11th February 2009

Getting to Know Your Car

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With today’s economy showing no signs of immediate improvement any time soon, there exists an increased need for us to save money in any way we can. One of the things that we can do to accomplish this is to give more attention to maintaining our vehicles. With the auto industry being hit by the global recession and auto sales is still on the decline, more and more people are learning how important it is to get to know ones vehicle.

At Auto Parts Place, we get the unique opportunity to speak with a lot of people who are either looking to do minor repairs on their cars or are into performing some preventive maintenance. Though, a lot of these are indeed commendable in their interest in keeping their cars in top condition, we have seen how a handful still has not taken the opportunity to know their cars well.

This post is to assist the enthusiast and even the normal car owner to get to know ones car better. This will not only be useful when the time comes when you need a repair or a part replaced but also in caring for your vehicle.

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12th August 2008

Checking Your Car 5 Minutes A Day

It is basic procedure to have your car checked on a scheduled basis, i.e., weekly, monthly, or even annually. However, it is also essential to create a habit of checking your car on a daily basis. Aside from giving you peace of mind throughout the day, it also lets you know at once if there is any basic repair that needs to be made.

Here are the auto parts that you can check for a total of only five minutes a day: Read the rest of this entry »

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13th November 2007

Vehicular Urban Disguise Techniques

With the ever increasing number of vehicles on our cities’ roads nowadays, it is not uncommon for anybody to have experienced the challenge of finding a parking space.  A lot of times, we take the risk of parking where we shouldn’t, only to get our vehicles towed away or worse.  Listed below are simple accessories and auto parts that one can add to his vehicle to optimize it for unauthorized parking in loading zones, to deter vandalism, and for industrial photography infiltration.

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8th May 2007

Dealing with the Dreaded Car Scratch

I remember when I was a kid, how fascinated I am with comic books.  The comic parts of the paper are always my first go-to page when I read it.  As I grow up I never lost that habit, and though I do not feel the excitement I felt once when I was a kid with comics, I still find them interesting.

Thinking of those days, I figured how great it will be to have a comic entry for my blog every now and then.  This post is the result of hours of making my first comic post a fun read.

Though there will surely be a lot of improvement, I enjoyed the experience of making this post.  Here, I discussed how to survive the dreaded “car scratch”.  Sometimes, problems like this stress us more than they should.  One must know that having a scratched paint surface for one’s vintage car does not immediately mean replacing your vehicles body or any auto parts for that matter.

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23rd January 2007

The Vanilla Ice Cream Effect

Supposedly this is BASED ON A TRUE STORY:

The president of a major Car Company received the following comlaint:

Even though the letter looks preposterous, he sent an engineer to check the situation out.  Read the rest of this entry »

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