Auto parts and systems

• Car engine
  • Basic terminology
    • Bore
    • Compression ratio
    • Crank
    • Cylinder
    • Dead centre
    • Diesel engine
    • Dry sump
    • Engine balance
    • Engine configuration
    • Engine displacement
    • Engine knocking
    • Firing order
    • Hydrolock
    • Petrol engine
    • Power band
    • Redline
    • Spark-ignition engine
    • Stroke
    • Stroke ratio
    • Wet sump
  • Main components
    • Connecting rod
    • Crankcase
    • Crankpin
    • Crankshaft
    • Crossflow cylinder head
    • Crossplane
    • Cylinder bank
    • Cylinder block
    • Cylinder head
    • Flywheel
    • Head gasket
    • Hypereutectic piston
    • Main bearing
    • Piston
    • Piston ring
    • Reverse-flow cylinder head
    • Starter ring gear
    • Sump
  • Valvetrain
    • Cam
    • Cam follower
    • Camshaft
    • Desmodromic valve
    • Hydraulic tappet
    • Multi-valve
    • Overhead camshaft
    • Overhead valve
    • Pneumatic valve springs
    • Poppet valve
    • Pushrod
    • Rocker arm
    • Sleeve valve
    • Tappet
    • Timing belt
    • Timing mark
    • Valve float
    • Variable valve timing
  • Aspiration
    • Air filter
    • Blowoff valve
    • Boost controller
    • Butterfly valve
    • Centrifugal type supercharger
    • Cold air intake
    • Dump valve
    • Electronic throttle control
    • Forced induction
    • Inlet manifold
    • Intake
    • Intercooler
    • Manifold vacuum
    • Naturally aspirated engine
    • Ram-air intake
    • Scroll-type supercharger
    • Short ram air intake
    • Supercharger
    • Throttle
    • Throttle body
    • Turbocharger
    • Twin-turbo
    • Variable geometry turbocharger
    • Variable length intake manifold
    • Warm air intake
  • Fuel system
    • Carburetor
    • Common rail
    • Direct injection
    • Fuel filter
    • Fuel injection
    • Fuel pump
    • Fuel tank
    • Gasoline direct injection
    • Indirect injection
    • Injection pump
    • Lean burn
    • Unit Injector
  • Electrics, ignition and
    engine management
    • Air-fuel ratio meter
    • Alternator
    • Automatic Performance Control
    • Car battery
    • Contact breaker
    • Crank sensor
    • Distributor
    • Dynamo
    • Drive by wire
    • Electrical ballast
    • Electronic control unit
    • Engine control unit
    • Glow plug
    • High tension leads
    • Ignition coil
    • Lead–acid battery
    • Ignition magneto
    • Mass flow sensor
    • Oxygen sensor
    • Spark plug
    • Starter motor
  • Exhaust system
    • Automobile emissions control
    • Catalytic converter
    • Diesel particulate filter
    • Exhaust manifold
    • Glasspack
    • Muffler
  • Engine cooling
    • Air cooling
    • Antifreeze
    • Core plug
    • Electric fan
    • Ethylene glycol
    • Fan belt
    • Radiator
    • Thermostat
    • Water cooling
    • Viscous fan
  • Other components
    • Balance shaft
    • Block heater
    • Combustion chamber
    • Cylinder head porting
    • Gasket
    • Motor oil
    • Oil filter
    • Oil pump
    • Oil sludge
    • PCV valve
    • Seal
    • Synthetic oil
    • Underdrive pulleys
• Powertrain
  • Hybrid powertrains
    • Hybrid vehicle drivetrain
  • Transmission
    • Automatic transmission
    • Clutch
    • Continuously variable transmission
    • Differential
    • Direct-Shift Gearbox
    • Drive shaft
    • Dual clutch transmission
    • Easytronic
    • Electrohydraulic manual transmission
    • Electrorheological clutch
    • Epicyclic gearing
    • Fluid coupling
    • Gear stick
    • Hydramatic
    • Limited slip differential
    • Locking differential
    • Manual transmission
    • Manumatic
    • multitronic
    • Parking pawl
    • Roto Hydramatic
    • Saxomat
    • Semi-automatic transmission
    • Super Turbine 300
    • Torque converter
    • Transaxle
    • Transmission control unit
    • Turbo-Hydramatic
    • Universal joint
• Suspension
  • Anti-roll bar (sway bar)
  • Axle
  • Axle track
  • Beam axle
  • Camber angle
  • Car handling
  • Coil spring
  • De Dion tube
  • Double wishbone
  • Hydragas
  • Hydrolastic
  • Hydropneumatic
  • Independent suspension
  • Leaf spring
  • Live axle
  • MacPherson strut
  • Multi-link suspension
  • Panhard rod
  • Shock absorber
  • Swing axle
  • Toe angle
  • Torsion bar
  • Trailing arm
  • Unsprung mass
  • Watt's linkage • Wheel alignment
  • Wheelbase
• Steering
  • Ackermann steering geometry
  • Caster angle
  • Kingpin
  • Oversteer
  • Power steering
  • Rack and pinion
  • Torque steering
  • Understeer
• Brakes
  • Automatic Braking
  • Anti-lock Braking System
  • Brake bleeding
  • Brake fade
  • Brake fluid
  • Brake lining
  • Disc brake
  • Drum brake
  • Electronic Brakeforce Distribution
  • Electronic Stability Control
  • Engine braking
  • Hydraulic brake
  • Hydraulic fluid
  • Inboard brake
  • Parking brake
  • Regenerative brake
  • Vacuum servo
• Roadwheels and tires (tyres)
  • Outline of tires
  • Alloy wheel
  • Custom wheel
  • Drive wheel
  • Hubcap
  • Rostyle wheel
  • Spinner
  • Wire wheels
• Automobile safety technology
  • Airbag
  • Anti-lock braking system
  • Crumple zone
  • Collision avoidance system
  • Emergency brake assist
  • Electronic stability control
  • Traction control system
  • Seat belt