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Why Should You Avoid Idling Your Car?

Why Should You Avoid Idling Your Car?

Limit idling your car as much as possible. It's something that produces unnecessary greenhouse gases, gets you nowhere, and ultimately wastes fuel. If you're going to stop your vehicle for more than 30 seconds, turn off the engine. The only time you shouldn't do this with a stopped vehicle is when you're in traffic. Do this in spring where the temperature is mild. However, in the winter, don't idle your cold engine for more than 30 seconds before driving it. This is true for many modern vehicles. Idling Your Car During the Cold Can Hurt It Stop Idling and Only...

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How to Decide Whether to Wax or Polish a Car

How to Decide Whether to Wax or Polish a Car

It might be difficult to decide whether a car should be waxed or polished if you don't know which is which. Polishes tend to remove paint imperfections and polishing is typically used as a preparatory step for waxing. The paint finish should be cleaned first by carwash and then polished further by polishing before the final step of waxing is attempted. The wax makes a car shiny but without cleaning and polishing it first, you're mostly adding a glossy finish to a dirty car that lessens its shine potential. Polishing ensures that your wax has a deep shine that it...

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Shopping for a Speedometer Drive Gear

Shopping for a Speedometer Drive Gear

A speedometer is something you can depend on in order to ensure you're following the speed limits of a given area or street. It's a safety feature of your car that ensures you won't inadvertently go so fast that your car will spin out of control and whatnot if you were to hit something by accident. It's also what you use in order to shift from low gear to high gear when driving a manual transmission vehicle or stick shift. The speedometer drive or worm gear is the spur gear that meshes with the worm or a gear in screw...

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Polish Your Car for Longer Exterior Lifespan

Polish Your Car for Longer Exterior Lifespan

You can vastly improve your car exterior's lifespan by polishing it regularly. Yes, yes. That's stating the obvious. However, most people neglect doing this, thinking that the clearcoat paint will save the day every time. Ever since the 1980s, waxing and polishing went from being essential to car maintenance to optional due to the use of clearcoat paint that has a glossy layer of film over the paint in order to give it a polished look without polishing it. However, it's better to polish even cars with clearcoat paints because the extra shine is worth the effort, it helps protect...

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Manual or Automatic Gearbox: Which is better?

Manual or Automatic Gearbox: Which is better?

All vehicles have either a manual or automatic gearbox. In fact, there are even those that have both options, especially modern cars like the hybrid electric. Once upon a time, as recently as 20 to 30 years ago, manual transmission was the norm. The self-shifting automatics were only for senior citizens or drivers of luxury saloons. Now, you'll be hard-pressed to find a Millennial or Gen Z driver that knows how to drive a stick-shift. These days, the opposite of the former norm of everything being manual shift has, for lack of a better term, "shifted", such that there are...

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