Car part gets very hot? That’s about right (6)
I believe the answer is:
brakes
'right' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'car part gets very hot? that's about' is the wordplay.
'car' becomes 'ka' (Ka is a model of car produced by Ford ).
'part' is an insertion indicator (the inserted letters split open or part the word).
'gets very hot?' becomes 'serb' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'that's about' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'ka' placed into 'serb' is 'sekarb'.
'sekarb' in reverse letter order is 'BRAKES'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for brakes that I've seen before include "They slow or hinder progress" , "Constraints on bakers" , "In a way, stops" , "Apply them to slow down" , "Devices for reducing speed or stopping" .)