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If you own a BMW, Buick, Chevrolet, GMC, Honda, Hyundai, Infiniti, Jeep, Porsche, Subaru, Toyota or Volvo then your car may be subject to a recall.
Certain units of the following vehicle models are under recall by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to address these potential issues:
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If you own an Acura, Dodge, Ford, Honda, Infiniti, Nissan, Porsche, Subaru or Toyota then your car may be subject to a recall.
Certain units of the following vehicle models are under recall by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to address these potential issues:
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2012 Volkswagen Jetta Engine Bay
One of the effects of leasing is I might never have to open the hood. But after two months of temptation I gave in and opened it. I felt a bit like Jacque Cousteau embarking on a new exploratory dive. Sure, it’s just an engine (though uncommon in that it has 5 cylinders), but every car is different and it’s interesting to see the different approaches taken by various companies at different price points. Continue reading
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Here’s an interesting car that you don’t hear about much though it is still in production. The C30, available only as a 3 door hatchback, was first launched in the U.S. for the 2008 model year, sharing its underpinnings with the Ford Focus and Mazda3. Continue reading
Last Friday it rained heavily as I drove the Jetta. When the windows began fogging up I turned the dial to defog and sure enough, the windshield began to clear up. However, the side windows hardly did so. Continue reading
I had already replaced at least four hubcaps on our own 2004 Toyota Corolla. Then I started noticing an interesting phenomenon. Is it me or do 2003-2008 Corollas seem to have a tendency to lose their wheel covers with surprising regularity?
Duct tape. It always comes down to including duct tape in any roadside emergency tool kit. Scotty also has a number of other good suggestions.
Checking out a VW is like going on a little engineering scavenger hunt. There are all these little touches waiting to be found. This isn’t just any old sunvisor. It has to know when the mirror is open and the angle at which the visor is set at before the light will come on. That is attention to detail.
So much of what makes a car great or not is in the finest of details. Here’s another example. This all-in-one switch has worked well for VW for a long time, though in use I find there’s room for improvement.
The Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) lets the driver know when it believes there is at least one tire that has pressure below the threshold.
It measures this by comparing the rotational speed of each tire. If the car is driving in a straight line and one wheel is rotating faster by some percentage than the corresponding one on the other side then the faster wheel might have pressure that is notably lower than the others.
Since the system doesn’t actually know the pressure in each tire, it is important that it is comparing tires that were initially all identical to each other from side to side, and possibly front to back.
Any time tires or wheels are changed, the pressures in all four tires should be correctly set. Then the TPMS reset button in the glove box should be pressed for between 2 and 30 seconds. This will recalibrate the system.
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