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Where this site stands
Last updated: 16 August 2026.
Some pages on Car Gadget HQ may contain affiliate links. If you click one and buy something, we may earn a small commission from the retailer. The price you pay is exactly the same whether you use our link or go to the retailer directly.
Not every link here is an affiliate link. Many point to sources, manufacturers or documentation, and we earn nothing from those. Where a guide names a brand or model, it is there to explain a feature or a trade-off, not because anyone paid for the mention.
A commission never buys a recommendation. Where a cheaper option, or buying nothing at all, is the right answer, that is what you will read here.
The rule that will not change
Whether or not this website ever earns commissions, one principle stays fixed: a product is recommended, or not, based on whether it genuinely serves the reader. Recommendations are never included to fill space or to chase a commission, and a product is never presented as personally tested when it was not. This is set out in full in the Editorial Policy.
If you ever feel a guide reads like it is selling rather than helping, please say so through the Contact page. That feedback is treated as important.
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