Articles for category: AUTOMOTIVE

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5 Easy and Important Car Maintenance Tips

There are several easy things you can be doing to help extend the life of your vehicle, and prevent costly repairs. Here are five simple things that you can do, (without needing any expensive specialty tools) to maintain your car or truck… Check oil ~ Oil is the lifeblood of your car. You need to ...

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How to Know when Your Car’s Water Pump is Failing

Of all of the semi-serious problems that can go wrong with little or no notice, having the water pump fail on your car rates near the top. Most of the time, you first learn of your water pump problem when your car overheats as you cruise down the highway or sit a traffic light on ...

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How to Install a Block Heater in Your Car

As the mercury dips to near zero in many regions, we quickly realize that these freezing temperatures have a profound impact on our most common mode of transportation, our car. Cars perform best in warm weather. The fluids used to lubricate the car flow freely, the battery provides more starting power, and the heating system ...

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How to Stop Car Engine Vibrations

One of the worst feelings you can have is when you’re driving your vehicle to work or school and all of a sudden, you begin to feel a strange vibration. Since there are literally hundreds of things that can go wrong within your vehicle, it is important to inspect any type of vibration or strange ...

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The Top 10 Volkswagons of All Time

Volkswagen has been one of the best deals in cars since they first rolled off the assembly line in 1939. Since that early date Volkswagen has had many models roll through its factory doors. Here are the best ten ever to be welded together and sold under the title of Volkswagen Number ten on the ...

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Some Good Heavy Metal Websites

There is a whole world of information on metal out there in the land of the Internet. All things being un-equal, I’ve written up a short list of some of the best metal websites, whether for ease of use, historic relevance, or the “just plain neat” factor. Here we go: Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives: ...

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Why Is Car Insurance Cheaper for Women?

I still remember obtaining my driver’s license at sixteen years of age and being furious that my sister’s car insurance was less expensive than mine. Car insurance is cheaper for women across the board, which didn’t seem fair, since I was a well-behaved kid with no history of poor judgment. The reason for this is ...

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Fuel Efficient Vehicles for 2010

Consumers have always looked for the cost looking cars and have been fascinated by the notion of going from 0 to 60 mph was something to die for; However the consumer has recently swayed away from that mind set into a more economical one. In the upcoming years as the situation with oil continues to ...

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How to Perform Road Test Maneuvers

When a driver is performing a test to obtain a driver’s license, he will be asked to demonstrate proficiency in an assortment of maneuvers key to everyday driving. Failure to perform these maneuvers to the standards of the driving tester and state will result in an inability to obtain a driver’s license. Therefore, it is ...