Dec
25
Hottest Car Accessories – GPS traffic Navigator
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A car is not just a single object. It consists of a number of items: spare parts and accessories apart from the electronic and mechanical systems. While spare parts are a necessity, the car accessories are use to enhance your driving experience. There is a wide range of accessories: mirrors, lights, seat covers, car covers, ventilation systems, air cooling systems, audio and video systems, and many more. You can use any number of accessories provided your vehicle and your wallet support them.
The hottest accessories that are more desired these days are the GPS traffic navigator. They are electronic gadgets that connect to the local GPS service provider to offer you with traffic updates. They also offer you weather updates.
Some of the GPS traffic navigational systems also contain speed limit indicator. You can set the maximum and minimum speed limits on the gadget. This navigator alerts you if you are over speeding. Also, if you are driving too slowly, it sends out signals. The device is very useful as it saves you time as well as your fuel.
Dec
16
Finding the Right Spark Plug
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Spark Plug is an important element without which you cannot start your vehicle. It must be cleaned regularly to remove the carbon residing on it due to regular use. After a considerable period of time, the cleaning no longer works and you have to change the spark plug.
Changing a spark plug is not very difficult. You can do it yourself. The cost of a genuine spark plug is not high too. But to find the right spark plug, that is, finding the one, which lasts for longer time without having you to remove and clean it every time is a tough task.
To ease the purpose, you can always log on to the internet and locate the websites of dealers who sell car spares. You can compare the specification of the spark plug as well as the rates with the ones given in your manual. In case you are confused, you can give a call to the dealer from where you purchased the car.
Dec
8
As discussed earlier in the first part, you need to replace your tyres at regular intervals. Fine, you will replace the tyres! But when you go to the spares shop, you find a bunch of numbers on the tyre. For example, you see something like P185/65R14 86H on the slip. Can you make anything out of it? You can ask the dealer but it is always better to have knowledge about things that you want to buy instead f being misled by others. Won’t you agree?
Actually, this bunch of numbers is the standard ratings for that type of types. Let us see how to comprehend the numbers in the following lines. For this, we will take the above bunch as example. P indicates that the tyre is meant for passenger cars. It is not always present on the number bunch. 185 is the tyre width in mm. 65 is the ratio of height of the width. R is the radial construction while 14 is the rim diameter in inches. The next number shows an index for calculating the total weight the tyre can handle. The alphabet H depicts the speed limit.
So where do we use this information? For proper operation of the car, the wheels on both right and left sides should be of same type. The information comes handy for this case.