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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Car Mechanics

The Peter Simpson COLUMN • With the arrival of colder weather, Peter’s thoughts turn, as one might expect, towards workshop heating.

FORD ECOBOOST WET-BELT FRIEND or FOE? • Traders are avoiding wet-belt engines but just how bad are they? Rob Marshall looks at how involved is wet-belt replacement on Ford’s EcoBoost 1.0-litre ‘Fox’.

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Tales from the workshop • Fixing advice from our garage proprietor Steve Rothwell

Replacement engine & subframe • Part TWO: Martyn Knowles helps fit a 2011 Peugeot 107 engine to our failed Aygo original. Plus attach a front subframe bought new from eBay.

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How to service your vehicle’s braking system FORD FIESTA • Rob Hawkins asks the students at Harrogate College to demonstrate how to replace the brake calipers, flexi-hoses, discs and pads on the front of a 2007 Ford Fiesta and service its rear brake drums.

Reading right • Frustrated by speedometer failure on an elderly Citroën C5 just before an MOT Test, Rob Marshall flexes his credit card to effect a fix but not in the way that you would imagine…

Nissan Juke • If you’re in the market for a tall, funny-looking hatch, the Sunderland-built first generation Juke is an oddball gamble that might just pay off.

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Dealer’s Diary • Peter Simpson provides us with an insight into the automotive sales trading world – and beyond.

Porsche Boxster 2.7 RADIATOR FAN RESISTOR REPLACEMENT • Peter Rosenthal replaces the fan resistor on a 2000 Porsche Boxster 2.7.

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LIVING WITH A MAZDA CX-5 DIESEL • CM reader, Malcolm Rainier, buys and sells a few motors during the year. Recently he has concentrated on buying (and repairing) the Mazda CX-5 range. Here Malcolm tells us his experience with the SUV, which has a bad reputation in the trade.

Help! • Your non-diagnostic vehicle-related problems solved by Steve Rothwell

Diagnostics Doctor • Steve Rothwell answering your ENGINE MANAGEMENT queries

Electronic Diagnostics BMW 3-SERIES 2.0 PETROL

Spotlight • Car Mechanics reviews equipment available to help us motorists.

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XMAS FUN • John Ward looks back at the motoring magazines of the 1960s, gives an insight into what was on offer either as...