Go to the buffet table one too many times and you're likely to be the slowest one on the team. The same holds true for your race car; carry too much weight in the wrong place, and chances are you'll ...

Your car’s wheels spin around a stationary axle, and in order for them to do so, something has to allow for “slip” between the two. That something is a wheel bearing. A vehicle’s wheel bolts to a hub, ...

When adding mods to cars, owners will often add wheel spacers. We explain what wheel spacers are and whether they are safe to ...

Why does my wheel hub bearing run dry? Is lubrication the only cause of hub bearing failure? Matthias. Hello Matthias, a wheel hub bearing is a set of ball or roller bearings housed in a rotary casing ...

The most important pieces of real estate on your car are those four small contact patches that grip the road: your tires. Those few square inches of rubber determine just about everything. Tires ...

Wheel bearings or commonly called ‘hub bearings’ are steel balls assembled and encased in an inner and outer circular waterproof and sealed ring packed with grease. They support the wheel hub and ...

Locking hubs are a really important part of four-wheel drive systems: They're there to help drivers switch between two-wheel drive and 4WD.While many modern 4x4s now use automatic systems, the ...

The lowly and often taken-for-granted wheel bearing hasn’t really changed much in design or function since the dawn of the automotive age save the move to incorporate them into wheel hub and bearing ...

Electric motors are round. Wheels are round. It's a pretty natural impulse to combine the two. No lesser automotive luminary than Dr. Ferdinand Porsche did it first, inventing the wheel-hub motor in ...

Renault’s upcoming 5 Turbo 3E electric rally for the road might be the most exciting EV you can buy, but it isn't cheap. Renault takes two 5 Turbo 3E prototypes to Corsica where they please the crowds ...