Car Buying Tips, Car Selling Tips, Consumer Tips
Recently I had a client ask me to convince him that buying a certain replacement car would be the smartest choice for him. You see he has a world class “S Class” Mercedes Benz in his garage. He is a tad frightened by the prospect of keeping his beautiful piece of...
Car Buying Tips, Consumer Tips
When it comes to people you can trust, car dealers are right up there with politicians. How that ever came to be I cannot say. Car dealers are notorious for being aggressive, ruthless and untrustworthy and they usually wear way too much cologne. It is an unfortunate...
Consumer Tips, Used Car Reviews
Is Bigger Better? If you ask most people what car would be safer in an accident given a choice between a big old heavy Volvo 940 wagon pictured to the right or the tiny Renault Modus, most would choose the larger car. We decide these things based mostly on the...
Car Buying Tips, Consumer Tips
When it comes to financing, car dealers generally do not play fair. There are many dealer financing tricks to contend with. They have an incentive to charge you as much as possible in the annual percentage rate (APR) for the amount you will need to finance. The...
Car Buying Tips, Consumer Tips
My Worst Cars To Buy list is compiled from overall reliability data covering models with much-below-average reliability. It includes only the models for which I have 3 years of sufficient data. Problems with the engine major, engine cooling, transmission major, and...
Car Buying Tips, Consumer Tips
In the car world it can be quite confusing to decide which are the best used cars to buy. Will it be be reliable, safe, and offer many years of predictable service? These questions are answered in the Halo List. I have put together a collection of cars that I call my...
Car Buying Tips, Car Maintenance, Miscellaneous
Following is the complete Toyota Timing Belt and Timing Chain List. Some Toyota engines have timing belts, some have timing chains. It pays to know what your engine has. Belts need to be replaced at normal intervals (usually every 90-100k on late model cars) or you...
Consumer Tips, Miscellaneous
Everyone knows about craigslist.org, but only a few of us have used the much more effective search tool named http://crazedlist.com/ on a daily basis. It was a sad day when I recently logged on and found the following message: “SORRY! crazedlist is down until...
