By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist You’ve probably heard about “paying it forward” and of course, we all know about paying it back. But what about paying it down? Debt, I mean. Sit in traffic and look around. Probably no more than 20 or 30 percent of the cars around you are paid-for. People routinely buy […]
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The Ticking Time Bomb In Your Dashboard
By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Air bags – driver and front seat passenger air bags – have been mandatory in cars since the mid 1990s. That means there are now millions of older cars on the road with air bags. These air bags are ticking time bombs, financially speaking (and otherwise; more on that below) […]
Honda MPG Lawsuit: Well, She Won
By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Heather Peters (no relation to this writer) just won her lawsuit against Honda over what she argued were misleading claims about the gas mileage she’d get out of her then-new 2006 Civic hybrid. She was awarded $9,867 in compensation, the maximum amount she could have been awarded in small claims […]
Kill The Idiot Lights
Editor’s Note: The following article by Steve Prestegard has been reprinted here with permission. Jalopnik is embarking on a campaign all vehicle owners should support: It’s pretty easy to dismiss the “check engine” light as just stupid, because, well, it is. I suppose if you thought that the cause of smoke coming from under your […]
The Death Of The Spare Tire?
By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist I recently did a column about the burbling war between the Safety Nazis and the Mileage Mussolinis. Well, here’s the first casualty: Your safety. Because your next new car probably won’t come with even a mini-spare – let alone an actual full-size spare tire. The latter has been MIA from […]
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