Services, More Exciting Deals, More Auto Parts for the Industry’s Top Models
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Over 1 million auto parts are in stock for any of your car part replacement and aftermarket auto parts needs. Now you can expect more choices from performance parts like wheels, shock absorbers and alternator to auto accessories like carpet, hubcaps, wheel covers, mirrors and tail lights. Thousands of premium class Pontiac parts, Saturn parts, Toyota parts, BMW parts, Dodge parts, Mercedes Benz parts and Volvo parts for the latest models are now available and you can easily locate and purchase them online.
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The online store is designed to give you a seamless ordering experience. The parts are properly located under the vehicle make and vehicle year category so you are sure to get perfect-fit replacement auto parts, whatever your car model is. The online store is neatly designed to give you a hassle-free shopping experience. It has 100% secure site so you can be confident in placing your orders online. Should you need assistance, auto experts are standing by to help you.
Auto Parts Wholesale continuously improves and grows with the ever-changing auto industry. Success requires good systems operations and organization, and Auto Parts Wholesale is proud to have both. Its passion for excellence created a bond with its past customers and has kept them loyal through the yearscontinuously relying on the company for all their car and truck part needs. Be one of them!
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Joe Thompson is the owner of a successful auto body shop in Ferndale, California. This 48 year old is also a prolific writer, contributing automotive related articles to various publications.
Car Insurance Quotes online
Every one purchases car insurance when they buy a new car. When looking for the right rates of an insurance policy you should search the internet and your local broker. Both will give you with suitable rates but online quotes will always be less. Finding Car Insurance Quotes online is a fairly easy job; you can get best rates and coverage with just a click of a button. You can even find customized insurances on the internet, this way you can easily get all the benefits and select the best one by yourself.
There are huge numbers of websites offering car insurances and this gives you a wide range to choose from. You will need to provide the website with certain information like credit history, model of your car and its details. To find the best quotes online you should do a comparison among a number of car insurance. This way you can select the one that meets your criteria easily. Another advantage of looking at car insurances online is that you can read customer reviews about the service and the coverage of that insurance. This can give you a much needed insight of the insurance policy and its coverage.
Catalytic Converters and Your Vehicle’s Emission System
Before 1975 no U.S. vehicle came equipped with a catalytic converter. Changes in environmental policy — started with the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] by the Nixon Administration - soon changed all of that. Now, with very few exceptions, all vehicles must come outfitted with a catalytic converter. So, what does a catalytic converter do exactly? Good question…we will answer that query in this article.
When your engine burns fuel it produces gases that are harmful to the environment. If not handled properly, these same gases will exit through your vehicle’s exhaust and work to do harm on the environment. The EPA, which was established in 1970, mandated that starting in 1975 vehicles were to come equipped with an apparatus to reduce dangerous emissions. The particular piece of equipment created to accomplish this task was the catalytic converter.
The catalytic converter in your vehicle is installed in the exhaust line between the exhaust manifold and the muffler. Pellets inside the converter work to transform detrimental gases into harmless gases before they exit the tailpipe and go out into the open air. As you might guess, a properly functioning catalytic converter is essential toward preserving air quality standards.
There are four telltale signs that indicate a catalytic converter will soon fail:
Rusted or broken converter body or end tubes.
Bits of substrate in other sections of the exhaust system.
No rattle detected in a pellitized converter (If the converter doesn’t rattle, the pellets may have melted together or fallen out).
A rattle detected in a monolithic converter (A rattle in this kind of converter indicates the substrate has separated.)
If you see evidence of any of these signs, then you must replace your catalytic converter right away. If you don’t, you risk receiving a ticket from a police officer and you may automatically fail your next motor vehicle inspection.
You can install a new catalytic converter yourself and save money on parts and labor. Shop online for the best deals going.
Matt Keegan is a contributing writer for the Auto Parts Warehouse, a supplier of high quality replacement parts and accessories for most vehicles on North American roads. Shop for a catalytic converter
Including a Ford converter or a VW Beetle converter today.
Acura RSX 2004: The Weekly Driver Review
As Acura’s entry-level vehicle, the RSX is positioned in the sporty coupe
class. It’s perfectly categorized.
With its stylish, contoured exterior, firm contouring seats, tight-shifting, six-speed manual (Type-S) transmission and compact racing steering wheel, the RSX is an economically priced sports car that’s fun to drive and grabs its share of attention on the road.
My test drive for the week couldn’t have been more conspicuous. The
shiny red hatchback model drew a lot of attention, including a quick
conversation with two retirees who “bolted” out a neighborhood barber
shop to take a look at the car while I was at the nearby post office.
“What kind of car is that?” one of seniors asked when I returned and
noticed them standing in front of the vehicle. “Look at that styling. That’s
a nice, little sports car.”
The RSX, particularly the Type S and its four-cyclinder, 16-valve, 200
horsepower engine, is exactly that.
Like other sports coupes, it has limited rear-seat room and it’s noisy,
particularly considering it’s an Acura.
But with its tight-shifting gears, quick and responsive steering and zippy
overall feel, the RSX is nothing but a fun drive, nicely appointed and
economical offering by the well-respected manufacturer.
The list of standard technical, safey, interior and exterior features is
impressive.
The interior, for example, includes perforated leather seats, automatic
climate control, BOSE AM/FM casette and six-CD, in-dash CD changer,
power window and door locks.
In addition to its aforementioned engine, standard technical features
include four-wheel disc brakes, rack-and-pinion power steering and
under normal road conditions and no scheduled tune-ups for 110,00
miles. A power sun and moon roof, 16-inch alloy wheels, power door
mirrors and heated outside mirrors are among the exterior features.
