Category: Car Accessories

DIY Roof Rails (for any vehicle with side rails). Roof rails are necessary for any car-top accessory, like cargo baskets, ski racks, or bike racks. And they can be pricey: a pair of rails from the main manufacturers regularly costs somewhere around $100, and often require additional parts like vehicle-specific brackets just to attach them.…

It doesn’t take much to diagnose a loud muffler. You can easily hear this problem, and in some instances, you can even see it too. You may find it in the form of either a tailpipe left to drag behind your vehicle or a loose exhaust. The noise may already bother you enough, but it’s…

Car radio antennas are not the most durable parts of cars. They tend to break or suffer damage often and easily. This makes them prone to replacement or repair. Some drivers may forget to retract or remove their antennas before going through the carwash, and antennas are popular targets for vandals. In older car designs…

You depend on your windshield wipers to give you a clear forward vision especially when there are objects accumulated on the windshield glass that obscure your visibility. You can adjust your wiper speed and intermittent wiper cycles to attain the best vision possible in stormy weather. With just a turn or flip on the control…

A heat exchanger is manufactured to assist the transfer of heat from one fluid to the other. It has many designs. In some cases, it features a solid wall which separates the fluids and prevents them from mixing. While in others, the fluids are not separated from each other and are mixed. You can find…

As a part of a car’s braking system, brake pads take the brunt of the frictional force necessary to stop the car. In a disc brake system, as the driver tread on the brake pedal, a hydraulic line is activated to squeeze the calipers against the rotors of the car’s tires. Pads are located between…

Dangerous air pollutants including respiratory irritants, neurological agents, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), carbon monoxide and carcinogens can pose great threat to a person’s health. Increased exposure to these pollutants can trigger serious health problems. Some of them are cancer agents. Almost all of them can irritate the eyes, nose, and respiratory systems of people exposed…

Do you know that 40,000 people die each year in car accidents according to the figures? Car accidents top the causes of death for people under the age of 35. Safety belts are introduced to protect people in car accidents and they can prevent death in about half of these accidents. Most of time, we…

Before the age of electronic devices, the working principle of a car horn is easy. It is a very simple electromechanical device that uses the principle of electromagnetism to create noise. A typical car horn consists of a flexible metal diaphram (usually made of spring steel), a coil of wire that forms an electromagnet, a…

Graphene is made from carbon atoms arranged like a chicken wire. Such arrangement forms a very strong material. It is regarded as the super material of the future. Our car could benefit a lot if it was made from it or at least, some components of the car. So was for heat exchanger. Heat exchanger…