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What is headlight restoration? (Part 1)Headlight restoration Everyone wants their car running and looking perfect, but this is not always easy. Taking care of the small things in your car before they get out of hand is a good way of maintaining your vehicle. Essential things like washing the car, cleaning the interior, changing the oil and keeping up with the regular maintenance can ensure that the car remains in good shape always. When washing your car, do you notice how the headlights look? Many vehicles have cloudy, hazy, discolored, and scratched headlights. This is very common, even with newer vehicles. Many people don't bother to wash and wax these parts because they never look good after all the effort. After using your car for a while, the headlights become cloudy, and this can result in a significant loss of visibility at night. If the headlights become dull, yellow, or even hazy, you may be endangering your life and those of your passengers ... read more

Pros and cons of using Nitrogen to inflate your tires (Part 3) This is part 3 of our series on using Nitrogen to inflate your tires. · Click here for part one. · Click here for part two. Drawbacks you can expect when using nitrogen inflation. 1. Regardless of its ability to stay put within the tire, nitrogen is still a gas and eventually you will need to restore the pressure of your tires by topping them off. When this happens, nitrogen can only be topped off by nitrogen. The alternative, which is filling it up using compressed air, is a slow and tedious affair that involves deflating the tire completely before re-inflating it using compressed air. 2. To fill your tires with nitrogen, you will need to dig deeper into your pockets. It might save you money at the pump due to the ... read more

Understanding the New York State Automotive Safety Inspections Requirements (Part 3) This is part 3 of our series on New York State safety inspections. · Click here for part one. · Click here for part two. Emissions inspections for cars and light trucks The Federal Clean Air Act passed in 1990 requires that the New York State carries out an inspection program towards minimizing dangerous emissions from mainly passenger cars and light-duty trucks. The inspection is carried out jointly with the safety inspection. When a vehicle fails the emissions inspection, it cannot be registered and if it already registered, it may not be renewed. On-Board Diagnostics Generation II (OBDII) Inspection This inspection requ ... read more

Pros and cons of using Nitrogen to inflate your tires (Part 2) Please click here for part one of our series on nitrogen fill for your tires. Benefits of Nitrogen tire inflation1. Provides more consistent inflation. As much as compressed air is still widely used, it is important to note that one of the most detrimental properties of oxygen is the permeability of its molecules. The rate at which oxygen seeps out of the tires causes them to lose up to 3PSI per month. Nitrogen has significantly larger molecules than oxygen, being as much as four times larger than oxygen molecules. This property makes nitrogen-filled tires unable to lose pressure through permeation no matter how long it takes. Therefore, it enables your tires to maintain optimum pressure for longer periods of time without the need to top them up constantly. Keeping the tire pressure constant ... read more

Brake RepairImportant brake repair and maintenance tips (Part 4)NOTE: This is part 4 of 106St Tire & Wheel's series on brake repair. · Click here for part 1. · Click here for part 2. · Click here for part 3. But what, then, are brakes even made of? Well, there are three main types of material, each with its own benefits. Let's look into what they do. · Ceramic– this is not exactly the same material you'll find on your dinner table. It does, however, have a lot of the same benefits. The reason why ceramic is used for food is that it insulates high temperatures, and the more advanced heavy-duty ceramic used in brakes also handles the heat and fricti ... read more