If you are a brand new driver, it's important to remember that just putting gas in your car is never enough! In addition to gas, there are plenty of other fluids that need checking on a regular basis. If you love your car and want to have a long and happy relationship together, just use a little common sense: preventive maintenance is essential to your car's health.
Motor oil
Motor oil is like the blood that runs through your car's engine, helping everything to work just right. It lubricates the engine, it cleans it, and it also protects it: all important jobs. But short-term city driving can be especially hard on oil because the engine never heats up enough to boil away the moisture that inevitably builds up in the crank case when the car is resting. As a result of this and other normal wear and tear, sludge and acids that can damage your car's engine may become a real problem. To prevent any mishaps or outright disaster, follow your mechanic's advice and have your oil (and sometimes your filter) changed every 3,000 miles or every 6 months, whichever comes first. Don't assume that because you don't drive long distances that you can neglect changing the oil as often as you're supposed to.
Transmission fluid
Changing transmission fluid is not as clearly associated with changing motor oil when it comes to preventive maintenance, but perhaps it should be. Having the transmission fluid of a new car changed every 30,000 miles will greatly prolong the life of your transmission. However, if you bought the car used and its fluid has never been changed, it is probably best to leave it well enough alone. Adding fluid when it is low is perfectly acceptable under any circumstances, as long as you are sure to use the kind that is recommended by your owner's manual.
Brake fluid
Have this vital fluid checked from time to time and you'll rest assured that your brakes won't fail and will perform to the best of their abilities at all times. After just two years, there may be enough water accumulation in the brake fluid to possibly cause internal rust and corrosion.
Take care of your tires
Although tires do not need to be changed often, they do need to be rotated periodically to ensure even wear and tear on all four tires. Make sure that you do check your tires' pressure often to make them last longer and to give you better gas mileage and overall performance.
Find a good auto repair specialist and let him take good preventive care of your car, so that it can take good care of you: it's just common sense.
Sabtu, 01 Agustus 2009
Kamis, 30 Juli 2009
2009 Honda S2000: Requiem for a Real Sports Car by Mac Demere
The headstone for the Honda S2000 should say, "This was a real sports car." Production of the Honda S2000 will end with the 2009 model year: If you can't get a new one, buy used. You won't find a better real sports car from any year.
As with a motorcycle, a real sports car makes the driver feel as if he is the car: Superman, cape flapping in the breeze. Like a motorcycle, a real sports car needs a skilled pilot for top performance. A real sports car is light: The S2000's curb weight is almost 900 pounds less than that of a Sprint Cup racer. A real sports car has a manual transmission. A convertible top, while not crucial, earns extra points. A real sports car doesn't necessarily have the most horsepower: A well-driven real sports car can be quicker up a mountain road than a pretender driven by one who believes bigger and more makes up for ineptness. The S2000 exceeds all the expectations of a real sports car. And one more: A real sports car allows you to imagine you're driving a real racecar.
Long ago, I tested Comptech Racing's Reynard 95I-Honda Indy car. Driving the 2009 S2000 put me back in that carbon-fiber tub. The S2000's digital dash is a near copy of that racer's. The driver's compartment of an S2000 is tight. You needn't be as trim or short as an Indy car driver, though the larger than average backside will find the S2000 cramped. Like an Indy car, an S2000 requires skilled foot coordination to get it in motion from rest. Stalls are inevitable.
Like an Indy car, the S2000's 237-horsepower 2.2-liter four-cylinder engine doesn't make a lot of torque at low engine speeds and doesn't reach its peak of 162 pound-feet until 6,800 rpm. Once either the Indy car or the S2000 smells the sweet spot of the torque band, their engines begin revving like crazy. At maximum acceleration, there's little point in putting your right hand back on the steering wheel between shifts of the S2000's six-speed transmission.
On dry public roads, it's difficult to get the S2000's sticky Bridgestone Potenza RE050s anywhere close to their limit. But a light rain prompted me to relive my Indy car experience. Like a knucklehead, I switched off the S2000's stability control and launched from a stop at an assertive 4,000 rpm. There was only a hint of wheelspin as the digital lines of the tachometer raced across the top of the dash. As the tach line turned red I pulled back on the precise, short-throw shifter without lifting fully off the gas. The rear tires lit up exactly like those on the Reynard-Honda when I was rough on the throttle. Fortunately, the S2000's Torsen limited-slip differential helped prevent the rear from stepping out.
