Author: Car Talk

  • 5 Supplies in a Typical Touch Paint Kit

    Almost nothing ruins the appearance of a vehicle faster than unsightly scratches. Repairing deep paint scratches can cost anywhere from $300 to $3,000. Your cost will depend on how much damage happens to your automobile. Fortunately, you can avoid the majority of these costs by touching up vehicle paint on your own. However, you’ll need…

  • Five Benefits of Driving School

    We all remember that exciting, wonderful feeling from the first time we drove a car. Starting it up, feeling the power of the engine, and then…taking off down the road. What a thrill! There is absolutely, positively no turning back, ever! And then there was the other thrill–the thrill of beginner driving school. Not quite…

  • 3 Tips to Avoid Damage to Machine Tools

    It happens to all of us at one time or another. You’re at work on a regular day and all of a sudden the equipment you are using makes a funny sound. Or worse, it just stops working. Perhaps it’s a computer, or a bicycle or even a car. But one thing is sure: when…

  • New Drivers Often Require a Great Deal of Practice Before They Become Proficient

    Beginning driving courses offer first time drivers a chance to hone their skills in the safest of environments. From the opportunity to practice parallel parking to learning how to stop and start smoothly, traffic lessons can help you be more confident when you are out on real roads. It should come as no surprise that…

  • Prevent Drinking and Driving Through Effective Barriers Like Breathalyzers and Ignition Interlock Devices

    For driving enthusiasts, it can always be a thrill to get behind the wheel and enjoy the performance of your prized vehicle. Indeed, apart from the daily conveniences that owning a vehicle can provide, it is the thrill and excitement of driving that swings the balance for many to go out and purchase a car.…

  • Just 65% Of Teenagers Consistently Wear Their Seatbelt The Benefits Of Certified Traffic Lessons

    It’s time to learn how to drive. Should you ask a friend if you can run circles in the parking lot until you get the hang of it? Not so fast. It’s better to be safe than sorry when operating heavy machinery. Considering how many road hazards the average driver faces today, getting your safety…

  • Finding the Right Hose Clamp Can Help You Solve Many Every Household Challenges

    It is both frustrating and encouraging that the problems with the basement hot water heaters simply came down to a set of mini hose clamps. Frustrating because this is a fix that you probably should have been able to take care of yourself, without calling in an expensive professional; encouraging because at least you do…

  • Why Get an Aftermarket Pump For Your Diesel Engine?

    If you drive a diesel engine vehicle, you know how great they can be. The average diesel engine gets 45 miles to the gallon on the highway, and on a single tank of fuel a diesel engine can take you between 400 and 800 miles. For a variety of reasons, diesel engines are only now…

  • Ignition Interlock Device Myths Debunked

    If you find yourself facing one or more convictions of drinking and driving you could quickly find yourself with a car breathalyzer, also know as an ignition interlock. Drinking and driving is the cause of 28 deaths per day in America and the crashes alone cost more than $59 billion annually. These devices are responsible…

  • What Is the Best Car You Have Ever Owned?

    Everyone on campus, including the Department of Public Safety (DPS) workers, knows the owner of the 1969 Mustang. Although it does not have a working air conditioner and the vehicle is far from mint condition, the owner covers his car every day. In an effort at further protection for one of his most loved possessions,…