Your Cincinnati Service pros at The Superior Automotive Group are maintenance experts and understand that there are a lot of engineered components in your car that are designed to counteract physics. The rear differential in your car is one of them. In the simplest terms possible, the rear differential was designed to allow your rear wheels to rotate at different speeds. Why is this necessary? Well, when the vehicle makes a turn, the wheel that is traveling around the outside of the turning curve rolls farther and faster than the wheel on the inside.
Even though the video below was created in the 30′s, it explains perfectly how your rear differential works and why its development was important.
Now your rear differential does need maintenance, but not too often, so it’s easy to forget about it. If you haven’t had yours looked at, then it might be time to bring it into your Cincinnati Service Center at any Superior Automotive location.
