Save With Easy Auto Maintenance Tips!
What do we all want while driving? To provide for our families, loved ones, and what have you. How do you accomplish this? There are a whole slew of roads to travel, but one main ingredient is a family car that is always 100% reliable. And if driving creates you running errands faster, to save money on gas, and decreasing air pollution, you win twice. Your 1993 Ford Tempo or whichever car, truck, van, or boat you drive needs to be performingat top capacity.
The most important thing you can do for your car is make regular auto maintenance check-ups, service all the automotive liquids. Oh, by the way, be sure to check your car’s liquids every 2 weeks. That means your oil, coolant, power steering fluid, and transmission liquids. Make checking your tires a constant too. My ex-girlfriend recently called me up and cried that one of her tires exploded driving under a freeway. Yikes. Also, don’t forget to maintain a proper fuel tank level according to your particular car’s engine (see car owner manual). A car owner manual is like the bible of your vehicle. If you don’t already have one, get one. You’ll wish you had one if your car breaks down in the desert.
Your car engine will thank you with better performance and quicker reaction times, which is an essential part of keeping you and your family and friends safe on the road. Make yourself aware of this info. It may save the life of your engine one day. It will save you money on gas and auto maintenance.
Choose the right fuel. Your vehicle is designed to take regular unleaded fuel, which will have this symbol (87) on the pump at the gas station. The 87 symbol refers to the level of octane in the fuel. Using lower grade of fuel will jack up your car engine and will cause heavy knocking, which could easily damage your engine. I drive a Ford Tempo, and my car owner manual says to use the 87 grade of gas.
Higher grade fuels will protect your fuel system from rusting and protect against fuel lock in the fuel system (causes engine to hesitate/stall and hard to restart). In addition, it will minimize fuel deposits in fuel injection system, and prevent your engine from knocking/pinging.
Higher grade fuels will also prevent the fuel system from “gumming up” when not run for long periods of time, not to mention help your, Ford Tempo perhaps, start more easily in winter while assisting in help the prevention of freezing fuel lines.
Tips to increase gas mileage include not driving at life-threatening highway speeds can dramatically lower your fuel economy. It maybe fun, but it’s the car that you don’t see that will do the most damage. Gradually increasing your speed will save you precious fuel. And the way gas prices have been, it is nice not having to cram all your money into your gas tank. Extended idling of your engine will lower your miles per gallon.
I hope theses tips allow you to spend more time with your family and friends. As well as save money on gas, and auto maintenance. Enjoy!
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Jeremy is the owner/developer of The Ford Tempo Center. It’s the 1 stop auto shop for all your D.I.Y. Ford Tempo automotive needs. To browse car parts, auto accessories, articles, FAQ, or save cash using car tips and secrets, view the above link.
By Doofusinater, November 14, 2009 @ 6:19 am
@kobyc1 what the fuck are we talkin bout?
By kobyc1, November 14, 2009 @ 6:41 am
whatta ya mean?
By pita4670, November 14, 2009 @ 6:58 am
gallon zip lock bags filled with ice and a small hole put in the side of the bag and there you have a automatic drip system it works for me
By afreshpath_admin, November 14, 2009 @ 7:20 am
It's going to be darn hard to "de-focus" too much using a digital camera while keeping the main subject in sharp focus. The smaller the sensor, the greater depth of field you will have. Generally speaking, the smaller the camera, the smaller the sensor. Your Z740 has the smaller of the two more common sensors out there – 1/2.5". Most of the pictures you take with your camera are quite sharp from near to far distances and there is a reason for that which I will explain.
While we speak in terms of the 35 mm equivalency of digital lenses, don't forget that the digital sensors are usually smaller than a full-format 35 mm frame. Most of the more popular point and shoot cameras have the smaller sensors. It's only about 5 mm wide and 4 mm high. The lens on required to cover that angle of view on your camera is an ACTUAL 6-63 mm zoom lens. At these focal lengths, the background is going to almost always be in pretty sharp focus.
In other words, if you WANT to defocus the background, you are going to have to work pretty hard at it. You would have to zoom to the longer end of the lens and set the aperture open as wide as it will go, if your camera even allows you to control the aperture, and get pretty close to your main subject while having the background a fair distance away.
The bigger the sensor, the easier it will be to achieve pleasing bokeh. This means moving to a dSLR, which all have sensors about 20 times bigger than the typical P&S digicam. If you want to really go for brokeh (very bad pun intended), you can get a Canon 5D and you will get exactly the same effect you are accustomed to in a 35 mm camera, since the sensor is the same size as 35 mm film.
You can see some example of what is rather easily attainable with a DSLR at http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/tags/bokeh/ Read the captions, though, because a couple of these are done with point and shoot cameras. Study the set-up to see how I did this. It's only doing exactly as I said in my answer above. If you like this effect, I agree with Anotoni that you are probably ready to move up to an SLR.
Wikipedia does pretty well on the subject of depth of field. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field
See also: http://www.photo.net/learn/optics/dofdigital/
By Eddie, November 14, 2009 @ 9:43 am
eeeh i looked and couldnt find any :/
By OmletLol, November 14, 2009 @ 3:17 pm
Lol awesome game
By kellymm83, November 15, 2009 @ 9:40 am
Break the game
By SAINTintheCITY, November 15, 2009 @ 11:52 am
dude if its auto then ur not drafted rit
By dmarie_333, November 16, 2009 @ 1:53 am
Hire the best and treat EVERYONE including your employees like they are the best. When your customer see what a good atmosphere is in your business and you are providing them with the best service they cant help but tell their friends and family.
By ~*Latina Bonita*~, November 17, 2009 @ 2:36 am
Yes the game is old, but VERY fun. I still have the first copy of it I bought.
But yea, there is one on the first Island called "The Pig Pen".
Located North East. Near Jefferson, I think. (Not too hard to find.)
There is one on the 2nd Island WAY up north, near the bridge that leads to the 3rd Island.
Then there is one on the 3rd Island (Kinda hard to find) You gotta find the desert, and then travel along a single road, that leads to a strip club thats in the middle of no where.
What I like to do is get the bombs you can throw and they stick to anything Including people. Then, after I throw them all, I step back and blow everything up. If I dont do that, I just goof around, ramping off stuff, shooting people.
FAVORITE thing to do is to get into an airplane, fly up really high over the city, and then sky dive back to the ground. But, instead of using the parachute I like to try and hit someone when I hit the ground. LOL.
Its a fun game, they should make another San andreas game.
By bradley, November 17, 2009 @ 8:52 am
this one should help.
good luck.
By Zaiya M, November 17, 2009 @ 3:37 pm
I have the same car. Mine has the Nav system. I can't recall the exact steps, but if you play around with settings through display you can adjust it down or make it turn off when you turn off the car. Mine is set for 15 seconds I believe. Kinda nice when you come into a dark garage at night to have the lights stay on until you find the door to the house.