. What Should I Do?

Sooner or later in your driving career you may approach your vehicle and notice the unfavorable flash of a nail head in the track of your tire. It's an uneasy inclination when you need to drive with a nail in your tire. What do you do about it? Do you have to have it fixed immediately? Is the tire leaking?

Because you have a nail in your tire doesn't mean you'll have a flat tire. Now and again, the nail can be short enough that it doesn't infiltrate through the tire's water/air proof coating. In different cases, its direction may have missed the covering out and out. Or then again if the nail punctured directly through the liner... Read more

Posted on November 2019,20   // Author: Admin  

What Causes the Engine-Failsafe-Mode?

Sometimes the engine-failsafe-mode is triggered by an actually damaged component, such as an oil pump, timing chain or belt, crankshaft or camshaft, or other internal engine components. It’s also common for damaged transmission components like inner gaskets, seals, the torque converter, mechanical gears, the input shaft, or even a damaged flywheel or driveshaft to cause the failsafe mode to activate.

It's also quite common for a sensor failure, or a damaged electrical connection to a sensor, to “accidentally” activate this warning system. Professional mechanics will fully inspect the vehicle to locate the exact... Read more

Posted on November 2019,15   // Author: Admin  

Wearing a Seatbelt Correctly

Safety belt

A safety belt (otherwise called a seat strap) is a vehicle wellbeing gadget intended to verify the driver or a traveler of a vehicle against harmful development that may result during an impact or an unexpected stop. A safety belt decreases the probability of death or genuine damage in a car accident by diminishing the power of optional impacts with inside strike dangers, by keeping tenants situated accurately for most extreme viability of the airbag (if prepared) and by forestalling inhabitants being shot out from the vehicle in an accident or if the vehicle turns over.

The Purpose of Seatbelts

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Posted on November 2019,14   // Author: Admin  

Side effects of a Bad or Failing Universal Joint (U-Joint)

The drive shaft (likewise called propeller shaft or prop shaft) is a segment of the drivetrain in a vehicle, to convey torque from the transmission to the differential, which at that point transmits this torque to the wheels so as to move the vehicle. The drive shaft is essentially used to move torque between segments that are isolated by a separation, since various segments must be in various areas in the vehicle. A front-motor back wheel drive vehicle must have a lengthy drive shaft associating the back hub to the transmission since these parts are on inverse sides of the vehicle.

Drive shafts are utilized diversely in various... Read more

Posted on November 2019,05   // Author: Admin  

Upkeep FOR HEADLAMPS AND Different LIGHTS

Your headlamps are a fundamental piece of your vehicle's security hardware. They ought to be on consistently and require little upkeep. Most headlamps have a halogen bulb inside a focal point. At the point when the bulb wears out, it ought to be supplanted by another bulb of a similar kind. A few bulbs are anything but difficult to change, however some require disassembling parts in the engine. For this situation, we prescribe you put a call to CAR PARTS NIGERIA so we send our confided in experts for legitimate fixing. It might likewise be the situation that an electric transfer has worn... Read more

Posted on November 2019,01   // Author: Admin  

OIL STAINS UNDER THE CAR WHEN PARKED

For what reason does my vehicle have an oil spill?

Engine breaks are probably going to happen due to:
Degraded engine gaskets (rocker spread gaskets, valve gaskets (otherwise known as head gaskets) are the most widely recognized reason for oil spills;

Oil pan leaks can happen when the underside of the oil container is physically damaged. This can make the seal become free and cause oil to spill.
The oil channel attachment can wind up exhausted because of age or relax from running over rocks, animals and branches.
Oil filler top might be absent or turned out to be free, broken, exhausted – all of whi... Read more

Posted on October 2019,29   // Author: Admin  

ROAD WORTHINESS AND TIRES.

Roadworthiness is the capacity of a vehicle, transport, truck or any sort of car to be in an appropriate working condition or fulfilling satisfactory guidelines for safe driving and transport of individuals, stuff or freight in streets or lanes, being in this way road lawful.

The most effective method to Check If Your Tires Are Roadworthy

In the event that you claim a vehicle or whatever other vehicle that you intend to use out and about, guaranteeing that it is roadworthy and fit for reason for existing is your obligation

You have to check your vehicle all the time to ensure that nothing has decayed or turned ou... Read more

Posted on October 2019,23   // Author: Admin  

Tips for Safe Driving Near Trucks

Driving around commercial trucks can be dangerous, so always take extra precautions. The risk of an accident increases with these vehicles because they have larger blind spots, cannot maneuver as easily, and take longer to stop than passenger vehicles. Use these to your advantage, and keep the following tips in mind to reduce the overall risks for an accident when driving beside a truck.

AVOID BLIND SPOTS
Big rigs and other large vehicles have much larger blind-spot areas than traditional passenger vehicles: This can make it much more difficult for a truck driver to see an approaching vehicle. When driving around a commerci... Read more

Posted on October 2019,22   // Author: Admin  

Lagos-Ibadan railroad nears finishing

As Lagos-Ibadan railroad nears finishing, CRRC yesterday dispatched the ten trains to start activity this year. Trains for Abuja light rail was additionally sent on the ship to Nigeria 2 days ago. 

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Posted on October 2019,18   // Author: Admin  

What Causes Leakage in the Shock Absorbers?

A shock absorber or strut consists of one or more pistons that flow through a thick oil as the wheel to which it’s attached moves up and down. The motion of the piston through the oil converts mechanical energy to heat, damping the motion and helping bring it to a stop; this helps to stop the wheel from bouncing after each bump.

Note that a shock absorber doesn’t actually absorb the shock of a bump; that’s the job of the springs and certain other components of the suspension. Rather, the shock absorber absorbs energy. A vehicle without shocks would keep bouncing up and down for a while after every bump; the sho... Read more

Posted on October 2019,17   // Author: Admin