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This Winter, Don’t Get Your Car Stuck Before It Gets Started
Notes From The Road
Donate, Scrap, or Sell
By Wayne Scraba/autoMedia.com
What Should You Do With a Worthless Car? - We don’t know about you, but having a rotting, worthless car sitting on your property is annoying, if not a plain pain. Not only is it an eyesore, plenty of your neighbors don’t appreciate it, and plenty of jurisdictions tend to agree. That’s why junk car by-laws have become so common. In some cases, if you don’t do something with the car, the city or municipality you live in will.
Most people think that wheel alignment is best left to the professionals. This is true in many respects, but some alignment specs are easy to check yourself, and toe is one aspect of alignment that can be checked at home. This can come in handy after replacing steering or suspension components so that the vehicle won't be wildly out of adjustment for the trip to the alignment shop, or at the very least provide a better understanding of the alignment process.
We receive many questions about zinc levels in today's motor oils from the owners of racing or high-performance vehicles. See our answer to this question in our regular feature, Ask Mobil, and a table for comparing the phosphorous levels in Mobil 1.
Nine volunteers from the Drive Around the World Expedition began a 16-month intercontinental journey on November 1, 2003, to raise funds to help cure Parkinson’s disease. The LONGITUDE expedition traveled 28,000 miles, almost two-thirds of its 41,000-mile journey, before changing the engine oil. Their Land Rovers were using Mobil 1. Read more ...
