All states charge a car registration fee and with most it’s attached to the annual inspection process. It is required to show proof of ownership and that you paid taxes to drive ion the state’s raods. In most states you must get your car inspected on a yearly basis and only after it is...
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Generally speaking, GAP insurance covers the difference between what you owe on your vehicle and what it’s worth if it were to become totaled in a car accident. Now hopefully nobody has a car accident, but unfortunately there’s a car accident, according to the Department of Transportation and highway safety, every 3 seconds in...
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Do you have a junk car sitting in your driveway or elsewhere in your property that you would like to be rid of but can’t because you don’t have a title? Do you think that you can’t sell your car because it’s missing the title? Is this junk car causing an eye sore that...
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Been thinking about getting a new car or truck? Thinking of trading in your vehicle on a new one? If you’re going to have a trade-in then you absolutely need to read the rest this article so that you know how to maximize the value of your trade-in! Too many people today don’t take...
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Have you ever been to a car dealership and seeing a little blue and white sticker next to the MSRP sticker? This is what is called an addendum sticker and you will notice that the price on the MSRP becomes higher on this blue sticker. With an addendum sticker the car dealer can alter...
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If you’re like me you want to save money, gain performance from your vehicle and get better gas mileage whenever possible. So when I heard that K&N made these air filters that were reusable and basically lasted forever, I became very interested in them. Then when I read up on them I found that...
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Let me tell you something – I am a mechanic and have worked in a Ford Lincoln Mercury store for years. One complaint customers have been coming in to our service department with a lot lately is CD players in their late model 1996 to current Ford Mustangs don’t work or stop working. This...
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I’m not new to car sales and car dealerships and the sometimes shady tactics they employ to extract as much profit as they can from each customer. It’s kind of like they take each and every customer and try and drain as much money from them as possible. Car dealers and their employees don’t...
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All cars that are made nowadays come with sealed plastic headlights. The problem with these headlights is that the seals tend to go bad over time and the headlights themselves can crack allowing moisture to enter the headlight unit. This moisture looks really ugly inside headlight lines and it also reduces the lifespan of...
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When you drive your car or truck at night to you find yourself having a hard time seeing things? This could be an indication that you have cloudy and yellowed or oxidized headlight lenses. Take a look at the front of your car at the headlight lenses during the daytime. Are they yellow and...
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Well, I am a service technician and work at a Honda car dealership on Long Island New York. One problem we see an awful lot of here when the weather gets colder is Honda S2000′s that have a hard time starting in cold weather. There can be several reasons for this, but the most...
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Last year ended up having to replace all four tires on my vehicle due to a busted belt on the left rear tire. I have a Ford F-150 and the tires were halfway worn any way so I just decided replace all four of them at the same time. I decided to shop it...
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Don’t you hate it when you get rate apply your driveway and put your car in drive and the check engine light or some other similar warning light comes on your dashboard? Does it mean your engine is about to blow up and that you have to have your car towed immediately to the...
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Currently gas prices are around $2.60 a gallon, which isn’t the worst it’s been, but it’s still pretty high and adds up quickly especially for those of us that have a long commute everyday. The average person today spends over $1500 a year on gas alone. In the average family spends over $2500 on...
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Most of us when our headlight bulbs burn out, just go and get the cheapest halogen replacement bulb at a local AutoZone or even Wal-Mart without putting much consideration into the bulbs durability, brightness, field of vision and effectiveness. We just go buy the cheapest thing, put it in there and drive. But just like the advancement...
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Unlike health insurance, car insurance is really not that expensive. Now that’s depending upon who you ask. The reason for this is car insurance is cheap for people that own their cars outright and don’t carry collision insurance coverage. Then there’s the other group of people whom have to drive brand-new cars all the...
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You’ve probably seen what is called auto wraps by now. Basically it’s a great big bumper sticker that this covers the car with advertising and it looks pretty good usually. Apparently these are wrapped to really start to take off now as businesses are finding that it’s a great source of floor traffic and...
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Are you in the market for a new car or truck? Are you thinking of replacing one of your vehicles with either a new or used vehicle? Well there are some things that you need to know if you want to save some money and not make the dealer rich. There is a reason why car...
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From time to time we all end up in the predicament of selling a car. Now sometimes many of us skip this predicament by just taking the vehicle to the car dealers and trading it in. The problem here is you’re getting ripped off whether you see it or not. The car dealer and his used...
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