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Maximize Your MAF Performance!

The Mass Air Flow sensor (MAF) is one of the key components of an electronic fuel injection system in your vehicle. It is installed...

10. BATTERY BASICS: The bigger the Cold Cranking Amps (CCA ) the better the battery?

MYTH: This is a myth, since a large CCA battery only supplies what is required. FACTS: The electrical systems on most cars are designed...

9. BATTERY BASICS: Use tap water to top off the water level in a battery if the plates are exposed?

MYTH: No this is a myth FACTS: To replace lost water, use distilled, deionised or demineralised water. SUGGESTIONS: Avoid Tap water as it...

8. BATTERY BASICS: After leaving a car’s lights on, going for a drive will recharge the battery?!

MYTH: As already mentioned in Battery Basics # 2, this is a definite “No”. You will not fully re-charge the battery by going for a...

7. BATTERY BASICS: Trickle charger is the best way to charge my car battery?

MYTH: No, not very effective! FACTS: One should charge the battery at 10% to 13% of the battery’s 20 AH capacity. Most vehicles are rated...

6. Battery Basics: Flooded, AGM, and Gel batteries are the same!?

MYTH: Even though all AGM, GEL and flooded batteries are classified as lead acid, the internal construction of the battery divides them...

5. BATTERY BASICS: A larger capacity battery will damage my car?!

MYTH: A starter motor will only draw a fixed amount of current from the battery, based on the resistance of the load. FACTS: A larger...

4. BATTERY BASICS: “Maintenance Free” batteries never require maintenance?!

MYTH: What happens to water on roads, in cups, etc. during summer? Evaporation! The same thing happens in batteries. FACTS: In hot...

3. BATTERY BASICS: A battery can explode?

TRUTH: A wet, lead acid battery produces hydrogen and oxygen gasses. FACTS: Fortunately, vent caps in batteries help prevent explosions...

2. BATTERY BASICS: Driving a car will fully recharge a battery?

MYTH: The days of '... going for a drive for an hour to charge the battery,' are gone. FACTS: Late model and especially ISS (idle stop...

1. BATTERY BASICS: Storing a battery on a concrete floor will discharge them?

MYTH: In the past, when battery cases were made out of wood, the rate of discharge was accelerated. FACT: Today, battery cases are made...