Skip to main content

Posts

MY CAR

Shopping for a new or used car? The auto market offers you variety of vehicles to choose from. You will find yourself drawn to cars that look great to drive be a smart consumer by evaluating the car for the safety features it offers. Here are some features to look for to ensure the safety of your passengers and your safety as the driver. Safety belts - the single most important safety feature that has to be installed in a car. Seat belts keep passengers safe in their seats so that impact to dashboard, steering wheel or other things in the car will be avoided. Try to sit in the car and put on the seat belt to test it. Air bags - designed to protect the driver and passengers, these bags are usually hidden in the steering wheel, dashboard, sides, and even in rear seats. Frontal air bags inflate to prevent you from hitting the dashboard, windshield and/or steering wheel. Side air bags will protect car occupants to hit the door or other objects that will crash through it. Air bag sy

TYRES TO CARES

As a responsible driver and the owner of a vehicle you should regularly check your tyres. This is your legal responsibility and the implications if you do not do so are massive! The least of your problems could be being pulled over be the police. This means that you could receive a fine of up to £2,500 and three points on your licence per tyre! Whilst this not good for your bank balance initially, the penalty points would also increase your insurance premium and potentially result in you losing your licence. A penalty is the least of your worries as driving on bald or defective tyres could lead to something far worse such as an accident, or as they are often referred to now, an incident. As an accident suggests that it was not someone or something's fault. Incidents however are always someone's fault, and it is the police's job to work out who or what was to blame. If your car tyres are illegal and that was the cause of the accident there is also the risk that your insu