I repeated this on the two-three upshift and was rewarded with a bit more wheelspin. The S2000 then told me the same thing as the CART car: "Be more gentle or you're going to embarrass yourself." Having matured slightly over 14 years, I figured I didn't need to run the S2000 to the redline in third. In the rain. On a public road. Instead, I entered the upcoming off-camber left-hander a hair faster than was prudent. Okay, fast enough to earn chrome wrist jewelry from the police, and was rewarded by a slight and easily catchable tail slide. When the rear settled down, it required every bit of my scarce willpower to keep from going back to wide-open throttle. Old habits die hard.
The first edition of the S2000 appeared in 1999 as a 2000 model. Its 2.0-liter engine suffered from an overly high torque peak. To get maximum drag-race-style acceleration required a drag-car style launch. The driver held the gas and clutch pedals to the floor and, with the engine bouncing against its 9,000-rpm rev limiter, sidestepped the clutch. That early S2000 would then spin its tires about a rotation and a half until the engine bogged below the torque peak. Then it came to life. It wasn't easy on the equipment, but to quote the philosopher Tina Turner, we never ever do nothing nice and easy...we always do it nice and rough. With the new 2.2-liter engine, a best-time launch is accomplished at a more reasonable 4,500 rpm or so.
The S2000 is a spectacular—and real—sports car that would have been a cult legend had it appeared in 1969 or 1979 or even 1989. Unfortunately for it, the S2000 debuted when we were infatuated with three-ton station wagon (also known as SUVs). Still, this is a real sports car.
As with a motorcycle, a real sports car makes the driver feel as if he is the car: Superman, cape flapping in the breeze. Like a motorcycle, a real sports car needs a skilled pilot for top performance. A real sports car is light: The S2000's curb weight is almost 900 pounds less than that of a Sprint Cup racer. A real sports car has a manual transmission. A convertible top, while not crucial, earns extra points. A real sports car doesn't necessarily have the most horsepower: A well-driven real sports car can be quicker up a mountain road than a pretender driven by one who believes bigger and more makes up for ineptness. The S2000 exceeds all the expectations of a real sports car. And one more: A real sports car allows you to imagine you're driving a real racecar.
Long ago, I tested Comptech Racing's Reynard 95I-Honda Indy car. Driving the 2009 S2000 put me back in that carbon-fiber tub. The S2000's digital dash is a near copy of that racer's. The driver's compartment of an S2000 is tight. You needn't be as trim or short as an Indy car driver, though the larger than average backside will find the S2000 cramped. Like an Indy car, an S2000 requires skilled foot coordination to get it in motion from rest. Stalls are inevitable.
Like an Indy car, the S2000's 237-horsepower 2.2-liter four-cylinder engine doesn't make a lot of torque at low engine speeds and doesn't reach its peak of 162 pound-feet until 6,800 rpm. Once either the Indy car or the S2000 smells the sweet spot of the torque band, their engines begin revving like crazy. At maximum acceleration, there's little point in putting your right hand back on the steering wheel between shifts of the S2000's six-speed transmission.
On dry public roads, it's difficult to get the S2000's sticky Bridgestone Potenza RE050s anywhere close to their limit. But a light rain prompted me to relive my Indy car experience. Like a knucklehead, I switched off the S2000's stability control and launched from a stop at an assertive 4,000 rpm. There was only a hint of wheelspin as the digital lines of the tachometer raced across the top of the dash. As the tach line turned red I pulled back on the precise, short-throw shifter without lifting fully off the gas. The rear tires lit up exactly like those on the Reynard-Honda when I was rough on the throttle. Fortunately, the S2000's Torsen limited-slip differential helped prevent the rear from stepping out.
I repeated this on the two-three upshift and was rewarded with a bit more wheelspin. The S2000 then told me the same thing as the CART car: "Be more gentle or you're going to embarrass yourself." Having matured slightly over 14 years, I figured I didn't need to run the S2000 to the redline in third. In the rain. On a public road. Instead, I entered the upcoming off-camber left-hander a hair faster than was prudent. Okay, fast enough to earn chrome wrist jewelry from the police, and was rewarded by a slight and easily catchable tail slide. When the rear settled down, it required every bit of my scarce willpower to keep from going back to wide-open throttle. Old habits die hard.
The first edition of the S2000 appeared in 1999 as a 2000 model. Its 2.0-liter engine suffered from an overly high torque peak. To get maximum drag-race-style acceleration required a drag-car style launch. The driver held the gas and clutch pedals to the floor and, with the engine bouncing against its 9,000-rpm rev limiter, sidestepped the clutch. That early S2000 would then spin its tires about a rotation and a half until the engine bogged below the torque peak. Then it came to life. It wasn't easy on the equipment, but to quote the philosopher Tina Turner, we never ever do nothing nice and easy...we always do it nice and rough. With the new 2.2-liter engine, a best-time launch is accomplished at a more reasonable 4,500 rpm or so.
