Simple Tips For Keeping Your Car Running Smoothly
Malaysians spend a lot of time behind the wheels of their cars - shuttling the kids to and from school, driving to work and running errands. The last thing anyone wants to deal with is car trouble, in addition to the time and inconvenience that goes along with it.

Car Troubles: Diagnosis on Demand
Car troubles. Like taxes and the common cold, car troubles are sometimes simply unavoidable, as any car owner will tell you. New or old, even the most finely tuned machine could experience a hiccup or two. However some of the more mundane problems are easily spotted and fixed. If you know how. This issue, DRIVE list a series of common symptoms, diagnosis and cure that would be handy knowledge for any car owner:

Buying A Used Car
Buying a used car is often a smart financial decision. It is also a transaction full of potential disasters. Read on.

Car Health
Maintaining your car is important if you want it to run without problems and stay like new. Here are some maintenance tips. Before you hit the road, make sure your car is in good mechanical condition and you should know what to do if it fails.

Basic Maintenance
For some the wallet-pain of servicing bills is nothing compared to the hassle of levering out brake pads and hammering stuck oil filters free. But you don’t need to rely on the hands of a skilled mechanic for everything. Spend a few minutes on your car with some basic tools and you could save yourself some cash. You won’t even get the dirty.

Aggressive Driving
To qualify as an aggressive driving offense, the person’s driving must be an immediate hazard to another person or vehicle. Drivers know it when they see it. Cars racing down a crowded road, darting in and out of lanes, tailgating, and drivers yelling and gesturing at others, are all behaviors that are recognized as aggressive driving.

Don't Let Friend Drive Drunk
Traffic crashes are the leading causes of death and injury for Malaysians. With the festive season around the corner don't let your holiday scene turn into a crash scene.

Drug And Driving
You can’t judge drivers by their age – just look at teenagers. They receive more citations and cause far more accidents than people in any other age group. However, that does not make every teen a menace behind the wheel, and likewise, many seniors continue to be perfectly safe drivers well into their 80s.

Talking To Your Car's Best Friend
The benefits of sticking to a regular maintenance schedule for our cars have been drummed into us again and again. However, when things go wrong, as they inevitably do, being able to communicate effectively with your workshop will help solve the problem in a more efficient manner.

What exactly does alignment do for you?
When the wheels of your car are correctly aligned, they will roll smoothly, eliminate the dangers of dragging or slipping, and reduce steering effort. This affords you better steering control and stability, as well as greater driving safety. Properly aligned wheels also ensure that your tyres' wear evenly. So less strain is placed on the suspension of your car.   

Why engines burn oil
Valves are located above the combustion chamber in the cylinder head. The valve-train is lubricated by pumping oil at 50 – 80 psi of pressure into the top of the head. Seals are placed at the top of the valves to stop the flow of oil down into the engine when the valve is open. When the seals fail, more oil than is necessary will flow down into the combustion chamber and burned.

When the engine won't turn over - Step by step guide
If you are using automatic transmission, turn the key while holding the gearshift lever firmly in the park position. If nothing happens, try again with the lever in neutral position. If using a manual transmission, be sure to push the clutch pedal all the way to the floor. If the car starts up after any of these steps, a faulty safety neutral switch causes the problem. If the engine refuses to turn over, remove the keys from the ignition and follow these next steps.