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| Understanding the Automobile |
Electrical and electronic automotive parts.
Speedometer A speedometer or a speed meter is a gauge that measures and displays the instantaneous speed of a land vehicle. Now universally fitted to motor vehicles, they started to be available as o ...
Spot lights Police cars, emergency vehicles, and those competing in road rallies are sometimes equipped with an auxiliary lamp, sometimes called an alley light, in a swivel-mounted housing attached t ...
Starter and Solenoid An enginestarter is designed to utilize a 12 volt, high amperage electrical system made to turn an engine over for starting purposes via aflywheel. Basically a starter is an elec ...
Starter motor The other major electrical component in your car's electrical system is used only a few times a day but is the single largest power user and most critical to your car's operation - its ...
Stop lamps (brake lights) Red steady-burning rear lights, brighter than the rear position lamps, are activated when the driver applies the vehicle's brakes. These are called "stop lamps" in some coun ...
Car Tachometer (Rev Counter) explained A tachometer (revolution-counter, Tach, rev-counter, RPM gauge) is an instrument measuring the rotation speed of a shaft or disk, as in a motor or other machine ...
Throttle position sensor (TPS) A throttle position sensor (TPS) is a sensor used to monitor the position of the throttle in an internal combustion engine. The sensor is usually located on the butterf ...
Transponder car key The majority of keys to cars built after 1995 contain transponder chips. The purpose of a transponder chip is to disarm a vehicle immobiliser when the car key is used to start the ...
Trip computer A trip computer is an onboard computer device fitted to cars which can generally record distance travelled, average speed, average fuel consumption, and display real time fuel consumpti ...
Direct tyre pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) Direct TPMS, or direct tire pressure monitoring systems (direct sensor TPMS) refers to the use of a pressure sensor directly mounted on the wheels or ti ...
