Posts Tagged ‘Car Owner’

Car Insurance – For Those Who Don’t Own A Car

April 29th, 2010



Why should anybody who doesn’t own a car even bother about owning a car insurance policy. This is such a brilliant question. Owning a car insurance policy despite not having a car would be a smart decision in a number of situations to be discussed shortly.

You may not need a personal car for your daily movements if you live in a big city with an efficient mass transit system. You can easily go to a car rental service whenever you want to go for a picnic or vacation.

Along with providing you with cars for the period you want to use a private car, these rental companies also sell car insurance policies that cover you throughout that period. This may not really amount to so much if you rent a car once in a long while. The opposite is the case if you rent a car often making it more expensive than getting a non-owner car insurance policy.

Another reason will become apparent if you intend to borrow a car. Everybody will feel more comfortable lending you their car if they know you are so thoughtful as to even get a car insurance policy. Doesn’t the gesture of getting a non-owner car insurance policy tell you such a person is very thoughtful? People like dealing with people who show that they are responsible.

Before you run with the wrong impression, let me clarify something about a non-owner car insurance policy. Your non-owner’s policy cannot override the car owners policy. This policy gets to work if the car owner’s policy cannot cover the damages caused. As an example…

Imagine that you borrowed a car and had an accident where you caused a damage of $27,000. Your non-owner’s policy will not be touched if the car owner’s liability limit is $30,000. This will not be the case if his/her liability limit were to be half the amount. In such a situation your non-owner’s policy will come into effect to take care of the deficit.

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By: Chimezirim Chinecherem Odimba

Car Upgrades – Upgrade Your Car

March 24th, 2010



We need to upgrade our car frequently. By regular upgrading, we can only keep enjoying our car rides and drives. For this reason, you must think about the improvisation. Generally, people upgrade their cars for two reasons; to style it up and to improve its performance. Based on these two reasons, the upgrades available for any car fall in below four categories of upgrading:

-lighting system
-performance chips
-body kits
-interior and exterior trims

Most people prefer to do the upgrade by replacing and changing lighting system, performance chips and body kits than replacing and changing the interior, exterior trims.

Putting high definition and latest technologies of lighting source that will emit better lights for your car is a good choice. There are different kinds of lights available, you may consider buying them for upgrading your car. Those lighting systems mostly are LED, HID, XENON etc.

Performance chips are good elements for your car upgrade. They add torque and robust horsepower to your engine maintaining fuel consumption at economy level. These work as performance multiplier. Many performance chips are available. You may consider getting them to install on your car.

Body kits are car upgrade options but they do not offer any change with performance. Your performance will remain same but your car will get a new look for changing and replacing the car body kits.

Interior and exterior trims are also considered as important car upgrades. But like body kits replacement interior and exterior trims change and replacement do not offer any performance improvement. They simply add beauty or enhance the aesthetic appeal of your car.

Based on your need you may visit different online stores to get available upgrades for your car. They are smart and wise choice for every car owner.

By: Faisal Farrukh

Getting to Know Your Transmission

October 9th, 2009

When the time comes that you need to take your car in for repair, it helps if you have at least a minimal understanding of the various parts of your engine and other inner workings. Otherwise, you make an easy target for unscrupulous technicians.

One of the most costly parts of an automobile to have repaired is the transmission. Sometimes though, the repair cost is only so high, because a shady mechanic has informed a car owner that something needs to be fixed, that really doesn’t. If you have just a bit of basic knowledge about your transmission, then you stand a better chance of preventing yourself from being scammed by a dishonest auto technician.

Crucial Components of the Automatic Transmission.

->    Gears

•    Planetary gears- this set consist of the sun gear, a ring gear, and at least two planet gears. They all operate together and spin on pinions, (shafts).

->    Seals and Gaskets

•    This is what prevents the oil in the transmission from leaking out into the parts of the engine.

->    Torque Converter

•    In an automatic transmission, this is what allows the car to stop while in gear, like a clutch.

->    Bell Housing

•    When you look under your hood, you should see a cone shaped metal case; this is what holds the transmission.

->    Transmission Fluid

•    Without fluid, none of the transmission components will work very well, or not at all.

->    Filter

•    The fluid has to be kept clean, and the filter is what does this. The fluid flows through the filter, and the filter catches all the little particles of dirt.

->    Hydraulic System

•    Pretty much runs the transmission, by sending the fluid sent by the oil pump through the valve body, which controls the clutches and the bands, which control the planetary gear sets.

->    Computer

•    Newer vehicles have electrical solenoids, which enable the oil flow to reach the component needed at the appropriate time. The computer controls the shift points, which direct the solenoids.

->    Throttle cable

->    Vacuum Modulator

->    Governor

•    Each of these components monitor speed and throttle position, and determine when shifting is needed.

->    Oil pump

•    The oil pump in the transmission creates and maintains the pressure needed to power the transmission.

->    Valve body

•    Basically, this is the control center of an automatic transmission, the hydraulic fluid is directed through the valve body, without it, the engine could not function.



Do  Not Let The Repair Technician Intimidate You.


Now that you know what the basic parts of your automatic transmission is called, and how each one contributes to the workings of the transmission, you have a small advantage over less informed car owners. When the car starts acting odd, or making funny noises, take it in to be fixed, but do not allow yourself to become a victim of auto repair fraud. Ask the mechanic to explain what he needs to fix, and why he believes it needs to replaced or repaired, and you have the right to know how he intends to go about the process. You will feel less intimidated by the technical jargon, now that you know what the mechanic is talking about.

 

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