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Fall is upon us really soon and our great sunny weather with hot tempertures and great visability will be replaced with rainy cold days with dark and low visibility conditions. This is when we must change our driving habits and adjust to the fall and winter driving style and leave more room between us and other cars in front of us.  We can only control so much while driving on the streets so taking extra precautions is always a great thing. By precautions I mean making sure your car is in good standing order for the fall and winter weather.

Things to check on your car for night time driving would be making sure your lights are all working including headlights, backup lights and especially brake lights. Changing light bulbs is usually quite easy and replacement bulbs can be bought at all auto parts stores for just a few dollars. With rain and snow hitting the streets you will want to make sure your tires are properly inflated to 32-34psi and that the tread is still sufficient enough to keep you from hydroplaning. If you can afford it a pair of snow tires is always a good thing and having all four is even better. Swapping summer tires with mags to steel rims with snow tires gives you more grip and saves the nice finish on your expensive aluminum or chrome wheels.

Wipers should be replaced once a year before the start of fall as this is when they will be used the most and give you the best visibility in heavy rain. Your wipers rubber insert tends to crack and degrade with extreme heat conditions during the summer so replacement is crucial. Some drivers forget this and use their wipers for 2 to 3 years till their visibity is so poor that they finally have no choice but replace them, but really why wait so long for such an important piece of your car during rainy season. Topping up our windshield wiper fluid is a good thing too as I know many drivers go through this very fast. Windshild wiper fluid is reasonibly cheap and usually costs less then $5 for a 4 liter bottle at most parts stores but don’t wait till you run out as gas stations charge a lot more. You can use a glass cleaner like windex to clean your windows from the inside so when they do fog up they are easier to see through until you defog them with your heater system.  

Under the hood you want to check things like engine oil, tranny oil if you have a automatic tranny, brake fluid, power steering fluid, and clutch fluid. If you haven’t replaced your radiator coolant in the last 3 years now is a good time to do it. Old fluid will cause premature water pump failure, poor cooling and will not hold up as well under sub zero tempertures. Depending on the area that you live make sure your antifreeze to water ratio is proper to give you the best cooling  and so it doesn’t freeze. Usually it’s a 50/50 mix or in really cold places 70% antifreeze and 30% water will keep it from freezing. 100% antifreeze is not really recommended as this will severely corrode your water pump, block and head.

During fall and winter try to keep your gas gauge above the 1/4 mark as running out of gas in the middle of a snow storm or a torrential down poor is not a happy experience. Traffic tends to be a lot more congested with lots more waiting and idling so having that gas gauge above the 1/4 mark will keep you at ease and less stressed.

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1993 Honda Civic Blog is having it’s first contest and giving away 7500 EntreCard Credits. The rules are very simple and prizes are definitely worth it, so start acquiring tickets as soon as you can.

1st Prize is 5000 EntreCard Credits

2nd Prize is 2000 EntreCard Credits

3rd Prize is 500 EntreCard Credits

You can earn 1 ticket for every comment you leave on any of my posts with a maximum of 15 total comments.

Below are ways to collect more tickets:

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Once you have earned your tickets leave me a comment on this post and let me know how many tickets you have earned and also include your UserID used for StumbleUpon, Digg and Technorati so I can double check this.

Contest runs from Aug 28th to September 30th, 2008.  Winners will be drawn and announced shortly thereafter.

Although I have no intention of doing so, I reserve the right to make changes to the contest at any time.

1993 Honda Civic Contest Update to all Participants *** PLEASE READ ***

Due to the New Rules Set Forward Sept 29, 08 By Entrecard.com the payment to all winners will be paid out in full but will take longer.

Entrecard has limited a maximum transfer of 1000 credits per week so the payment process will take longer.

(Credit transfer limits: Members are allowed to make a maximum of 14 credit transfers a week, up to a maximum of 1,000 credits, whichever comes first. This means you can still run contests where you give credits away for free, and under 1k per week.)

Here is the payout schedule

1st Prize winner 5000 Credits Total Prize

1000 Credits Paid Week 1
1000 Credits Paid Week 4
1000 Credits Paid Week 6
1000 Credits Paid Week 7
1000 Credits Paid Week 8

2nd Prize Winner 2000 Credits Total Prize

1000 Credits Paid Week 2
1000 Credits Paid Week 5

3rd Prize Winner 500 Credits Total Prize

500 Credits Paid Week 3

The reason for this payment schedule is so everyone receives some sort of payment in 3 weeks, and there after the remaining payout is distributed between 1st prize and 2nd prize winners. Now since I have to sift through all the winner comments, diggs and other ways they submitted tickets the winners will be named by the weekend of October 5 or sooner depending how fast I can tally up the tickets and pick out the 3 winners.

Good Luck to everyone that has participated in this contest.

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Last night I went to see the late show of Death Race and I really enjoyed it, it was a good movie and can’t wait to see it again on Blueray. There was lots of fast paced action, hot chicks and tones of flying bullets, Jason Statham and Tyrese Gibson are the two main racers and they put on a great show.

Just before the movie started they showed a teaser for the new Fast and Furiuos 4. Paul Walker and Vin Diesel are back so this one should be another great hit, release date is set for June 5, 08

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What Does Jodie Foster and a Honda Civic Have in Common? A great car commercial.

Check out the retro video below.

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I’ve been driving the same Honda Civic Hatch for over a year now and have modified everything from suspension to headlights to a complete engine swap, and the more work I do on it the more I enjoy driving it. My drive to work is about 20km each way and the route that I take gives me lots of room for cruising. This in no doubt gives me a chance to be one with the car and feel the road thru it. When I drive it, it’s like I am part of the car and we are one entity. Now this might sound weird for some but for those that feel the same way know that this zone exists, the problem is that most of us are too busy with our lives and forget how to enjoy the ride. In my case for instance when I am in this zone and some crazy person cuts me off I react with no delay and automatically maneuver the car to avoid this situation and soon after I continue driving along enjoying the ride.

When I was really small I always wondered what it would feel like to be in a car and instead of using brute force to move it all I would have to do is push a pedal, and off I go. Now I believe that we take the modern automobile for granted because literally that’s all we do, we sit in it, push a pedal and control its direction with a steering wheel, there is very little human force needed.

But getting back to my Honda Civic Hatch, it’s in no doubt a great stress reliever because when I drive it mellows me out. So next time you add that new turbo or install those gauges or even wash your Civic, remember you car is only as good as the enjoyment you get out of it.

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Today I was looking into more turbo installation info and found another great turbo installation writeup that covers everything from start to finish. The more research you do before installing your turbo the better it is so check out this install and get some pointers. Click Here for the link to the Complete How To Turbocharge Your Honda Install.

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