День: 04.05.2018

Ground clearance Dacia Duster: how to increase correctly, the characteristics of the suspension

If to treat Dacia Duster not as a parket car, but as an off-roader, the ground clearance put to it can be not enough. On the other hand, Duster has never been and cannot be the car for serious lack of roads, not Toyota Land Cruiser. First, it has no frame body design, second, transmission and engines are obviously not designed for high loads, and third, suspension parameters though allow making some changes in ground clearance parameters, but it has its limit. How to increase the ground clearance on the Dacia Duster, what it is at all and what the consequences can be with an illiterate approach to the issue - all this we will consider right now.

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Як правильно змішувати та доливати антифризи

Рано чи пізно, незалежно від того, якого кольору буває антифриз, змішування і долив просто неминучий. У складі охолоджувальної рідини в будь-якому разі є вода і вона має властивість випаровуватися, хочемо ми цього чи ні. Різні кольори, різні бренди, різні марки та різні допуски часто збивають нас з пантелику. Щоб з'ясувати остаточно, чи можна змішувати антифризи, сумісність їх один з одним і що буде, якщо змішати різні охолоджувальні рідини, досить глянути на таблицю сумісності антифризів. Але проблема в тому, що вона не одна.

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VW Passat B3: replacement and correct choice of brake pads

Volkswagen Passat cars have been making owners happy for more than 30 years with their reliability and durability. But, like any car, it has to change consumable spare parts, such as VW brake pads, front or rear. This is a simple procedure that does not require special knowledge. But there is one peculiarity, taking into account which you need to choose the pads by article number.

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Skoda Octavia III: how to clean the fuel filter and replace the gas pump

The trend in modern automotive engineering and architecture of assemblies and units is to bind as many consumables as possible into one unit, solder, glue, make them indissoluble. This is understandable. It is more profitable for the manufacturer to sell parts in modules, not individually. It is more advantageous for us to replace one gasket, than to change the whole assembly. The same story with the gas pump on the Skoda Octavia III (A7).

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