Articles for category: AUTOMOTIVE

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Tips on How to Fix Your Car’s Starter

Repairing the starter on your automobile is no easy task, but it can be done at home, especially if you have a classic car. The first thing you need to do is evaluate the situation. Start by turning the key and listening carefully. If you hear a quick buzz as if the motor is turning ...

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Portable Showers: Make Camping Civilized

Living in your van, down by the river sounds so romantic. Away from civilization, not a care in the world. After a few days, the wilderness will be the only place you’ll be accepted unless you come up with a way to keep a body clean. Your standard cargo van, and worse yet smaller vehicles ...

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The 5 Worst Nicknames in Boxing

Boxing is a sport that has been around for what seems to be forever. The first documented boxing match was held in the year 1681. Since then, it has become a sport watched and enjoyed by many. Sometimes even people you wouldn’t really think of enjoy watching the sport of boxing. Nicknames Of Boxers-The Good ...

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The Top Ten Most Fuel-Efficient SUVs for 2008

When it comes to purchasing a vehicle the one thing most people want to know before they even look at the price is how many miles per gallon of gas the vehicle will get. With the price of gasoline at record highs for the past several months people are spending more on gasoline than ever ...

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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: ...