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Despite historic high gas prices, peak summer getaway season is underway, so it’s time to get your car ready before you start your road trip. These common sense car care tips can help prevent costly breakdowns and even accidents. The AAA expects to rescue 7 million American drivers this summer, mostly for dead batteries and
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The peak summer driving season is getting underway, which often means clogged roads and traffic jams. Road rage is a driving danger, along with drunk driving and distracted driving such as texting while driving. These tips will help you avoid aggressive drivers, or become one yourself.
It’s a spring thing. April showers bring May flowers. And potholes. Damage to your vehicle from banging into a road crater can cost you repair bills from an average $300 to more than $1,000. These tips from Michelin will help you ride safe and save yourself from the frustration and cost of pothole repairs, or
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Gas prices are up again to their highest level in history, so it’s more important than ever to save money at the gas pump. You can do that if you tune up, slow down and lighten up. These tips won’t cost you anything, but will save you lots.
The holiday driving season now underway means clogged roads and traffic jams, when road rage becomes a driving danger, along with drunk driving and such distracted driving as texting while driving. All of us have gotten frustrated behind the wheel at some point in our lives, and maybe even acted out by doing something stupid,
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The AAA expects this to be the busiest Thanksgiving Holiday travel week since 2005, with more than 2.5 million people driving, flying, taking the train, or even a cruise ship. With more than one million of us flying to grandma’s house, or to escape a family reunion, travelers who take to the sky should allow
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Synthetic or regular? Save money or get better performance? Save money or save the planet? Making an informed choice about oil changes just got easier, thanks to new research by AAA on the quality of engine oil. AAA found that synthetic oil outperformed conventional oil by an average of nearly 50 percent. That translates to
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