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, in a local charity shop, a 100-year-old link to motoring in other era.

DIESEL HIGH-PRESSURE PUMPS • Costly, complex and capable of producing lethal pressures – is this view of diesel pumps fair? Rob Marshall finds out.

222pc TOOL SET with TOOL CABINET • This toolkit features two additional large drawers for storing additional bulky items and the cabinet can be locked with the key provided for added security. Pull handle and wheels/swivel castors for easy movement around the workshop and a rubber mat on top tray to protect tools in use and workpieces.

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

Cambelt & water pump renewal • PART THREE: The 2.2 turbodiesel engine has a replacement cambelt inverval of every 112,000 miles or 84 months. Here Martyn Knowles shows you how it is renewed, along with the water pump.

New fluids • PART SIX: Should you let sleeping dogs lie and avoid touching sealed-for-life components? Rob Marshall finds out, as he addresses the XC90’s neglected automatic transmission and Active On Demand differential coupling.

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

Porsche 991.1 • Iconic shape, awesome performance and now under £40k. But does the seventh generation 911 make more sense than a new Golf GTI?

Fiat 999cc mild-hybrid STRIPDOWN • Rob Hawkins visits Turin Motors to volunteer to strip a three-cylinder petrol engine from a 2021 Fiat 500.

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VAUXHALL CASCADA • Martyn Knowles shows how to fit new front and rear brakes, plus front calipers.

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

Diagnostics Doctor • Steve Rothwell answering your ENGINE MANAGEMENT queries

Electronic Diagnostics Merc S500 V8 • Tracing and fixing faults in electronic engine management systems

Good Garage Guide

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More testing times – the AION V • All these new Chinese brands are becoming worrying, but this one’s a little different, in a good way, says Mike Humble.

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