Archives October 2014

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Oct

MOT Failures – Emissions

According to recent Vehicle Operator and Standard Agency (VOSA) figures on average 9.7% of petrol cars fail to meet MOT emissions standards, compared to 3.9% of diesels. This is mainly because the MOT emissions test is far more stringent for petrol cars than diesels; petrol cars are checked for the levels of various gasses and …

30
Oct

All About Shock Absorbers

What are shock absorbers? Well they’re a range of sports bra for a start, but that’s a different blog altogether. More accurately, for our purposes, they are the tubular metal devices filled with hydraulic fluid and fitted to each of your car’s wheels to help absorb the impact of bumps and holes in the road …

14
Oct

Your Cold Weather Emergency Kit

Last winter was extremely mild but just a few years before the winters of 2009/10 and 2010/11 subjected us to widespread snow and ice for weeks on end, and temperatures regularly dropping well below -10C. That year saw “the coldest December in the last 100 years and the coldest across central England since 1890” according …