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1. Performance Enhancers For Your Car Are you a tuner? A true tuner that is…or, are you a rice boy? Yeah, you know what I mean. Serious tuners bring out the power in their cars while rice boys slap on every imaginable part to make their car look like a racer when in fact they are not.... (posted by Matthew C Keegan 6 years 86 days ago.)

2. Catalytic Converter Hazards! Your catalytic converter can be hazardous to your health...literally! Take care of your car and your catalytic converter will do what it is supposed to do: reduce pollution. Government auto emissions control legislation mandates that virtually all... (posted by Matthew C Keegan 6 years 86 days ago.)

3. Bug Protection For Your Car Splat! There goes your clean windshield. In moments, your car is peppered with finish ruining bug juice. What to do? These two handy accessories can help you keep the bug population at bay. Here in the southern U.S., we residents are used to a bug... (posted by Matthew C Keegan 6 years 86 days ago.)

4. Counterfeit Auto Parts: A Global Epidemic That replacement auto part you are planning to install or have installed on your vehicle may be a counterfeit. Government officials are telling us that the fake parts industry is costing Americans billions of dollars per year. Counterfeit auto... (posted by Matthew C Keegan 6 years 87 days ago.)

5. Toyota: The New Number One? General Motors is number one, but Toyota is gaining. Who will be the winner by the end of this year? For the past several months news reports have been focusing on the declining fortunes of the world’s largest automaker, General Motors, as well as... (posted by Matthew C Keegan 6 years 88 days ago.)

6. World Auto Production Forecast So, do you rely on a crystal ball to predict the future? A lot of good that will do you. Change is coming in the way cars are built, marketed, and sold. Are you ready? Predicting the future is a risky proposition often filled with guesstimates and... (posted by Matthew C Keegan 6 years 89 days ago.)

7. Affordable Cars Priced From Under $15K Are you looking for a new car? If you are, there are several models available to you for under $15,000. Twelve are mentioned here thirteen if you include the Nissan Versa to be released later this summer. Increased competition has made this a... (posted by Matthew C Keegan 6 years 90 days ago.)

8. GM: Solutions For Effective Change I, like so many people who have been following General Motors’ fortunes for some time, am wondering what the company’s long term plan of action is in the face of historic losses, plant closings, and unrelenting and widening competition. No, I am... (posted by Matthew C Keegan 6 years 90 days ago.)

9. Asian Cars: Auto Manufacturers to Watch The Asian automobile manufacturing market is much broader than many American consumers understand it to be. Beyond Honda, Hyundai, Toyota, and other household names there are quite a few automakers that are growing in size and respectability in... (posted by Matthew C Keegan 6 years 93 days ago.)

10. You Can Tune Your Car For Maximum Performance! Are you satisfied with your performance? Your car's performance, that is? If you are not or if you have wondered how you can crank more power out of your engine, then I have some good news for you: you can do it with an engine tuning programmer.... (posted by Matthew C Keegan 6 years 107 days ago.)

11. You Can Change Your Car's Timing Belt So, how is your car's timing belt doing? Have you changed it lately? If, ever? If not, you must make certain that the timing belt hasn’t been driven too many miles or you could be driving on borrowed time. Typically, a timing belt will last... (posted by Matthew C Keegan 6 years 109 days ago.)

12. Diesel Powered Cars: Coming At You! The number of diesel powered cars on North American highways has been dropping steadily ever since their peak in the mid 1980s. For many motorists, diesel engines conjure up images of pollution, poor power, and unreliability. However, one... (posted by Matthew C Keegan 6 years 109 days ago.)

13. Power Steering Pump Failure…or is it the Steering Rack? Has your car’s power steering suddenly quit working? If so, it could be that your power steering pump has failed. The unit itself may be shot or it could be a loss of steering fluid through a bad hose that is causing the problem. Regardless, you... (posted by Matthew C Keegan 6 years 125 days ago.)

14. You Can Replace Your Car's EGR Valve Located smack dab on your car’s intake manifold, an EGR [Exhaust Gas Recirculation] valve functions by sending exhaust gas back into the combustion chamber as “exhausted air” is much hotter than intake air. By bringing warmer gas into the... (posted by Matthew C Keegan 6 years 125 days ago.)

15. Ball Joints and Your Car's Suspension System An important part of your car’s suspension system is its ball joints. Made of extra tough steel, ball joints act as the pivot point between two parts: the suspension and your car’s tires. Ball joints help support your car’s weight and, as is the... (posted by Matthew C Keegan 6 years 128 days ago.)