Women risk theft and personal injury by carrying around a heavy load in their handbags and cars, which could cost them dearly without adequate contents insurance and car insurance.
Women leave £2 billion of personal belongings in their cars on a daily basis, an average of at least four items and £129 per car, according to research from Sheilas’ Wheels car insurance, putting themselves in danger of theft, accidents and injury. A further 18 per cent admitted to having at least seven personal items in their cars.
By Melvin | September 15, 2009
What’s legal?The law states that if you use or keep a vehicle on a public road, you must display a valid tax disc on it. As the registered owner of a car, it’s your responsibility to tax it. It’s simple enough – if you don’t own an up-to-date visible tax disc, you won’t be able to drive your car.How much will it cost to tax your specific motor? It depends on at least one of three factors:
1. How old the vehicle is.
2. How large the engine capacity is.
3. How much CO2 it emits.
Everyone seems to either love or hate their cars. Each day, we spend a good part of either driving or being driven in cars and that is no accident. Cars are everywhere and each day we seem to grow more attached to them. For millions of people, they provide mobility and a sense of independence for millions of people
Car insurance is one of the necessary evils of modern life. You pay a substantial amount of money each month to the insurance company, and if you are like most people, you have not had an accident or made a claim in years. Yet when you do suddenly find yourself involved in a collision, the insurance premiums you’ve been forking over all these years will finally pay off.
A newly introduced car, known internally as “KB1″, was launched in late 2004 for early 2005 and is much a resemblance of the Mercedes-Benz E-Class. Even still, if not for the talked about V8 engine which features a posh all-wheel drive system which Acura fondly calls “Super Handling All-Wheel Drive”, it would not have been as successful. The Acura RL is the best automotive innovations of 2004, in fact, it earned the 2005 “Tech car of the year” from cnet.com. For 2008 surely marked the end of its predecessor, the Corolla 2007. Although it is obviously inferior to its rivals in terms of design, safety and power, the new Toyota Corolla remains to be one of the most gratifying investments for the middle class.
The most important thing to do when you buying a used car is to find a good mechanic who will tell you in what condition is car. Never go in shoping alone because you never know what is laying under the hood. With new cars is much different and much ease. You have brochures and everything about cars in them, of course if you don’t understand in cars you will need a mechanic too because on the market is soo much cars today that you don’t know which one is better then other. But you know one thing: more money you have got, the better car you can buy!
Have you ever thought of buying a vintage car of your own? If so, then the 1965 Pontiac Bonneville might interest you. It is a large car (its size was common in the 1960’s), and weighs approximately around 3,900 lbs.
Now, you ask, what so good about this car? The weight of the car plus the size, plus the length and width of it, prevents it to topple and spin if the car is to be involved in an accident. The car also has a low center of gravity and so, it is said to be stable. Not only that: if you acquire this car, you won’t only get these benefits, but also that of the stares of the people around you.
Photo taken from http://www.snuffledopple.com . Article by Christine Zafra
Alternative forms of transportation included are the Larazeth Triazuma, Ural, Harley-Davidson sidecars and Piaggio MP3, these vehicles can be considered green due to their lower emissions and higher fuel mileage than cars, the Triazuma would be very exciting to pilot. Another set of builders has experimented with the idea as well, making the SUB 3-Wheeler.
Police in Dubai have arrested a group of “high tech” car thieves who had them baffled for quite some time. The problem was that the stolen cars seemed to disappear completely. Once the cars were stolen, they were never turning up again anywhere. The trick, apparently, was that the thieves had bought previously totaled cars of the same model abroad. Then, they swapped out the car’s computer systems and any identifying information with the totaled cars. Then, the cars had every appearance of being the cars that had been bought from abroad, rather than the ones that were stolen
Like many of the fluids used in cars, brake fluid is quite corrosive which makes it dangerous if ingested by people. Brake fluid has changed little in the many years since it was introduced and is actually hydraulic fluid that has been designed to change little with extreme pressure and heat which turns it very hot without losing its abilities. Use regular oil and it’ll surely burn and either congeal or thin out losing its ability to compress properly to operate the pistons of the brake. It also has a lot of corrosive additives that allows it to dislodge rust and other contaminants, trapping it within the fluid to maintain proper consistency even when under pressure as the brake is applied. Want to know a sure way to ruin your car’s finish, spill brake fluid onto it and it’ll surely find the smallest holes in the protective clear coat causing paint to peel as if stripping agent was used. That is why the manual says you should wipe up any spilled fluid immediately, even washing it with shampoo and water to prevent damage to the car’s finish.
There are instances when you go to service when the service personnel would find water in the brake lines which happens naturally as contaminants enters the system say when driving through a flooded street. Water, air, dust and rust can take away the effectiveness of brake fluid making the brakes feel sluggish or even cause total failure of the system so keep your braking system in top form with regular inspection and maintenance at each and every oil change. Your life literally depends on it!
