GREEN CARD FOR CAR: WHY DO WE NEED WHERE TO GET ACCOUNT
Traveling to another country is more convenient when using your own car. But in a…

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Five reasons to love and hate the Mazda CX-7
Mazda joined the crossover race later than other Japanese brands. Toyota, Honda and Subaru were…

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Mercedes-Benz EQC electric crossover
About the Mercedes-Benz EQC electric crossover, a lot became known a month ago after its…

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Kalina, red Kalina: buy Lada Kalina
What, where and how are we looking? AvtoVAZ never pleased us with interesting restyling (he…

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Chita, Squirrel, Ant: Soviet rare cars, cars
Yuri A. Dolmatovsky, Candidate of Technical Sciences, a talented engineer and artist, founder and theorist…

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Five reasons to love and hate Lifan Smily

They say that if you see something that looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then this is a duck. But if something like the Mini flashes in the traffic, this does not mean that you actually saw the car of the famous British brand. It is possible that you caught a “Chinese” mimicking him by the name of Lifan Smily.
The Smily compact hatchback, belonging to the A segment, was first shown at the 2008 Beijing Motor Show. However, then he was called (and is still called) Lifan 320, and the name Smily was assigned to the model exclusively for the Russian market.
When someone says that Smily is a clone or a copy of Mini, this is at least not true. The car is really made with a big eye on the iconic minicar, but it is rather a “variation on the theme” than direct copying. Continue reading

ROTATOR ENGINE RADIATOR. HOW TO ELIMINATE?

Leakage of the cooling system on the road indicates wear / crack of a part and various sealants – only a short-term solution to the problem, which will gradually lead to repair and replacement of parts. Therefore, it is not necessary to consider means to eliminate the leakage of the cooling system as a cure for trouble, in any case this is a TEMPORARY decision. If there is a radiator on a long road, and there is no possibility to solder or seal the crack, remove the safety valve from the plug. Overpressure will disappear and flow will decrease or stop altogether. SPECIAL SEALS Often, the radiator or cooling system pipes begin to flow in a long journey. Continue reading

HOW TO UNDERSTAND WHAT MACHINE PERFORMED?

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1. The fact that the car was repainted is evidenced by the difference in shades of body parts, even the most insignificant. You can consider this, being at a distance of about 10 m from the car, preferably with side lighting. To make sure that body parts (for example, the door and wing) should be viewed from several angles. Having fixed a look at suspicious elements, one should move along a curve that approximately coincides with a circle whose center is on the object in question. Colorists who can pick up perfectly matching shades can be found not often, therefore this method allows detecting the discrepancy of colors. Continue reading

BRASS WINDSHIELDS FOR MACHINE. WHAT ARE HAPPEN?
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Go to the barricades: buy the Mitsubishi Outlander II
It is now Outlander in the model range Mitsubishi occupies an intermediate position: between the…

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