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A bad suspension is not good for any vehicles and could cause damage to the rest of the car. Driving with a bad suspension can be dangerous and that is what the 2016-2017 Chevy Silverado 1500 and the Chevy Tahoe has experienced. According to Your Mechanic, a bad suspension can cause broken struts, flat tires, broken or collapsed springs, broken steering linkage, broken anti-sway bars, failed power steering and can affect handling and braking. On the Chevy pickup trucks, the front upper control arms near the arm bushings were poorly welded together and could break apart. According to Trucks, 4,789 vehicles were involved in the recall. Other vehicles also include the 2016 Chevrolet Suburban, GMC Yukon XL, Chevrolet Tahoe, Cadillac Escalade ESV and the Cadillac Escalade.

If a human uses records to stay healthy, then surely a car should too. Especially if that car is something as magical as a five-speed 1991 Jeep Cherokee Laredo.

The tech Chevy revealed this week was all under the hood. The 2.7-liter turbo engine is a DOHC 16-valve direct-injection design developed specifically for the truck market that yields 310 horsepower and 348 pound-feet of torque. To reach those numbers, the new engine uses a dual-volute turbocharger for instant throttle response. While the dual volute unit is similar to a twin-scroll, there are significant design differences, including routing the airflow through the two scroll shapes into opposite sides of the turbine wheel to avoid interference.

Adaptive cruise control is an advanced system that automatically adjusts the speed of a car to maintain a safer distance from the preceding vehicles. The system can increase or decrease the car’s speed in order to maintain a safer distance.

Emissions control technology in the latest engines includes diesel particulate filters, exhaust gas recirculation, diesel oxidation catalysts and selective catalytic reduction. MAN Engines has opted for a modular exhaust after-treatment system, while developments in electronic engine management and high pressure fuel systems have also had an impact.

You’ll recall the B&B certainty that the Prius would be an unreliable nightmare that wouldn’t make it to 80k miles due to all that new fangled tech.

The range has been developed to provide its users with a smooth transition towards the phased adoption of EU Stage V, coming into force in 2019. The first five models in the range are new versions of the QAS 80, 100, 120, 150 and 200 generators.

In addition, the base warranty for marine engines from 19 to 60 L in a heavy-duty or medium continuous-duty rating has been extended 1000 hours beyond the previous term, while intermittent-duty coverage for the same engine range has extended 1500 additional hours. Cummins continues to offer optional Encompass coverage, which can provide an additional three years/10,000 hours of coverage to the engine.

Caterpillar Marine has launched its latest generation of azimuth thrusters. The new MTA v3 thruster is based on the design of the v2 and is built in accordance with Caterpillar’s CPS procedure for maximum quality verification, the company said.

And though I’d like to have seen more transfer case fluid and trans changes than what I see in the records, the gearbox fluid was checked a number of times during, as shown in this 1996 receipt:

The Husqvarna FC450 could have won this year’s shootout, but rather than making the FC450 feel more distinctly different from the KTM 450SXF it is based on, the Husky engineers made the two bikes more identical than ever. The seat is no longer square. The plastic subframe isn’t as resilient, and the airbox isn’t as bulky in the rear anymore. When you sit on the orange and white bikes, they feel identical—save for the bar bend. Most MXA test riders liked the feel of the Husky bar bend and optional maps better than those on the 450SXF units. The biggest difference is that the Husqvarna power feels mellower, which lots of test riders liked because it was ultra-smooth; however, Husky didn’t fix the Magura clutch problem from last year. The slave seal often fails—forcing us to replace it with a Brembo piston from the KTM parts book. The ice-cream-cone restrictor in the muffler is a crime against humanity. What is it doing in there? It costs the FC450 almost a full horsepower compared to the KTM at peak. As on the KTM 450SXF, we drill holes in the airbox to give it more power across the board, but we’ve been doing this to Husqvarnas for a few years now. 

When a car seat is not properly attached, it can move and shift during an accident causing the seat to slam into the dashboard or the rear which could cause injuries or worse.