You just bought a brand new car. Beaming and with tinge of pride on your face, you drive it to your office's parking lot. Without warning, while you are looking for a vacant spot, your car suddenly conks out. Your source of pride suddenly be...

Automotive alignment lifts, including car lifts, truck lifts, or motorcycle lifts, are a vital piece of equipment in any car garage. In fact, one can get one for a home garage or commercial repair shop to raise almost anything with wheels, i...

Driving a car can be fun, but its maintenance can be a pain. No one really enjoys the task of auto maintenance. As long as the auto works fine, we are happy and don't always remember to get the maintenance of our motor done. Even if your veh...

READ COMPLETELY BEFORE BEGINNING: Opening your vehicles hood is a relatively simple task that can be done in a few minutes with no tools required. It is a good idea to know how to open your car's hood. Once the hood is open it can help gain...

There is no mysterious reason your service engine soon illuminates on the instrument cluster of your car. If you see a check engine or a service engine soon light in your instrument cluster; your car has stored a diagnostic trouble code. Whi...

Semi-integral methods of construction In some forms of integral or mono assemblies, the entire front end or subframe forward of the bulkhead is joined to the cowl assembly with bolts. With this construction, the bolts can be easily removed a...

Auto Integral (mono or unity) construction Integral body construction employs the same principles of design that have been used for yearsin the aircraft industry. The main aim is tostrengthen without unnecessary weight, and theconstruction...

Composite construction (conventional separate chassis) The chassis and body are built as two separate units . The body is then assembled on to the chassis with mounting brackets, which have rubber-bushed bolts to hold the body to the rigid c...

The steel body can be divided into two main types: those which are mounted on a separate chassis frame, and those in which the underframe or floor forms an integral part of the body. The construction of todays mass-produced motor car has cha...

Ahmed model For benchmark testing of CFD systems the simplified vehicle shape, known as the Ahmed model, is used, see Figure 1.31. This is a simplified model of a hatchback car. The Ahmed model can be made from a wooden block and used in any...

Grid system The vehicle body shape is broken into grid squares, or cells, see Figure 1.29. Depending on the shape of the panel, the grid cells may be of different shapes between square and oblong. The squares are then considered as imaginary...

The following are some of the calculations whichan aerodynamist may be concerned with; itshould be remembered that these calculations areoften carried out on about 10 000 000 (ten mil-lion) individual grid squares, or cells, on the carbody,...

Any material which flows, such as air or water, can be referred to as a fluid; dynamics simply means moving and computational is about calculations. Aerodynamics was for many years about observing the air flow over a vehicle, with sample cal...

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