Volkswagen USA is issuing a recall concerning some 2005-2008 Jetta sedans and 2006-2008 Rabbit/GTI/R32 vehicles. It seems these select vehicles fail to fully conform to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 108- Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment. What is the problem? Some vehicle may have missing or misplaced caps on certain aiming adjustments as […]
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Imagine a tire that lasted twice the life span of an ordinary tire. One that could go for twice the distance with no sacrifice in wear, ride, comfort, or handling whatsoever. Well Michelin, the world’s second-largest tire manufacture, has just announced it is working on several new advances in tire-technology aimed at reducing your cars […]
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Posted in Automotive, Safety, Wheels on Nov 6th, 2007
Customizing cars has been a part of car culture almost as long as the automobile. With the never ending need to stand out, it seems everyone these days has to do something to make their car unique, to make it their own. It’s not too long ago that California Hot-Rod shops were turning lowly little […]
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Posted in Automotive, Safety on Nov 6th, 2007
“One million cars are stolen each year, and 30,000 of them are involved in high-speed chases that result in an average of 256 injuries and 350 deaths.” Watch out thieves! Here comes On Star’s plan… Beginning with its 2009 models, half of all GM vehicles, 1.7 million, mostly Chevrolets, will have an OnStar emergency satellite […]
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Posted in Automotive, Safety on Nov 5th, 2007
So Chrysler made a big announcement, but not about a new model but a new feature they will be adding. It is a Satellite Television system, now I know what your thinking…cool! But I agree with automobilemag.com in that you wonder what Chrysler is thinking about, its safety features or more reasons to distract us […]
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Posted in Automotive, Recalls, Safety, Warranties on Oct 27th, 2007
More bad news for Toyota. In the midst of all their problems latetly Toyota has been forced to recall another 470,000 cars in it’s home market of Japan. This could not come at a worst time for the fledging Japanese auto giant whose quality has been slipping as of late in some very public ways. […]
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Posted in Automotive, Recalls, Safety, Warranties on Oct 26th, 2007
Toyota Motor USA, issued a “warranty enhancement” yesterday for a problem with it’s 2004-2006 Sienna mini-vans. Though very similar, Toyota stress that this is not a recall of any sort even though, basically, it is. The problem affects almost all Sienna mini-vans for the U.S market. Around 592,100 affected Sienna owners should have been notified […]
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Posted in Automotive, Car Reviews, Recalls, Safety on Oct 25th, 2007
Earlier this year, industry giant Consumer Reports has retracted it’s infant car seat study after a major discrepancy was found in their testing methods. The tests seemed to show that many of the infant seats wouldn’t protect babies from side impact collisions at around 38 mph. Most of the seats were ranked by the magazine […]
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Posted in Safety on Oct 24th, 2007
With winter almost upon us a few manufactures have started introducing their new winter tires for the season. Winter or “snow” tires as they’re know are an important safety measure for those of us that live were temperatures dip below freezing and ice and snow can be found. Ice is the worst thing a tire […]
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Posted in Safety on Oct 2nd, 2007
We all heard since we were little, “Buckle Up”, but auto-previews.com has some scary statistics that people still don’t get it. They found that 42,636 people died in vehicle crashes in 2004 and “55 percent of 2004’s highway fatality victims were not wearing seatbelts, and NHTSA’s estimation that 14,570 individuals were saved in 2002 simply […]
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