About Pcheen
Pcheen is an independent publication of practical guides to cars, written item by item from makers’ manuals and other cited sources.
Pcheen is an independent publication about cars. It is written for car owners anywhere who want to keep their car in good shape with their own hands, and who like to know why a step is done, not only that it should be.
What we cover
Our subject is the whole of everyday car care: keeping a car clean inside and out, the checks an owner can make, tyres, fluids and batteries, care through the seasons, what the dashboard shows, how the main systems work and how to drive economically. We add guides one question at a time, and each one answers a question many owners ask.
How we work
Our guides are written by The Pcheen Desk, the website’s editorial team. We go through a car the way a careful record is kept: item by item, in the same order each time, saying what we look at, what it tells us and what varies from one model to another.
- Sources first. We work from car makers’ owner’s manuals and the care guides of makers of tyres, wipers and paint finishes. Each guide lists the pages it relies on, with the date we read them.
- Typical ranges. When an interval or a quantity depends on the car, the climate or the product, we give it as a typical range and say so. The figure that applies to your car is in your owner’s manual or on the product’s label.
- Everyday care only. Work that belongs to a qualified mechanic or a body shop is named as such and not explained.
- Products by type. We describe products by what they are and what they do, never by brand, and we rank nothing.
- No hands-on testing claims. We do not test products and do not say that we have.
The full method, including how we use AI tools in drafting and how we correct errors, is in our editorial policy.
Who publishes it
Pcheen publishes this website independently. It is not a car maker, a garage, a shop or a club, and it speaks for nobody but itself. Advertising pays for the website; it is labelled and has no say in what we write, as the advertising disclosure explains.
Writing to us
Corrections, questions about a guide and anything else go to contact@pcheen.com. The contact page says what helps us answer quickly.