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The Tech-Savvy Buyer’s Guide to Used Car Warranties: Ensuring Coverage for Modern Features

Increasingly, cars are being equipped more and more with technologies to make our lives, our journeys and our cars easier to live with. We’re buying used cars with these features already added, and then potentially adding more ourselves. One thing that cannot be overlooked, is ensuring you have the best used car warranty with new tech included....

Get battery support with a routine car service

AJ Automedics delivers battery support in conjunction with routine service, fault finding and repair, thanks to CTEK’s PRO25SEAJ Automedics is a successful automotive workshop established 2010, which, through a lot of commitment and hard work from the team of expert technicians has earned an excellent reputation for honest, reliable garage services in Durham...

Changes in the sports car segment produced by Audi – from Quattro to R8

Audi is one of the most famous car manufacturers in the world. Cars of this manufacturer, which have been produced for more than a hundred years, have repeatedly proven that German engineers are well-versed not only in luxury standards but also in the intricacies of car sportiness. This allowed Audi cars to become popular even before the...

The EV Guide: Home Charging Points

One of the biggest bugbears when it comes to owning and operating an electric vehicle is charging it. Obviously, there are public charge stations which are perfectly adequate if not particularly convenient. This is why it is often worth considering installing a charge point at your home; however, this is a process, and it can be time-consuming...

How to recover your Ford radio code

There's nothing worse than doing a car journey with nothing but white noise in the background, this is one of the biggest downsides of having a locked car radio unit that is asking for the unlock code.But, don’t despair, luckily, there’s more than one way to recover a lost radio code, in this...
Nissan Leaf 2022

Top 10 reasons for buying a small electric car

Electric cars are steadily gaining the favor of the British public. Naysayers point to the issues such as limited charging infrastructure and lengthy recharge times, but the fact of the matter is that they’re a great alternative to a petrol-powered car – especially if you buy a small one.Perhaps the biggest drawback of electric cars is that...
GPS vehicle tracking

GPS car trackers, All you need to know!

We all adore our cars. Most of us spend a decent portion of each day in cars, and we utilise them for a variety of purposes. A car is a modern-day necessity thus, we spend a lot of money on them not least because we choose to purchase the most attractive car with all of the features...
Start your own car repair business

How To Start A Car Maintenance Business

A car maintenance business is a fantastic way to earn some extra cash, especially if you’re a car enthusiast. Start your business as a side hustle alongside your full-time job until you have built up a decent client base and collection of equipment. Here are a few things to bear in mind before you launch your car...
Deer Whistles for cars

Deer Whistles For Cars

Collisions with wildlife is a recurring problem everywhere in the world, and the UK is not any different. In 2017 alone at least 1117 deer, 915 badgers, and 756 foxes suffered the consequences of a collision. In Europe, at least half a million animals die every year after collisions with vehicles. It is also worth noting that...
Perfect car paint work

How To Cure Car Paint

In this blog post, we are going to tell you how to cure paint properly which is an essential step when you touch up your vehicle paintwork. You might not realise that is also important if a garage or body shop has performed some work on your car. Although the paint might be dried when you collect...
Driverless Racing Cars

Autonomous Cars in Racing

It’s expected that there will be around 10 million driverless cars on the road by 2020 which is a both amazing and scary! There’s no doubt that having driverless cars (or autonomous cars as they’re also known) will have its benefits. Autonomous cars could help reduce emissions, traffic on the road and could also help increase safety....
Car Parking Technology

How is In-Car Tech Affecting our Parking Abilities?

According to a report commissioned by Peter Vardy, nearly half of Brits depend on technology to assist them with parking.Panic and parkingWhen it came to locations, busy city centres seem to be the most stress-inducing, closely followed by supermarket parking. Surprising, even parking outside their...

The benefits of BMW’s diesel technology

BMW has for a long time been at the forefront of diesel power research, design and technology, and even more so quite recently, having become a firm favourite among fleet car drivers – drivers who demand the very best diesel fuel efficiency of anyone. BMW’s 3 Series compact saloon is the market leader in terms of fleet car sales,...
Self driving cars

Would you Let a Robot Drive your Car? Our AI Future

The future of the transport industry is changing with AI, but who'll be there to take the wheel or the responsibility, should things go wrong?As little as ten years ago, most drivers would have never believed such things as Automatic Park Assist and Automated Headlights would come into existence. Some might think why do we need either when anyone...
Flying cars

Fly and drive

Fans of Minority Report (or even Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) will remember the crazy appeal of a flying car. But author Phillip K Dick was not the only one with a wild dream. Uber, Google Intel Transportation and Airbus, are already working hard to make that fantasy come true. Why flying cars? Why would anybody want a flying car? It’s not...
Great Driving Apps

Top Smartphone Driving Apps

Find out about the latest smartphone driving apps which will make your journey’s less stressful.Smartphones have changed the way we interact with the world, our family and friends and they help us to do everyday things faster and more efficiently than ever before. These pocket-sized computers also allow us to access a wide array of information and provide us...
car park technology

The Future of Smart Parking Technology

The future is awesome! If you’re a technology junkie like me, you also love looking ahead at what’s being developed.The parking industry is a major one in terms of technological advancements. Not long from now the way we think about parking will totally change. Our cars already come equipt with tools to help us park safer and in smaller...
real time gps tracking

Real-time GPS Tracking

Improving Safety of Field EmployeesGlobal Satellite Positioning System (GPS) was originally developed for military use, but have grown to be much more than that over the years. GPS trackers come in different size and shapes, for tracking assets, vehicle and individuals.The portable GPS devices come with a built-in battery and can be considered as a tech gadget that provides...

Will Cars Ever Fly?

In Back to the Future, we had flying cars by October 2015, Minority Report showed us a future where driverless cars zipped up, down, sideways and even forwards occasionally. We all wondered when this would actually happen, but the real question is, can it actually happen? Even more to the point, should it?We’ve made huge advances in tech since...
Smartphone as a dash cam

Turn an old smartphone into a dashboard camera

How to turn an old smartphone into a dashboard camera In-car dashboard cameras are becoming more and more popular in the UK, with everyone from Uber drivers to young and inexperienced drivers beginning to see the benefits of recording their journeys.If you are starting to think about whether you might need a dash cam, then we have a simple trick...

Autonomous Vehicles: The moral decision

Recently there has been a lot of talk of self-driving cars and the influence that these innovative new pieces of technology will have on society. Although Google’s goal was to create a driverless car that would solve all motoring problems, there are a few moral issues that may end up causing more problems than needed. This, of course, is...

Cool Car Technologies that will Change your World

Cars are no more just a transportation tool. Automakers around the world are introducing a plethora of gadgets which collectively are elevating some cara into a moving symbol of high class technology and advanced features. The coolest car technologies are not all necessarily “cool”. While some truly may accelerate performance, some are just an overload of electronic glitz and some...

Upgrade to the Ultimate Auto Workshop

Sometimes, it can seem that technology is moving at a rate that is hard to keep up with. No sooner have we invested in the latest new gadget than another one is released, not to mention the seemingly endless array of competitor devices.This isn’t just true of mobile phones, tablets, and wearables, but also of the automotive industry. New...
Car SOS Is Back

New Series of Car S.O.S.

Yes it's back. The new series of Car S.O.S. starts tonight (Thursday 9th of April 2015) on the National Geographic channel.For those of who have not seen the programme its hosted by Fifth Gear's Tim Shaw and the mad mechanic Fuzz Townshend. It's classed as a make-over show but that does not do it justice. The hosts take away...