DIY TIPS: Pamper your car at home

Are you spending more time at home than before? To maintain your sanity, why not take this chance to pamper your car by detailing it? There are many tasks that the home mechanic can do in an afternoon, with minimal knowledge required! Last updated: 15 February 2022, 10:00AM SGT In the first part of this series, here's a car detailing routine! It'll not only keep you occupied, but will leave your car ...

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CIRCUIT BREAKER TIPS: Maintaining your car at home

We know how tough it is for a petrolhead to be confined within four walls. To maintain your sanity, why not take this chance to work on your car, or try pampering it a bit? There are many tasks that the home mechanic can do in an afternoon, with minimal knowledge required! In the second part of this series, here's some basic maintenance tasks! They'll not only keep you occupied, but ...

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WARNING LIGHTS: A beginner’s guide to those cryptic dashboard icons

Warning lights in your car’s dashboard are your friend, not enemy, so no need to fear them. This is what the most common ones mean: Cars are incredibly complex machines with thousands of moving parts making up dozens of interconnected systems, all being run via advanced electronics backed up by an array of sensors. With so much computing power on board, few, if any abnormalities will escape your car’s attention, and ...

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DRIVING ETIQUETTE: Signal and hazard lights tips they don’t teach

We’ve all been taught to use our indicators if we want to turn, and our hazard lights if there's an emergency, but did you know there are other uses for them? The orange lights at the corners of every road vehicle are one of the most crucial features on a car, yet are commonly under-utilised. We really shouldn't need to say it, but please don’t forget to use your indicators when ...

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DRIVING ETIQUETTE: Tips your instructor never taught

The curriculum for driving lessons in Singapore is far from comprehensive, and there are many other good practices that will make you a better driver on the road. Here are a few: The ability to drive ourselves around is one of the greatest conveniences of modern society, but with it comes a great deal of responsibility too. There are a lot of things to take note of when you have to ...

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BUS LANE TIMINGS: The definitive guide

How much do you really remember of Singapore's bus lane operations? Here's a quick reminder! Ever been stuck in traffic and been tempted to zoom up that empty bus lane on your left, but just weren't quite sure if you were allowed to do so? We certainly have! Many times. But despite being a fairly major component of Singapore's road driving theory, the specific details of bus lanes sometimes eludes us, and ...

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