High fuel prices are an everyday concern now. We all would like to squeeze every mile we can get out of each gallon of fuel. The predominant question is how do we do it? Here are a few tips to help accomplish that. First, the tires are very important, both inflation pressures and ensuring the…

It is a known fact that the number one issue with tire safety is maintaining correct tire pressures. That also happens to be the #1 contributing factor to maximizing fuel economy.  A new issue relating to tires has come to light recently, aged (old) tires are being sold daily in the United States.  These aged…

Everyone knows that using your seatbelt saves lives.  Laws say you must wear your seatbelt while in a moving vehicle.  Yet many people refuse or simply forget to use them. When I was just starting out driving in the mid 70’s I never used one, even after attending traffic school to get points for traffic…

Many cars and trucks have solid windows and windshields with a black edge and black dots near the black edge that get smaller in size as they move away from the edge. Did you ever wonder why the black edge and the black dots are there? The explanation is pretty simple and logical. Windshields and…