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People like to see cool-looking things written on their tire sidewalls. They would like to see the names of cool new materials printed there, impressive technological words, and so on. Why, in Japan and other places where English isn't really widely understood, the language is still considered kind of cool. So they just like to print a random cool-sounding words there that mean absolutely nothing. Coolness apart though, the sidewalls of your tires do contain a lot of worthwhile information. And most of that is expressed in secret code numbers. Here's how to read tire numbers and benefit from the knowledge contained therein.

Somewhere around your tire, you'll get to see a code letter that has a string of numbers that follow it.. The first letter is called the service description. Let's break this down.

If your tire was made for a regular car, you would see the letter P there – standing for “passenger car”. If what you have is a small truck, you would see the service description mentioned as LT. If it was a spare tire, it could say T for “temporary”.

When a car charging system fails, it can be a pretty puzzling time to everyone involved. Because when it fails, it doesn't go into a steady decline or even a complete decline. It will decide to work great for three or four days in a row, and then, you'll be stuck in a parking lot 50 miles from home one night and you’ll be trying to see if you can get a signal on your cell phone to call the AAA.

How do you troubleshoot the car charging system? Well, it is customary to start with the battery, the source of all the power in your system, and then trace the line to the charging system.

People often think that a battery stores electricity. It's doesn't really store electrical energy any more than a flowerpot on your roof stores force. If the flower pot falls down off the roof, it can deliver quite a bit of force to whatever it falls on.

The BMW E36 – a car that's been adored around the world ever since it was released in the early 90s – is a kind of 3 series redesign. It was with this release that the 3 series actually became what it is today – an entry-level performance sedan that puts high-tech driving technology into your hands at a reasonable price. To turn the regular 3 series sedan into a supercharged driving machine though, BMW had to redo the vehicle from scratch. The entire chassis on an E36 is made of a stiffer sort of material to handle the kind of stresses that a performance vehicle is bound to come under. There is purpose-built technology in evidence everywhere. And yet, once it's out on the market, there's an entire E36 performance parts aftermarket at your disposal that tries to custom-make the car's ferocity to your tastes.

It's a funny thing that a car that's been so meticulously built can be improved upon with simple add-ons. But it really is true. For instance, the factory-intake system on the E36 is nothing to find fault with. Get an aftermarket option like the aFe Intake System though, and you'll see an immediate improvement in performance. The factory-installed air intake system is clearly a bit too small for the car.

If you have a tiny baby, and if you have a car, you really need to be looking for infant car seats to help keep your baby safe in the car. In fact, you need to be looking for infant car seats about a month before you go into labor. Because you need to be ready with this seat strapped to the back seat the day you take your brand-new baby home. How are you going to take her home from the hospital otherwise?

Now it's not difficult to find such as seat – the market’s crawling with infant car seats. And if you buy one that’s completely rated to be safe, you will have a functional product on your hands. What might be a little tough is finding a seat that you can be sure your baby will be comfortable in. You certainly test out the seats of the new car you plan to buy really well, don't you? You even test out a new mattress you plan to buy.

What do you find when you test those seats and mattresses by sitting in them or lying down in them? Half the time, they just aren't comfortable enough. If that's what the manufacturers do when they know that their customers are going to test their products for comfort every which way, just imagine what to do with infant car seats that they know you couldn't possibly test.

You have had your car for at least 200,000 miles. You're proud of how far it's lasted, but this morning, you keep getting the feeling that perhaps that last drive out may have been its last. You turn the key, and it doesn't cough and sputter like an old man on his first cigarette of the day, like usual. If it did that, it would actually mean it was alive. Instead, you might as well be turning is the key in the lock your front door for all the reaction you're getting out of it. Yes, your car has finally given up the ghost. You could certainly call the junkyard and pay them to take it away. But you're not that kind of person after all, if you managed to coax this much service from it. “Used auto engines” is what you keep thinking to yourself.

Once you get into the search to look for used auto engines for your car, you'll find that it's quite a trade. All kinds of car manufacturers both American and foreign, often bring used auto engines to market that they've recovered from old cars. They usually sell them on to the mechanics. But you'll also find sometimes that they can sell them to the public, directly. The best part is, they sell them very cheaply -- a couple of thousand dollars at most.

Funny, how people can talk about tonneau covers for their trucks their whole lives and never look up what a tonneau actually is. It's pretty simple, actually. It's just the fancy word for the rear compartment of a passenger vehicle. Usually, when people refer to the tonneau of a vehicle, it is a pickup truck with a flat open bed at back there that they speak of. If you think about it, a large bed is quite a convenient thing in a pickup truck. Perhaps, it's the main selling point. But it's not without its drawbacks. One of which is that it's just open to the elements. What do you do if you need to carry anything in there that requires protection? Well, that's what retractable tonneau covers are for.

No matter what brand or model of truck you have - Toyota, Chevrolet, Nissan or anything else - you can be sure that there are choices in at least three or four retractable tonneau covers out there for you.

Still not sure that you should buy something just because they make it for your truck? Perhaps these reasons will convince you.

Here's a little bit of insight into how the car business works – when they sell cars, they sell them with tires, rims – the whole deal. When people go out to buy 20 inch rims for their new cars, it's not the way it is when people plan to get a new car entertainment system or something. People don't buy rims for a functional reason. The do it to look good – to pimp their ride, as it were.

To car owners, it doesn't often even matter often how old and beat up their car is. If they can stick a set of flashy rims there, they feel they've pretty much invested their money well. It's like someone going through a midlife crisis buying a sports car.