Archive for September, 2009
Start The New Year With A New Car
In addition to shedding the excess pounds gained over the festive period many decide to use the beginning of the calendar year to engage in some muchneeded spring cleaning. Apart from replacing household appliances and getting rid of unwanted gifts many decide to start the New Year by buying a new car. But before you rush off to the nearest dealership there are a few practical concerns that must be evaluated before undertaking such an endeavour.
First assess your needs as a car user. Changes to your household might have influenced your decision to look for a larger or smaller car so think about how this will alter your needs. For example if your current car has a larger boot and enough seats for children that have now grown up and left the home a smaller car and a smaller boot may be in order.
Second consider the engine and fuel efficiency. How much distance do you cover on a regular basis? If you are planning to do more than just travelling to and back from work with the odd weekend trip it could be better to opt for a diesel engine. Diesel engines have a higher fuel efficiency compared to standard petrol engines and are better for the environment due to lower CO2 emissions.
When testdriving a potential new car keep in mind how it compares to your current one. Testdrive the car for as long as is necessary and try to drive on a bumpy road and if its possible take it onto the highway. If the car has an automatic transmission pay particular attention to it as it is relatively easy to break and relatively expensive to repair. If possible also try to testdrive another car of the same model for comparison.
When it comes to where to buy a new car consumers are simply spoilt for choice. In addition to franchised dealers and car supermarkets online car classifieds have become increasingly popular. If you do decide to use the latter make sure to do your research properly before parting with any money for the car. Also be sure to get all the necessary paperwork with your purchase such as a receipt as proof of purchase a copy of the warranty the service book and the logbook.
Remember that buying a car is one of the most important decisions of any household and you should never part with your money without complete peace of mind. Bearing the aforementioned points in mind should ensure that you wont be looking for a new car next year too.
About the writer: Andrew Regan is an online freelance author from Scotland. He is a keen rugby player and enjoys travelling.
Simple Fuel Efficiency
As gas prices have skyrocketed more and more of us are looking for ways to minimize our fuel usage. Almost everyone I know has cut down on their driving to one extent or another but still we cringe when we have to fill it up a couple to times to make it to that wedding or graduation that we can not miss. Since most of you are not in a position to scurry down to your local car dealership and buy the latest super hybrid fuel miser I thought you might appreciate some less expensive options to increasing how much value you are getting for your fuel dollar.
Superior maintenance maximizes fuel efficiency
It is amazing to hear someone complaining about gas prices and then balks at spending the money to give their car a tuneup. When ignition components become worn mileage drops significantly. A clogged air filter or PCV valve can destroy good fuel efficiency.
Most of these items are fairly easy to service yourself. Replace your air filter and PCV valve frequently. Make sure the spark plugs and wires are in good condition. If your engine has a distributor make sure that the rotor and cap are in free of corrosion or wear.
A vehicle in good tune may get 2540 better mileage than one that is in need of maintenance.
Help your engine to breath better
Just like you your engine works much more efficiently when it can breathe more easily. Try a high flow air filter like the ones made by K N. Consider replacing your muffler with a more efficient type like the Aero Turbine. These two simple modifications may increase your gas mileage by up to 15. Your investment of about 225 for both of these items will have paid for itself by the endoftheyear.
Get more value at the pump
Have you noticed that when an article appears in the media about oil prices going up that within hours your local service station has raised it prices as well? Since there is about a six months delay between when an oil company purchases oil and when the refined gasoline or diesel is sold at the pump this increase has nothing to do with the actual cost of fuel but rather what the retailer thinks they can get away with charging. The appropriate term for this practice is price gouging. This only succeeds if the consumer refuses to change their purchasing habits and continues to buy the same amount from the same people regardless of price.
Unfortunately most consumers think they are powerless to do anything about these price increases. However if you look around you can usually find one or two stations that dont raise their prices quite as much as the others. If everyone truly shopped around and consistently bought from the lowest priced retailer then other retailers would be forced to compete to stay in business. Attempt to reduce your fuel usage when prices spike. Buy more fuel at a time when prices are lower. The free market only works if you force it too by insisting on the lowest price for commodities like gasoline and diesel. This is the only way to stimulate the competition required to reduce or eliminate price gouging.
Buy fuel not fumes
Gasoline and diesel are highly evaporative and when a portion of your fuel is transformed into vapor it is usually lost into the atmosphere before your engine can use it. At the very least vapor displaces fuel so that the same volume actually contains less fuel. There are a number of strategies that can reduce vapor loss and maximize how much of the fuel you purchase is available to your engine. This in turn translates into more mileage for your fuel dollar.
1. Buy your fuel as early in the day as possible. As temperatures rise more fuel turns into vapor. The more activity at a station the more the fuel is agitated which in turn causes more vapors. When the stations first open in the morning is when there is the least percentage of vapors in the fuel that is being pumped into your tank.
2. Never buy fuel when the station is refueling. Refueling causes a great deal of agitation which turns more of the fuel into vapor.
3. Have your gas pumped as slowly as possible. The faster fuel is pumped the more it is agitated and agitation turns fuel into vapor. The pumping equipment does not differentiate very well between a gallon of fuel and a gallon of vapor. The faster your fuel is pumped the larger the percentage of vapor in each gallon.