One nice additonal design feature is the configuration of the hatchback
and its removable security screen. With the screen attached, the sun is
blocked and stored items can’t be seen. With the screen detached and
the rear split seats folded down, the coupe has enough extended back
seat space for alpine skis or fence posts.
During my week with the vehicle, I had only one passenger, a good
friend I drove into the Sierra Nevad foothills for a running event. He liked
the car’s styling, its simple, elegant instrumentation and its feel on the
road. His only concern was that as a 5-10, 185 pound man, he couldn’t
fully extend his legs in the front seat.
With its $500 destination and handling fee, the price of my RSX was
$23,820. As such, it’s often-designated ranking as a consumer’s guide
“Best Buy” is difficult to dispute.
2004 Acura RSX
Safety features — Driver and front seat passenger dual stage
front air and side air bags, ABS brakes.
Fuel Mileage (estimates) — 24 mpg (city), 31 mpg (highway).
Warranty — Bumper to bumper, 4 years/50,000 miles; Corrosion,
5 years, unlimited mileage; 24-hour, roadside assistance, 4 years/
50,000 miles.
Base price — $23,320.00.
James Raia is a syndicated journalist in Sacramento, California, who
writes about sports, fitness, travel and lifestyle topics as well as the car
review colum, The Weekly Driver.
To read more car reviews, visit: The Weekly Driver
If Your Car Engine is Starved For Coolant, it Will “Seize Up”, Another Way of Saying “I Quit”
On the car you buy, used or new, the engine and coolant system is really a simple boiler
Car engines operate on the same principal as a locomotive steam engine boiler. The difference is that instead of heating the water (coolant) with firewood or coal, the hot engine in the car provides the heat because ignition is taking place inside of its cylinders at 2,000oF. This is true of all cars whether or not you make a car comparison between different models before buying one.
Modern car engine coolant systems are operated at about 220o F; which is above the 212oF that water boils at sea level. As the coolant temperate exceeds 212oF, it begins to turn to steam and the pressure rises. That means empty volumes above the coolant level will be filled with pressurized “steam”. The hot engine continues to add heat to the coolant until the coolant reaches about 220oF operating temperature. The water pump continually moves the coolant around the engine cylinder block until the coolant temperature reaches this operating temperature.
Now the radiator starts to do its job
At the operating temperature a sensitive valve opens in the radiator, allowing the hot coolant to be pumped into the radiator where the air being pushed out of the way by the moving car will hopefully be enough to continually maintain its system operating temperature at 220oF. But remember, the pressure in the entire coolant system now is greater than the outside air we are breathing. That means the coolant wants to get out,
and it will, through any tiny crack it can find. Eventually some will get out, and the coolant supply will decrease. If it decreases enough, the engine cannot be cooled enough and engine parts will expand and “seize”, ruining the engine.
How to avoid an overheated engine
To avoid this problem, the engine system has a clever makeup coolant tank connected to it through a check valve.
What’s a check valve?
Here’s how to make one in your kitchen and see how one works.
Take a throwaway plastic cup and make a round hole in its bottom. Take a round marble bigger than the hole and dump a lot of kitchen cleanser around the hole in the cup; then take the marble and rub it around the hole until it really make a nice round seat in the hole.
Now fill the cup half full of water. If you did a good job no water will sneak around the marble and drip out of the bottom of the cup. Hooray!
Now take your finger and slightly lift up the marble from beneath the cup, raising it slightly above the seat you created by scrubbing with cleanser (do it over the sink) and water will leak out on your finger.
You have just made a one-way check valve.
The coolant makeup tank has such a check valve in it but also has a spring to keep the ball pressed down on the valve seat. That side is toward the radiator, so that coolant under pressure cannot push back into the coolant makeup tank, which is under atmospheric pressure.
What happens when the car cools down?
When the coolant in the engine and radiator cools down to below boiling temperature, the steam that was above the liquid coolant will condense (turn back to water or coolant) and the coolant system will have a pressure that is less than the outside pressure of the air you are breathing………………a vacuum will form in the coolant system.
Now it gets exciting.
The cycle reverses
Whereas while the engine was running, the hot coolant wanted to get out; but now that it has cooled down, the outside pressure (what you’re breathing) is more than the pressure in the coolant system (that includes the entire engine, the radiator and all the connecting hoses) and now the engine and radiator combined want to suck something in, namely more coolant.
When this happens, the check value in the coolant is opened by atmospheric pressure, overcoming the spring on the check valve, and fresh makeup coolant is sucked into the radiator, thereby replenishing coolant to normal.
So every time you stop and car and let the engine cool down, the whole system automatically restores the coolant level to normal without any driver assistance. Magic? You bet.
Maintenance
Always keep the coolant makeup reservoir at least half full. It’s usually under the hood in a semi-transparent plastic tank, fastened against the inside of one of the front fenders, and the coolant is always colored (in winter) so the level can be easily monitored.
Something to think about: The hot air you arrange to heat your feet, inside the car, is really inside air blowing across a very small radiator, just like the big radiator under the hood. This foot-warmer radiator too goes through the same pressure increases and decreases, as does the whole coolant system, since it is part of it.
So don’t ever kick it with a sharp toe if you’re mad at it while the engine is running, or you will get a free bath of really, really hot, coolant water sprayed all over your feet.
Article author
Ralph Hoffmann majored in Applied Math at the Univ. of Wis. His venture capital and business experience encouraged him to develop Internet site
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