It’s important that you regularly check your vehicle’s battery system. When the odometer turns over the chances are the car’s original battery will not be in place. This is because like everything else car batteries also have definite shelf life. No amount of care or maintenance can reverse the effects of chemicals on metal. In the future someday, it’s certain the battery of your vehicle must be replaced.
Car covers become an extremely essential accessory, if one’s car is an antique. With such cars, covering the various parts of the car is as important as covering the car itself.
The Rolling Junkyard: This person drives a 1920 something or other. It’s usually held together with duct tape and garbage bags. This car constantly drops its parts everywhere. Have you ever seen old mufflers, hubcaps or car junk yard parts lying in the road? They came from the rolling junkyard.
The Best Day, Time and Place: Never have garage sales over holiday weekends or on weekdays. Saturdays are the preferred day and the earlier you start, the better. Expect savvy buyers to arrive extremely early and offer less for large items hoping to get a bargain. Make sure the area of your sale is clean and that your items are well organized. If it is a yard sale, mow that grass the day before and pick up that animal poop. Have a rain date available in case of a downpour. Winter or rainy season sales are never a good idea. Summer is sale season.
Spindle: There are some names of sell used car you’ve probably heard of before, but in a different context! A spindle is a perfect example. You may have heard of spindles in terms of spinning thread, but your car has them as well! In your car, spindles reside in the suspension system and help to hold your wheels in place.
Believe it or not, you might be able to sell your used tires. If they are in usable shape, but simply need a patch, a junkyard might be willing to buy them from you in order to repair and then resell them. In fact, you can actually make quite a bit of money selling used tires to the right junkyard if you shop around to find one that will pay a decent price. Some people have used this to bring in a secondary income for their families, placing ads in the local papers collecting other people’s used tires for free, and then reselling them to a local junkyard.
Obviously your best option for a quality repair job is your authorized dealer. The dealer will have the parts that you need manufactured by the right company. They will serve you quickly and efficiently because, after all, they want your business in the future when you want to trade that luxury car in for another one. So they will treat you right because of their vested interest in you. However, they will cost more than the mechanic down the street.
A mile out town just before the intersection of US 41 another friend lived who stayed in about as much trouble as I did. We had a fort built across the field behind his house. There was a dirt road that leads to the field and as it left the main road it had a dirt bank on each side close to the dirt road. I was spinning in the mud and had everyone jump out and push. Well the back doors on the Plymouth opened to the front of the car and one of the boys left the door open while they were pushing. I got some traction and took off, catching the open door in the bank and tearing it off. Now I had to drive around with a missing back door. And two odd color finders that I had replaced earlier from the junk yard. My car was beginning to look pretty sad.