Girlslovewheels.com is very proud to have been featured in the June 2006 issue of Seventeen Magazine's automotive edition celebrating teen girls who love their wheels! 

And to be the source for two of their "Top 10 Car Accessories"

Girlslovewheels.com promises to bring you information and tips relative to you, the young woman driver.  We know you are going to do just fine on the road and we promise to bring you information designed to enhance your driving experience.

First of all, no disrespect to your youthful intelligence intended, but we know there are certain things that tends to happen to new drivers a lot.  The type of things that until they happen to you, you don't much think about them.  A dead car battery, running out of windshield fluid when you need it most, a wiper blade that won't clear the rain off your windshield, etc.  The reason we know, is because it happened to each and every one of us.  Those things still occasionally happen. Some things never change.

And some things change dramatically.  

When we were your age we didn't see . . .

Marcia Brady checking the oil in her car!
Marilyn Monroe checking her tire pressure!
ANY picture of a woman changing a flat tire before 1995!

Here's what we regularly see now, in our shared age of empowerment, enlightenment and education:

Women, of all ages, safely driving cars in movies, in ads, in real life!

Women like Cameron Diaz, Missy Elliott, and Pink pumping their own gas!

Competent, able women with their heads under the hoods of their cars determining what the problem might be with their car.

WHY?

Because they can.

Can you?

Well, why not?

Learning to take a quick look at a few things in your car, such as the oil level, coolant level, and tire pressure, can go a long way towards keeping you on the road, and not stuck beside it. As you bounce around this site, we’re also going to help you learn a few basic advanced driving strategies. Find the info, read it, and give it a try next time you're behind the wheel.

On different pages in the website, we focus on some of the basic systems of each car: cooling, lubrication, electricity (meaning the battery and the fuses), and tires.

… Cooling
Your car’s engine would run at something like 2500 degrees if there wasn’t a cooling system in place. And, at 2500 degrees, it wouldn’t run for long. To bring down the internal temperature of your engine, the radiator circulates coolant throughout your engine block to help dissipate the heat developed as a result of your engine creating the power to get your car moving. The coolant is in a closed system under enormous pressure, and we’ll show you how and when to check it to make sure you’re giving your car the help it needs to keep running under these temperatures.

…Lubrication
Friction is the great enemy in your car’s engine. Checking your oil and regularly replacing your oil is one of the easiest things you can do to extend your engine’s life and minimize the risk of on-the-road engine problems. Other important fluids include the power steering fluid, which allow you to turn your steering wheel without being a champion weight lifter, the power brake fluid which allows the braking system to work effectively, and the transmission fluid which keeps the transmission from grinding itself into a million tiny shreds of metal. Each are important, each can easily be checked with little more than visual inspection on a monthly basis, and each fluid can save you thousands of dollars down the road.

… Electricity (battery/fuses)
To us, one of life’s great frustrations is coming out to your car and finding it won’t start. When you realize it’s something very simple like a dead battery, it’s even more frustrating because more than likely you got a signal or two that it was coming and you didn’t pay attention to it. The car’s engine is self-contained and doesn’t need anything (other than fluids like fuel and oil) to keep going, once it gets going. But the electrical charge is what puts it all in motion, and we can help you learn a few tips to make that process reliable, and also what to do when it fails.

… Tires
Tires are what keep you on the road. Literally. And, they have been designed by engineers to do that in a very specific way. When we leave our tires underinflated, keep them on the car after their useful life has been completed, or let them wear in unsafe ways, we are compromising our own safety. But, like with most other parts of our cars, if we pay a little bit of attention to them, we can improve their life and our safety.

So, there you have it. Information about each of these topics is splattered around under different headings, and you can learn alot about staying safe and improving as a driver. Let's give a try, shall we?

Printed with permission from S2W.org.

For more driving information, and facts visit:

We've collected the following links we think you will find fun, interesting and helpful!

Safe Smart Women 
Be sure to check out SafeSmartWomen (S2W) a national nonprofit organization which educates, empowers and enables young women to improve their behind-the-wheel performance and their safety. Full of driver safety strategies and car care awareness this is a don't miss site for any woman on wheels!
http://www.s2w.org 


Teendriving.com 
A site full of tips to help new drivers, you'll find hundreds of safe driving and defensive driving tips from buying a used car to driving in traffic, driving around school, even tips on parallel parking, and buying auto insurance.  As a community service, we've collected safe driving tips that new drivers might find helpful to prevent accidents and are sharing them here.
http://www.teendriving.com 

Girlslovewheels.com salutes quotable women:

Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.

Diane Ackerman