The S2000 is a spectacular—and real—sports car that would have been a cult legend had it appeared in 1969 or 1979 or even 1989. Unfortunately for it, the S2000 debuted when we were infatuated with three-ton station wagon (also known as SUVs). Still, this is a real sports car.
Selasa, 28 Juli 2009
Car Transportation May Be the Solution You Need by Casey Adams
Car transportation is probably something that you haven't given much thought. Even if you have seen the need for it you may have thought it was too expensive and used your time and money to either purchase or retrieve a car from a distant location. Car transportation may be an alternative option for you under many circumstances and it is not as expensive as you think it might be.
When you hire a company to transport your car, you can usually choose from an open transport or for antique or priceless automobiles, closed car transportation is available from some car transport companies. Open transport is normally done with the carriers like they bring new automobiles to dealerships on.
Closed transport will protect your vehicle from the elements though it will normally cost quite a bit more than an open car carrier.
Car transportation can be scheduled for coast to coast vehicle transport or locally if needed. You can expect it to take a week to fourteen days for car transport. Most carriers will pick your vehicle up at your door and deliver it to the destination of your choice. In some cases, you may need to take your car to a city or town if you are transporting your car from a rural area and also possibly for delivery. This can also cut down on the cost of car transportation.
When your vehicle is picked up for transport, the carrier will note any damage and report on the condition of the automobile on the Bill of Lading. The carrier and yourself or your representative will also sign the Bill of Lading and receive a copy of it. When the car is delivered at its destination, the condition of the vehicle will be noted on the Bill of Lading again and will need to be signed by yourself and the carrier. This is very important as any damage not reported may not be covered by the carrier's insurance policy.
If you win a car on EBay, or if you are trying to win a car on an auction website, you may need car transportation services. If you check out your options before you need the in a rush you will likely save some money on car transportation. You can still end up with a great deal on a classic car when you are aware of the car transportation services that are available to you.
The company that you hire for your car transport should be licensed and insured. This way you know that you are dealing with a reputable car transportation company and that your vehicle is secure. The car transportation company that you choose can make the difference between a good experience and one that will take awhile to forget.
If you are thinking about purchasing a car or need a vehicle retrieved from far away, car transportation is the service that you need. Experienced auto carriers can take care of this problem for you whether the vehicle is an SUV, truck, or mini van. If you need a car moved and are not sure what to do, there is a solution to this problem and it may cost less than you think.
When you hire a company to transport your car, you can usually choose from an open transport or for antique or priceless automobiles, closed car transportation is available from some car transport companies. Open transport is normally done with the carriers like they bring new automobiles to dealerships on.
Closed transport will protect your vehicle from the elements though it will normally cost quite a bit more than an open car carrier.
Car transportation can be scheduled for coast to coast vehicle transport or locally if needed. You can expect it to take a week to fourteen days for car transport. Most carriers will pick your vehicle up at your door and deliver it to the destination of your choice. In some cases, you may need to take your car to a city or town if you are transporting your car from a rural area and also possibly for delivery. This can also cut down on the cost of car transportation.
When your vehicle is picked up for transport, the carrier will note any damage and report on the condition of the automobile on the Bill of Lading. The carrier and yourself or your representative will also sign the Bill of Lading and receive a copy of it. When the car is delivered at its destination, the condition of the vehicle will be noted on the Bill of Lading again and will need to be signed by yourself and the carrier. This is very important as any damage not reported may not be covered by the carrier's insurance policy.
If you win a car on EBay, or if you are trying to win a car on an auction website, you may need car transportation services. If you check out your options before you need the in a rush you will likely save some money on car transportation. You can still end up with a great deal on a classic car when you are aware of the car transportation services that are available to you.
The company that you hire for your car transport should be licensed and insured. This way you know that you are dealing with a reputable car transportation company and that your vehicle is secure. The car transportation company that you choose can make the difference between a good experience and one that will take awhile to forget.
If you are thinking about purchasing a car or need a vehicle retrieved from far away, car transportation is the service that you need. Experienced auto carriers can take care of this problem for you whether the vehicle is an SUV, truck, or mini van. If you need a car moved and are not sure what to do, there is a solution to this problem and it may cost less than you think.
Rabu, 15 Juli 2009
i-MiEV In Sell Commercial April 2010
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation unveil the production version of i-MiEV * 1 * 2 new-generation electric vehicle in the World Environment Day in Tokyo, back weekends. This car is described as a "pioneer that will open doors for the public to a century of automotive future.
