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Running Your Car On Vegetable Oil?
Whenever trends raise their heads in modern society, there’s always a group of outliers who want to take that new practice to the limit. The rise of...
Car Care (6)
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Should You Clean Your Car's Engine?
At first glance, that sounds like a loaded question. Kind of like “should I eat a balanced diet” or “should I get enough exercise”? I mean, what’s...
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Self-Driving Cars and Better Gas Mileage
Within the next ten years, analysts project a significant chunk of the new cars on the road will be "self-driving" vehicles, also called autonomous...
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How do you know when a car needs an oil change?
To some extent, car maintenance is like cooking. If you want to cook, one approach you can take is to grab a recipe and follow the directions as...
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Sparkless Gas Engines: The Line Between Gas and Diesel Is Getting Blurry
Change is coming and it could be rather revolutionary. We’re talking about gas-powered engines and the reports of a new technology that could...
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Fuel Supplements: What's In A Name?
There’s lot of power in a name, in what you call something or in how you classify something. If you associate a given name with something good or...
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The Low Down on Gas Treatments for Cars
Let’s say you’re in a local auto parts store or even your local Walmart. Chances are that store has a shelf lined with bottles of gas treatment....
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Can A Bad Exhaust Cause Rough Idle?
The first question is, can an exhaust leak cause a rough idle? When you have a rough idle situation and it's being attributed to an exhaust leak, it...
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How to know if you've got engine deposits
Automotive research has consistently shown that not having enough detergency in your gasoline leads to engine deposits that result in all kinds of...
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Detergents in gasoline can make a big difference to your car
It wasn’t until 1996 that detergents started being required in gasoline. Before that time, you had a lot more engine deposits because the gasoline...