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You've got your
license! Congratulations!
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You're a girl with a
brand new drivers license! Congratulations. You may
even have a car already, but you probably have questions too.
And chances are, as excited as you are, you're a little scared
too. You realize as well as your parents, drivers ed teacher,
anyone, that driving a car is a big responsibility.
We at
Girlslovewheels.com have scoured the internet looking for
information that would assist you, and all we could find were
depressing crash statistics and horror stories aimed at sending you
right back home.
It got us
thinking that nearly every woman on the road started out as one of
you, a new teenage driver. We all took those drivers ed
lessons, and that first solo drive, and we want you to know we
support you! We believe in you!
We know you're
intelligent, thoughtful young women and we want to answer your
questions, give you information and support your
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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
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Car Maintenance With
You In Mind! |
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
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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
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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 |
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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
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