Companies, government agencies, local authorities and the Japanese will get the opportunity to have the first i-MiEV end of July 2009. 1,400 units of i-MiEV will be distributed during the fiscal year 2009. Cars are distributed to companies and government on the basis of rent following treatment. The commercial sale to the retail market in April 2010 and began receiving orders to come in July.
i-MiEV represent crystallization period of 40 years of development of electric cars in Mitsubishi Motors. I-MiEV production were presented as a very friendly car lingkungan.solusi against a number of challenges faced by the automotive industry at this time, such as environmental pollution, global warming, and the utmost threat to the oil-based energy supply.
Mitsubishi will continue a broad cooperation with the private sector and the public in Japan and overseas. In the development of infrastructure to promote the electric car ownership.
Specifications i-MiEV
Rudder system: 2WD (rear-wheel drive)
Dimensions: 3395mm x 1475mm x 1600mm
Wheel base: 2550 mm
Weight (kg): 1100
Number of Passengers: 4
Energy Consumption: 125Wh/km (10-15 mode driving pattern)
Cruising range: 160km (10-15 mode driving pattern)
Batere Type: Lithium-ion
Average Voltage: 330V
Capacity average: 16 kWh
Type of Motor: permanent magnet Sync
Model: Y4F1
Maximum power: 47kW (64PS) / 3000 - 6000 rpm
Torsi maximum: 180 Nm (18.4 kgf-m) / 0 - 2000 rpm
New Camry Rear Passenger Care
New Toyota Camry which was launched officially this week's target consumer is always established using the driver.
This is be toyota President Director of PT Astra Motor (TAM) Johnny Darmawan in his speech at the Bali Room Hotel Indonesia Kempinski, Jakarta, Wednesday (15/7/2009).
Pemanjaan passengers against this concept is translated in the 'Lounge on the Wheel' in the cabin passengers.
Lounge on the wheel are presented in the form of pemanjaan back through the rear passenger seat Relaxation system (such as chair massage), reclining rear seat, audio jack and the rear seat controller, roof illumination, so that really combine the interaction with the entertainment system, kesenyapan, comfort, lounge and luxury vessel on the wheel.
With this concept a new Camry is expected to be more pampered and given comfort during travel.
Selasa, 14 Juli 2009
Minus The New Camry GPS
Unlike the case with the Altis 2.0 features that have been equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS) on the New Camry, the facility does not exist.
There are three variants are offered for this Toyota New Camry, 2.0 G, 2.0 V and 3.5 Q. However, not all are equipped with GPS.
But PT Toyota Astra Motor (TAM) as the holder of the Toyota brand in India have reasons.
"Beda with Altis is used alone, users Camry disopiri more," said President Director Johnny Darmawan TAM on the sidelines of the launch of New Camry Room Bali Hotel Indonesia Kempinski, Jakarta, Wednesday (15/7/2009).
In addition, said Johnny, a street in the capital and some areas in Indonesia is still confusing to apply in the GPS map. "Concerned strayed even later," he kekeh.
In fact the Toyota Altis notabene class under the Camry has been using the facility. Pity indeed.
Senin, 13 Juli 2009
Nissan 350Z Have Special Characteristics
Nissan sports car output have unique characteristics that. Seeing the look sporty, body aerodynamis, and powerful energy that makes cars Nissan sport car demand in the market. However, modifications such as the world does not recognize their own limitations. This happens if the Nissan 350Z lansiran in 2007 and upgraded to dirombak beyond their own limitations.
In the interior, sport and racing aura of thick felt. There are 2 front seat racing blue output Bride following seat belt color senada from GReddy. To seat or back seat of their own products Bride lox max. For the still visible dashboardnya standard panel with some additional colors such as blue and white data link GReddy sized 60mm and shift knob.
Nissan 350Z Display output in 2007 seen eye CATCHING. Elections body with white OEM Pikes Peak cohesive graphic striping from blue GReddy D1 original graphics really add aura street car racing this one. The bodykit, the car using widebody kit from GReddy Gracer bumper model with the SPL by the designer that designed large car with a tire can fit and able to stand firm. Widebody rear wing and is a limited edition and only sold as many as 7 in the event the SEMA show. At the foot of the foot, the car uses a set of rays velg Engineering Gram Light size 20 inch wide 9.5 inch front and 10.5 rear tires dibalut the Nitto Invo rubber output.
Nissan 350Z engine with standard VQ35HR engine that is already very good. But the capacity of this machine is considered GReddy not yet powerful enough so that dilakukanlah research nonstop to produce the latest evolution of the VQ engine. This machine is planned to be a new breakthrough and is able to complement the kitchen spur Nissan GTR VR38 engine in 2009 with the next evolutionnya. By GReddy engine upgraded intercooler added this type spec-29-R HG, aluminum intercooler piping, dual Airinx AY-MB intakes, and the Turbo Ti-C 70mm dual exhaust.
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