Watchmojo.com provides a step by step guide on how to change a blown fuse in your car
Check out WatchMojo’s profile of Ferrari:
A 23-year-old woman in California borrowed her boss’s Ferrari and, predictably, caused it to flip after taking a curve too fast. The accident caused an estimated $125,000 in damages, and the driver escaped without injury. However, her boss is pissed. Read more…
California is doing everything it can to help heal the earth. The latest way they plan to reduce carbon emissions is by…banning black cars. That’s right:
The California legislature is considering regulating the color of cars and reflectivity of paint to reduce the energy requirements to cool them. A presentation on the proposed legislation by the California Air Resources Board is below. (Continue…)
More on Autoblog and CrunchGear.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday the state would put “a lot of money” into the struggling car industry.
“We are working with the car sector, car makers and their suppliers, to get out of this situation and to finalize a plan by the end of January,” Mr. Sarkozy said.
“That means that we will be ready to give the necessary support, in the form of loans or guarantees, to compensate for the blockage in the financing of companies…but we will clearly ask them for an end to offshoring, and even the reinforcement of their activities in France,” he said.
Ford CEO Alan Mulally defends the Big Three in a CNN interview, saying they’re essential to the US economy and that they deserve a bailout:
Ford and Toyota revealed their October sales today - both of which were far below average. It is expected that when the rest of the industry’s sales reports are seen, they too will be low. It is likely that October 2008 was the lowest month for sales in the auto industry in 16 years. Read more…
According to Canoe.ca:
At the Convergence 2008 conference on automotive electronics yesterday, BMW revealed it is looking for partners as it pursues an open-source car computing platform. The German company is enthusiastic about the potential for such an open-source system’s potential to keep up with the rapid advances in technology and features in the multimedia and digital entertainment areas.
Check out WatchMojo’s profile of another BMW innovation - the Hydrogen 7:
Here is a list of signs to look for when checking out new mechanics. If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these questions, you may want to re-think your choice:
1. Your friends have had bad experiences at the shop.
2. The shop requires you to pay before the work is done.
3. The mechanic is not certified by any national association.
4. The parking lot is full of cars that don’t appear capable of movement.
5. The mechanic attempts diagnosis based upon your broad description.
6. The shop has lots of bad reviews online.
7. The mechanic does not appear to have specific knowledge of your make and model.
8. No estimate of time for repair.
9. Time for repair seems unnecessarily long.
10. The shop is very new or has very little history in the area.
11. The mechanic tries to suggest a myriad of other services for you at the time of your repair.
12. The mechanic suggests fixes which don’t add up.
13. The shop tells you you need to fix more things than you came in for, without a thorough explanation.
14. Lack of sufficient explanations.
15. The mechanic gives you a line like “good thing you brought this in, the car probably would not have lasted another 50 miles.”
16. The mechanic suggests one fix first, then when that doesn’t work, claims they “know” what has to be wrong this time.
17. Insisting they are the best in town without awards or recognition from the community to back it up.
18. The shop installs a new part, it fixes the problem but then fails soon after.
19. The mechanic won’t wait on you to call around to other shops or take the car other places to get estimates.
20. The mechanic cannot understand your explanation of the problem and asks you multiple times to repeat or rephrase.
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If you need to change your oil, check out WatchMojo’s handy instructions on how to do so:
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