When you pay good money for horse-power, you want that power to go to the wheels as planned. Cars with manual transmission have a virtual Twilight Zone of variables, so to speak, that can rob you of ...

As laid out in the first installment of our "C5 on a Shoestring" series, our plan is to extract Z06-quality performance from our '97 coupe for substantially less than the typical asking price of a ...

I have a Volvo XC40 manual which is eight months old and has done 5,600 miles. I had a problem changing gear and a slight burning smell which went away and towards the end of my journey of 10 miles ...

In the first part of this project series we learned of my experiences with a slipping clutch--a problem I was having after only a couple of baseline quarter-mile test runs. The second write-up ...

A 1999 Nissan Maxima with only 60,000 miles may need a clutch and flywheel replacement, costing around $1,400, possibly more due to the vehicle's age. Using semi-synthetic oil in a new 2025 Ford ...

Q: I have a 2006 Nissan Frontier with a V-6 engine and 65,000 miles on its odometer. We use it as our second vehicle, mostly for driving around town. The clutch, a replacement installed by my dealer ...

We bought a 2003 Peugeot 307 SW in May 2004 via the Peugeot Direct scheme through the Peugeot dealership in Devizes. In June 2005 the car broke down due to a failure of the clutch and flywheel, which ...

Two years ago, I replaced the clutch slave cylinder and master cylinder in my 2015/16 Ford Ranger. Now the clutch pedal has just dropped to the floor roughly 25,000km after the cylinders being ...

Every now and then, a mechanic or engineer will start talking about dual-mass flywheels, but what are they? And why would car makers use them?

Cars with manual transmissions are unequivocally more fun than their automatically shifted counterparts. The only downside: Clutch discs are wear items, and that means you might have to get your hands ...