Car Mechanics

Car Mechanics is the UK's only car magazine with essential advice on maintaining and repairing popular makes and models. It’s an invaluable motoring resource that appeals to both the DIY car enthusiast and the more experienced motor trade professional. Car Mechanics has helped save money for our readers every month since 1958. Each issue includes a wide range of in-depth features written in a clear, straightforward manner: • Readers’ motoring-related problems answered for FREE • Real-life motoring dilemmas from our man in the garage trade • Electronic diagnostics delves inside a different modern vehicle each month to explain its management system • Survival Guide looks at new and used component prices for a particular vehicle • Used Car Focus is an in-depth buying guide on a specific make and model • Service Bay covers a full service with close-up images and comprehensive descriptions • Project cars are a major part of the structure of the magazine as we buy, fix and sell different vehicles over a period of months So if you're into saving money and being a home technician, Car Mechanics will help you out - guaranteed!

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Car Mechanics

The Peter Simpson COLUMN • Peter discovers that three-year car battery renewals aren’t yet quite consigned to history…

THE E-AXLE • Like combustion engined cars, Battery Electric Vehicles possess transmissions that do not last indefinitely. Rob Marshall looks at whether, or not, cost-effective repairs are possible.

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Tales from the workshop • Fixing advice from our garage proprietor Steve Rothwell

Aggro Aygo • Part ONE: Martyn Knowles buys a 2012 Aygo from the car auctions, with an MOT failure sheet. With 80,473 miles covered, it must have some life left in it. After all, these 3-cylinder engines are bulletproof, aren’t they?

THE RISE OF THE HEADLIGHT • After receiving a letter from a CM reader mentioning that their Honda Jazz has fitted LED headlamps (and some of the other lamps are LED), they asked if these lamps were expensive to renew? In response Steve Rothwell investigates the development of the headlamp, the shift to LED – and the growing problem of oncoming drivers being dazzled.

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WONKY WHEELS • Pulling to one side, dodgy handling, steering feels funny, odd tyre wear – and hit a pothole recently? Then it all points to wheel alignment woes. But don’t think that a quick and simple tracking job will fix it, says Alan Anderson.

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Audi TT Mk3 • With prices dipping to £7k, the last of the line TT is a bargain nearly-new sports car contender.

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Dealer’s Diary • Peter Simpson provides us with an insight into the automotive sales trading world – and beyond.

Servicing Jaguar’s smallest saloon • Rob Hawkins visits Elite & Performance Jags to follow them servicing a six-year-old petrol engine Jaguar XE.

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Help! • Your non-diagnostic vehicle-related problems solved by Steve Rothwell

Diagnostics Doctor • Steve Rothwell answering your ENGINE MANAGEMENT queries

Electronic Diagnostics BMW 3-SERIES 2.0 PETROL • PART ONE: Rob Hawkins finds an E90 BMW with a 1995cc petrol engine and an interesting list of fault codes to fix.

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