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11 Mar 2010

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The purpose of tuning is to beef up cars performance and style. Lots ways exist to help you make the most out of your car. However, if you have never tuned for performance before, it can be a difficult topic. Unlike tuning strictly for style, performance customization requires that you adhere to modifications that offer real performance benefits, rather than just good looks. While many elements of the various tuning styles offer performance upgrades, some can actually take away from your performance. Here are the best clues and tips to help you maximize car performance while still making your car look hot.

*Body Kits* – Body kits can add a dramatic racecar inspired style to your current car. However, you’ll need to know what to look for in order to maximize the cars performance. For instance, body kits that include front bumpers can help you streamline your car to a greater extent, helping air to flow better over your car, rather than underneath it. Side skirts also help add performance and help your car hold the road better. Finally, back spoilers provide more down force on the rear of the vehicle, while diffusing airflow.

*Alloy Wheels* – Alloy wheels and tyres can help you hold the road or track much better. However, you’ll need to avoid chromed steel wheels. These are actually heavier than aluminum wheels, and can take from the performance of your car. Remember, the purpose of performance tuning is to lighten the car, rather than adding more weight. Rather than chromed steel, opt for aluminum wheels. These are much more lightweight and offer performance benefits.

*Custom Tyres* – If you are going to be racing your car, you’ll need tyres with more grip that what standard options offer. Z rated tyres are made of softer compounds than touring tyres or other consumer rated tyres. However, remember that softer rubber wears out more quickly than harder compounds. As a result, you’ll likely need to replace your tyres more often. Having more than one set of tyres (one for races and one for normal driving) can remove this problem.

*Suspension* – Your car’s suspension can also detract from car performance. Adding custom sway bars, coil over kits and strut bars can help you attain the suspension you need. This will make the difference between slowing down through a turn and being able to accelerate through a turn. It also helps eliminate problems like suspension sway and shifting during driving.

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Get Help From Utah Buick Dealers In Deciding Whether To Buy Or Lease

11 Mar 2010

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Utah Buick dealers are able to help you choose wisely between your buying and leasing options, not an easy task. One aspect of your choosing will relate to your personal values, feelings, priorities, and preferences. How crucial is it to you to drive a new vehicle every two or three years? How important is it to keep your repair risks minimal? How important is having a low monthly payment? How much do you desire a payment-free vehicle as soon as possible? Making decisions on these types of personal priorities helps you sort through the non-financial issues, but it’s also important to understand financial differences between the leasing and buying processes.

Through a six-year comparison of the three-year consecutive leases of two new $20,000 vehicles, with the purchase of a new $20,000 vehicle, there appears to be lots of difference in the amounts spent on down payments, insurance, monthly payments, taxes, maintenance, and DMV costs. The purchased vehicle (bought on a five-year loan) totaled $34,228 in costs over the six years and retained maybe a few thousand dollars of value at the end. The leased auto totaled $38,176 in the six years of costs and had no retained equity. That is a $4948 bigger cost for the leased cars, without adjusting for the purchased car’s retained value. The purchased vehicle did have one payment-free year out of the six. So, buying provides a vehicle with partial equity and higher monthly payments, for a lower overall cost. And leasing provides an auto for lower payments, no equity, and higher overall costs.

So, for the six-year comparison, purchasing a car is the cheaper route, but it has larger monthly payments that potentially could extend over a full six years. A purchaser would keep the same auto for six years instead of leasing a new one every three, but would have the option to keep the old vehicle for possibly many more years, until it died. Conversely, the leased auto has to go back to the dealer the instant the lease is over, rendering the driver vehicle-less.

Leasing offers the advantage of low or nonexistent down payments and lower sales taxes amounts, but it generally has higher insurance costs than purchasing does. Leased autos, however, usually have built-in gap coverage, while purchased autos almost never do. This means that when a financed vehicle is stolen or totaled, the debtor could end up paying off the bank balance (even for thousands of dollars) after the insurance company has settled.

Leasing a car is somewhat more complicated than buying one is, and it gives more opportunities to misinterpret and misunderstand the process and make mistakes. So, it’s prudent to be as informed and careful as possible when new to leasing. One thing to be aware of with leasing is that when it’s over and you turn in your vehicle, if you’ve exceeded your allowed miles, you will pay a penalty. To get more leasing and buying information, visit your GMC, Buick, or Pontiac dealers in Utah.

Learn more about Pontiac dealers in Utah. Stop by Gregory Motor’s site where you can find out all about Pontiac dealers in Utah and what leasing versus buying does for you.

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