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Product Inspector

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Steve Dawson — No Comments ↓

Pro Detailer Magazine – latest issue out now www.pro-detailer.com  info@pro-valets.co.uk   01285 238617 Price £4.95 The latest issue of Pro Detailer Magazine has just landed on our desk, and itís a corker. Itís jam packed with how-to guides, product reviews…

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Energy Recovery

Posted on February 8, 2019 by Steve Dawson — No Comments ↓

Regenerative braking is the technique of energy recovery which slows a vehicle, in our case a road car, by converting its kinetic energy into an energy form that can either be used immediately, or stored until needed. An electric generator…

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The Doc debate

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Steve Dawson — No Comments ↓

Much of the acrimony surrounding official fuel consumption figures over the years has related to them being derived from static laboratory testing, and not from any real life on-road testing, Now that the new RDE (Real Driving Emissions) testing is…

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Killing my engine, or not?

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Steve Dawson — No Comments ↓

Dear Doctor,  My son says that I am murdering my car’s engine (2.2 non-DPF) 148bhp Toyota Avensis D-4D 2010 6-speed) by driving using far too few revs. I change up as soon as possible and try to maintain as high…

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What do you mean by clean? (Sounds like my mother, looking behind my ears!)

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Steve Dawson — No Comments ↓

Hi there Doctor.  Please could you enlighten me as to how the new cars under the new Euro ratings listed are considered clean, based on their carbon dioxide ratings? Here are a few examples: BMW X7 ñ 171, Volvo V60…

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Looking ahead

Posted on February 5, 2019 by Steve Dawson — No Comments ↓

Hello Doctor. It would seem that there’s no escaping the fact that diesel power is in for something of a rough time over the next few years, and we must wonder in what form it may survive, both in private…

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Speed awareness

Posted on February 5, 2019 by Steve Dawson — No Comments ↓

Hi Doc,  Just to cover something different. There’s a main road into the village in which I live which was once the only road, but there is now a by-pass. The local police do some speed checks in the village,…

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A ferry short adventure

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Steve Dawson — No Comments ↓

For all the advances in automotive technology, the modern motor car remains all at sea when faced with a stretch of water. Examples of amphibious cars do exist ñ the German Amphicar is the first aquatic automobile that swims to…

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All aboard

Posted on January 31, 2019 by Steve Dawson — No Comments ↓

It’s one of the great British icons, but what is it like to own and live with a London bus? Classic vehicle enthusiasts are notorious for having drunken late-night eBay binges and ending up with something barmy like a Sherman tank…

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Bright Spark

Posted on January 30, 2019 by Steve Dawson — No Comments ↓

Regular readers of this column may remember that I have said in the past that the market for electric cars would probably have two separate take-off points ñ one, a surge in demand as large numbers of buyers start to…

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