4. Keep your tank as full as possible. As tanks empty evaporation increases. A full tank has very little surface exposed to air which greatly reduces evaporation.
I hope these tips save you some money and gas!
If you have not yet read the essay The Great Biofuel Hoax of 2008 this might be a good time to check it out. In addition to becoming an environmental and humanitarian disaster biofuels will decrease your fuel economy.
About the writer: Randy Bisenz is the founder of http://www.BrightFuture.us a nonpartisan article hub and online community focused on solutions to worldwide problems.
Run Your Car On Water ! Convert You Car To Burn Water – Do It Yourselft
WATER4GAS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Water4Gas is a technology based on splitting water on board a vehicle and using the resulting gases not to drive the vehicle but only to boost the efficiency of its combustion.
It is a DoItYourself technology specifically designed for beginners with no special tools and very limited budgets. A working system can be built at home with basic hand tools for 20100 installed in minutes and removed in seconds.
No modifications to the engine computer or fuel injection systems so any backyard mechanic can install it easily.
The technology is age old over 91 years. All we’ve done is raise it from the dead and develop a simple structure based on low cost hardware. Although there is a myriad of hydrogen generating designs out there ours is the simplest and also the safest for the beginner. The electrolyzer bubbler and water reservoir have all been combined into one supersimple device.
Another advantage is the employment of coiled/spiraled electrode WIRES rather than flat plates or spiraled plates. The magnetic vortex created by the coil assists water splitting so we don’t need as much power from the car’s electrical system thus simplifying the system even further and lowering its cost.
Three major factors work together to cause water splitting: direct current flowing through the electrode wires to the water the magnetic vortex created by the shape of the electrodes and the vacuum provided by the engine itself.
The effects of this technology is lowered emissions and improved mileage simply due to a MORE COMPLETE COMBUSTION. Today’s internal combustion engines suffer from poor efficiency of 2025 as any mechanic will tell you; 7580 of the gasoline instead of being converted to forward motion is instead converted to pollution and carbon deposits unburned fuel as well as heat global warming vibration and noise knocking/pinging.
THE MAIN PROBLEM IS OVERSIZED FUEL DROPLETS IN THE MIXTURE. The Hydrogen being such a small particle hits a droplet cuts it into smaller droplets and attaches itself to the smaller droplets. Now the finer hydrogenenhanced mixture is capable of burning more thoroughly.
On top of improved performance the engine steamcleans itself every day and the resulting effect is smoother and quieter operation. One of our staff was shocked when she checked her engine oil and was sure that her oil ran totally out. Actually what happened was that while she was expecting dark brown dirty oil the oil was actually so transparent that she could not see it on the dip stick. Her 20yearold car is as smooth now with our device on as it was when she bought it 17 years ago.
Another lady “complained” that she could not hear the engine running…but to her surprise the car was still moving along.
Our technology is not capable of running a car on water alone. Our aim is not to replace gasoline but to enhance it and open the door and the mind to the possibilities of waterfuel technology. With correct fine tuning we can double the mileage rendering a new energy balance: half gasoline half water. Very little water is used in an economy car it’s around 2700 miles per gallon of distilled water together with 46 teaspoons of household baking soda as catalyst. We have demonstrated many times that the fuel consumption of a 4stroke generator can also be cut in half with our technology.
Not all cars loads and driving conditions will gain the same obviously. For ethical reasons we do not build up expectations for more than 1050 improvement in fuel economy however we are getting daily success stories from experimenters who are seeing gains of 80100 in various vehicles. For some significant economy gains inflict a revelation that something can be done about it while for others it’s a life changing factor.
We sell books that teach EVERYTHING about the technology and how to manufacture it as well as sponsoring a f’ree marketplace where sellers and buyers of actual systems can find each other and trade without interference and without any fees paid to us. Like in the Golden Age of Greece no police very little government.
At the time of writing we have more than 3200 satisfied customers over 400 registered independent manufacturers/installers and an unknown number of affiliates promoting us all over the world. 8590 of our sales occur via affiliates and more are joining due to the generous 50 commission rate and the skyrocketing popularity of the product and the technology.
All in all Water4Gas has become a buzzword for practicality and affordability. Our policy is to guide the readers toward a mindset of an experimenter rather than a driver that takes things for granted. We teach them that something can be done about gas prices pollution and global warming and they gladly take an active role and help to spread the word.
At the time of writing the technology is only for gasoline and diesel cars and trucks. However many of our experimenters are working on adaptations to propane/LPG/CNG propelled vehicles as well as boats and other applications such as stationary generators.
We’re getting daily requests from business people around the world as well as inventors inspired by our success requesting that we work with them to advance their goals and purposes. We help as much as we can including bridging the gap between investors and inventors as well as between inventors/developers seeking to complement their technologies with supporting ones such as a bridge we’ve created between an English fuel cell and an American purehydrogen generator.
Thus Water4Gas has emerged and evolved in one year from a small homebased business to become a global junction for waterfuel technologies inspiration and leadership.
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About the writer:nbsp;nbsp;Amir M is a freeagent writer smallbusiness championmarketing catalyst who’s focused on creating total health *and* artistic professional and financial freedom.