When calculating the price of your next vehicle, you have a wide range of fees that you must include in your budget. Along with insurance and licensing fees, you have to include the various fees that are added to the cost of the vehicle at the dealership. These fees include the following: Freight and transportation Usually the most significant fee, ...
Read More »Is that car safe or not?
Safety is important in everything, especially when buying a car. Of course, we tend to focus first on the style, color, price and fuel economy ratings, but safety should be at the heart of our concerns when purchasing a new or pre-owned vehicle. If you want to know if a given vehicle is safe or not, here are a few ...
Read More »Fuel savers: don’t fall for the marketing
The increase in the price of fuel in recent years caused a proliferation in the number of so-called fuel savers on the market. These products promise to help reduce fuel consumption simply by adding them to your vehicle’s fuel. Sold in liquid or solid form, or sometimes as a device you attach to your engine or other important mechanical component, ...
Read More »ADVICE: How can you improve the resale value of your vehicle?
We all want to get the best resale value for our vehicle, it’s perfectly normal. That said, we all also know that a new vehicle starts to depreciate as soon as it leaves the showroom. Moreover, there are a lot of options available to vehicle buyers in the pre-owned model market, and our vehicle will have to face some fierce ...
Read More »Easy safety tips every car owner should know
When it comes to safety, modern cars do a lot to protect us. There are a host of active and passive safety systems that are always ready to either prevent an accident, or shield the driver and the passengers if a crash is unavoidable. That said, there are other, more subtle safety tips that are easy to put into action ...
Read More »ADVICE: What to do in the event of a flat tire?
Nobody likes to have a flat tire. Some are luckier than others and have managed to avoid the scenario all their lives while others have been forced to replace their tire on the side of the road several times. Often in the rain when it’s cold out. What is certain is that a flat tire never occurs at the right ...
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