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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The Peter Simpson COLUMN

GETTING TO GRIPS WITH GREASE • Grease remains an essential motorcar lubricant. Yet, even professionals misunderstand it, leading Rob Marshall to redress the balance.

CM Insider • Ben Hackney-Williams brings you another month of news and reviews from the automotive industry

Bright bulb melts lamp

Old favourite modified tool

VAUXHALL ASTRA • Fixing advice from our garage proprietor Steve Rothwell

Anti-social driver

Old style clutch job

Belting advice

Flat tyre trouble

Brakes juddering

Steady on

Coolant pump worry

Hidden battery

ABS fault with non-working cruise control

Damper trouble • PART THREE: Our Mondeo needs a new nearside front strut, so Rob Hawkins visits AES near York to see what the job entails.

Seat rebuild • PART SIX: Our Panda 100HP project comes to an end with seat repairs, an engine service and replacing the rear exhaust box. Andrew Everett sums up.

A successful outcome • Peter Simpson provides us with an insight into the automotive sales trading world – and beyond.

Agency sales

The wrong call

Buying, Owning & Improving • More evolution than revolution, the Mk6 might just be the refined bargain hatch you’ve been looking for.

Eighties nostalgia?

CAR SHAMPOOS • The car care addict that is Steve Hole has been at it again and this time gathered a large bunch of car shampoos to put through their paces. A mixture of large, small and boutique brands, some you’ve heard of, others you haven’t.

A genuine of f-roader • Rob Hawkins visits independent Jeep specialist Hargreaves Garage to discover what’s involved in servicing the JK generation of the popular Wrangler.

Help!

Diagnostics Doctor

Electronic Diagnostics • Rob Hawkins visits independent Land Rover specialist Four Plus 4 to find the common electricalrelated engine problems associated with the 3.0 TDV6 engine in the Discovery 4.

Our Cars

Our Cars

THE GOOD OLD DAYS • Or were they? Alan Anderson removes his rose-tinted specs and compares the cost of motoring over the decades. The results may surprise you!

NEXT MONTH

Modern Motoring– it can be illuminating! • Mike Humble bemoans the seeming declining standards of modern driving.