Myth: To save money during the warmer summer months, you should try to limit driving to early morning or later at night.

Fact: If your car is in good condition, it doesn’t matter what time of the day you drive.

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Well, that all depends on the coefficient of drag of the automobile, the wind resistance as far as type as tread on the tires, and the rolling resistance of the tires combined with the axle ratio, and the horsepower and torque output of the engine. If you have all of those factors, and you can do the equation then what you come up with is a determination as to whether you drive at high noon or midnight. That can save you a lot of fuel in the long run.

Just kidding folks! It really doesn’t matter. If you’re car is in good shape you can drive it any part of the day, hot, cold, doesn’t make any difference.

This time of year can bring some extreme weather, including strong storms with high winds. What if you get caught driving in one of these storms? Think driving next to a large tractor trailer in high winds is the safest place to be? You might want to think again.

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Well whenever you’re driving in high winds, number 1, you want to pay close attention to everything around you and be prepared for a gust of wind to move your vehicle across the road, so you have to be prepared for that and be ready to react. But one of the big mistakes that a lot of people make is they will ride along beside a tractor trailer, or a trailer that is being towed or something like that, a bus even. Well, the thing that you may not realize is that is a very dangerous place to be because a large vehicle has a lot of wind surface and that means that a really strong gust of wind can cause that tractor trailer to flip over, and if you’re beside it, it could be right on top of you. So stay out in the open.

What are the signs that my car might have pothole damage?

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Well, the things that you would feel or see, of course physical damage you could look at the tire you could look at the wheel and so on. You would also want to raise the car up in the air and look at the suspension components and steering components, but what are you going to feel? Well, the steering wheel may be off center or you may have a shake or a shimmy at a particular speed. Anything at all that changes in the way the car drives, rides, handles, anything like that after a severe impact with a pothole, means you better get it into a shop and get it checked out right away.

If you’re lucky enough to have a collectible car you only drive in warm weather, here’s how to properly take it out of winter storage.

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Alright, you stored your collectible car for the winter. Now you want to take it out and drive it. The weather is getting nice and it’s that time. So, what do you do? Well, the first thing that you do is to check all of the fluids, check the pressure in the tires because tires lose pressure over time, that’s a natural thing. Then, you want to start it up. Don’t rev the engine or anything like that, just start it up, let it idle for 15 or 20 minutes, then drive it gently until it reaches normal temperature. And if you’ve prepped it properly back in the fall, that’s all you have to do.

Cold starting a car used to be a complex process, but these days it’s a lot more simple.

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Well, starting a cold engine used to be a complex process of depressing the accelerator for two seconds and releasing it, turning the key, and a whole bunch of different things like that. Then, if it didn’t start, you had to hold it to the floor and crank the engine. Well, all of that stuff is gone. See, fuel delivery in the engine compartment now is controlled 100 percent by the car’s computer and no matter what you do with the accelerator pedal inside the car or anything it really isn’t going to have much effect on the way the car starts. So, cold starting these days — get in the car, put your foot on the brake, turn the key, and it starts. That’s all there is to it.