Beaterofacar

The key to keeping a car running through 100,000+ miles is maintenance.  Both our vehicles have over 120,000 miles.

1. Change the oil and air filter per manufacturer recommendations
2. Replace your timing chain per manufacturer recommendations
3. Flush your coolant every 2 years
4. Check your belts and hoses every oil change
5. Check you tire pressure every fill up
6. Replace your spark plugs every 2 years or so
7. Hose down the underneath of your car if you live in an area where salt is used

In addition to standard fuel costs, Edmunds.com looked at the purchase price; the rate of depreciation; the cost of insurance and more in making its selections.

1. Chevy Aveo
2. Hyundai Accent
3. Honda Fit
4. Toyota Yaris
5. Honda Civic
6. Nissan Versa
7. Kia Rio
8. Mazda 3
9. Toyota Corolla
10. Honda Civic Hybrid

Since just about everyone drives and has a cell phone, you may want to explore these.

Aged Tires - A Driving Hazard?

Frequent Mobile Phone Use Boosts Tumor Risk by 50%

Use this site to track all recalls!

Walkable

You can use http://www.walkscore.com/ to find walkable places to live. Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc. Walk Score measures how easy it is to live a car-lite lifestyle! 

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The Classic is street legal for surface streets 35 MPH or less. The Sunray and Kudo vehicles can be made street legal. They come with VIN#’s. They do recommend you check with your state and community regarding the laws in your area.

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1. Fill up your car or truck in the morning when the temperature is still cool.   All service stations have their storag
   

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   e tanks buried below ground; and the colder the ground, the denser the gasoline. When it gets warmer gasoline expands, so if you're filling up in the afternoon or in the evening, what should be a gallon is not exactly a gallon. 
2. Fill up when your gas tank is half-full, because the more gas you have in your tank the less air there is and gasoline evaporates rapidly, especially when it's warm.
3. If you look at the trigger you'll see that it has three delivery settings: slow, medium and high.  You should be pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapors created while you are pumping. Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as a return path for vapor recovery from gas that already has been metered.  If you are pumping at the high setting, the agitated gasoline contains more vapor, which is being sucked back into the underground tank, so you're getting less gas for your money

• Use salvage yards for replacement parts

  

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• Only buy a car if your old car becomes unsafe to drive and isn't easily fixable, or the cost of the repairs is more than 75% of the cost of buying the same car in running condition
• Auto Emergency Kit: yellow/orange umbrella, flashlight, & duct tape - tape the flashlight so that it is attached to the umbrella shaft and pointing up - this turns the entire umbrella into a giant, lighted "traffic cone"
• Make Your Car Last 250,000 Miles