Periodic Engineering Maintenance

It must be obeyed by all users of the car is service and regular maintenance. This becomes very important thing because the engine system also has its own mechanisms which also require such refreshment of fresh air, water, lubricants and also cleanliness.

In a routine service there are some special notes to consider: water filters, gas filters, and oil combustion chamber. 4 it is forbidden to be forgotten. Water filters are very important when it serves to filter the air quality which will be mixed with gasoline in the combustion chamber. It is like nostrils and our lungs. Fuel filter too. We never know the true quality of the fuel we buy. If there is dirt inside, then the micro holes in the carburetor / injection will be disrupted. While the oil is very active role in the "launch" any mechanical movement of the metal in the engine.

Traffic hours, poor quality fuel, the temperature of the earth and our negligence in the care of the car are some important factors that can accelerate damage to the engine. In case of jams, engine load becomes very heavy considering the cooling of the air moving system is not obtained even when there are electric fans for it. This is compounded with the temperature around the machine becomes very hot, use air conditioners and other electrical systems in cars that could cause the water in the radiator system heat and evaporate faster. Obviously this will lead to over-heat which causes engine knocking / jammed.

To reduce the burden on the performance of car engines, can be routinely diringanan by adding water to the radiator and also the selection of appropriate and high quality oil. Both of these things become very important because oil and water is the last defense of the machine when there is heavy load.

Trend Car 2012 is SUV

Think cutting-edge electric vehicles like the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf are hard to get? That’s nothing compared to the challenge of buying a three-year-old full-size SUV.

That’s because while there is still plenty of demand for big SUVs -- Chevy sells about 5,000 new Suburbans and 8,000 Tahoes every month -- there will soon be virtually no supply of late-model used ones.

New big-SUV sales are percolating along now, but that wasn’t the case three years ago, when the aftershocks of the 2008 financial meltdown were still reverberating around the industry and there was no loan money available to those remaining customers who still wanted to spend $40,000 or $50,000 on an SUV.

The result: today there are no three-year-old SUVs because three years ago there weren’t any new ones. It's sort of the automotive equivalent of the baby bust faced by countries like Japan that find themselves short of able-bodied workers decades after childbirth rates flatlined.

According to the National Automobile Dealers Association, in 2010 the normal number of SUVs returning to dealers from leases every month was between 2,500 and 2,750 nationwide, giving shoppers ample selection.

“This made them easy to find and kept pricing reasonable,” observed Jake Moore, general manager of Country Chevrolet, in Warrenton, Va.

Last month, the number of SUVs returning from lease was fewer than 200. In the whole country. Chopping the supply of used vehicles to less than a tenth the normal volume is going to give used Tahoe shoppers a real headache.

“This will cause a severe shortage of used SUVs for the used car market, which in turn should drive up prices,” Moore said. “I think we will feel the impact of this in late January due to the time it takes to process, sell and market the lease turn-ins.”

So, about the time the first big blizzard of the season convinces drivers that they need an affordable used 4x4, there won’t be any to be had. With a shortage of used SUVs and high prices on the few that are available, many shoppers will decide to buy new ones, giving the domestic car makers a sales boost for a few years.

Moore said his dealership has stocked up on used SUVs in anticipation of the bust, but with a finite number of vehicles available, not all dealers can do the same thing, and they will eventually run out anyway.

“As far out as April of 2014, the return volume for big SUVs is only going to be around 500 a month,” Moore said.

That’s a long time to wait to buy a used SUV, so shoppers who are in the market for one should act quickly or start considering buying new. And if you have a three-year old SUV, in a couple months your current ride will be worth its weight in, well, if not gold, at least copper. That will put you in position to upgrade to a new one with a nice trade-in.

Toyota may trim 2012 production target

TOKYO (Reuters) Toyota Motor Corp. is expected to produce fewer vehicles next year than it had initially told its suppliers to expect, due to weakening demand in Europe and elsewhere, the Nikkei business daily reported today without quoting sources.

The new target of 8.65 million units would still set a new record -- and be slightly higher than its yearly production record of 8.53 million vehicles set in 2007. It would be about 20 percent more than the automaker's expected output this year, the newspaper reported.

But the company had, in August, told its suppliers to expect worldwide output of up to 8.9 million units next year, according to the daily.

The automaker is expected to finalize its 2012 production plans and notify major parts suppliers as early as next week, the Nikkei said.

For the current year, it had expected to produce 7.7 million vehicles, but is likely to manufacture only about 7 million due to problems caused by the Tsunami in Japan and the floods in Thailand earlier this year, the daily reported.

The next year will also see new plants come into production in China in the first half and in Brazil in the second half to meet growing demand from Asia and South America, Nikkei said.

Toyota will also come up with entry-level cars priced at around 1 million yen ($12,900) to target first-time buyers in emerging countries and raise its market share in such markets from around 8 percent to 10 percent, the paper added.

It intends to maintain its Japanese production at 3 million units as a cut in the Japanese automobile tonnage tax and a reinstatement of eco-car subsidies is likely to help domestic sales, the newspaper reported.