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The Planet Automotive Group – Is Making A Big Difference For Children

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PressRelease – The Planet Automotive Group spent the entire month of May raising money for Victory Junction in Randleman, NC.

Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC – During the month, Planet Automotive Group donated $100 for every vehicle sold, new or pre-owned and $1 for every person that liked the their Facebook page. The mission of Victory Junction is to enrich the lives of children with chronic medical conditions or serious illnesses by providing life-changing camping experiences that are exciting, fun and empowering, in a safe and medically sound environment, free of charge.

Best known for beating down high prices and squashing their competition by giving customers great deals, Planet Automotive Group is now fighting to making a difference for the children of Victory Junction.

Showing their commitment to Victory Junction’s incredible cause, in a special check presentation ceremony, Planet Automotive Group donated $10,000.00 to the organization! Representatives from Victory Junction were on hand and graciously accepted the donation on behalf of the children.

Planet Automotive Group knew that not everyone could come out and buy a car in the month of May, so they provided other ways for the entire community to get involved. Besides donations related to vehicle sales, for every “Like” to the Planet Automotive Group Facebook Page between May 1st and May, 31st, 2013, they donated $1 for people’s thumbs up to this great cause!

“We were happy to join Victory Junction’s mission of enriching the lives of children suffering from chronic medical conditions and serious illnesses. We wanted to help the people of Charlotte to stay informed about this great organization. We wanted to do everything we could to help fund Victory Junction and give these children a way to fight back,” said Helmi Felfel, President of The Planet Automotive Group and a proud member of the North Carolina Automobile Dealers Association.

“I felt honored to be a part of this great cause,” said Laura Felfel of The Planet Automotive Group. “We’re happy to help them fight and to make a difference in their lives.”

Victory Junction is a year-round camping environment for children ages six to 16 with chronic medical conditions or serious illnesses. Founded by Kyle and Pattie Petty in honor of their son Adam, the camp is located in Randleman, NC. Victory Junction offers programs for a range of disease groups and maintains strong relationships with more than 30 partner hospitals. Victory Junction’s mission is to provide life-changing camping experiences that are exciting, fun and empowering, in a safe and medically-sound environment. As a not-for-profit organization, the camp operates solely through the support of generous individuals, groups and corporations to provide this experience at no charge to children and their families. For more information or to donate, visit www.victoryjunction.org.

About Planet Automotive Group:
Planet Automotive Group is a premier automotive dealer in the Charlotte area and is owned by Helmi Felfel, a member of the North Carolina Automobile Dealers Association. At Planet Automotive Group, we make buying new and quality used cars easy, we have a knowledgeable friendly sales staff and attractive financing options. Planet Automotive Group is proud to be the best solution for all of your car buying needs. At Planet Automotive Group, we strive to always deliver a superior buying experience and customer service is our number one concern. Planet Automotive Group wishes to earn your business for life. We know the only way to do that is to prove to you how important you are to us as a customer. Please come in and let us show you.

Planet Automotive Group is the best place on the planet to buy a car!
For any additional information please visit http://www.planetautomotivegroup.com/ or call (704) 209-7847

snake Oil Vs. Oil Additive Engine Automotive Friction Problem Part I

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Engine Automotive Oil Additives or Snake Oil? Oil additives have failed to deliver for years.

In August 1992, a brilliantly written article exposed the repeated failures in the claims of the oil additive (engine automotive and trucking) industry. The article was entitled Snake Oil – Is That Additive Really A Negative? It was written by Fred Rau and was originally printed in Road Rider magazine, now Motorcycle Consumer News. That expose provided the basis for what we in the industry knew: oil additives are a means of lifting money from the wallets of uninformed consumers.

Many in the engine automotive industry were already skeptics. Weve heard all the promises of friction reduction, longer lasting engines, and fuel savings. Repeatedly, such wanna be solutions failed to live up to the hype. With over thirty years in the field, I was a full blown skeptic with dozens of oil additives experience under my belt.

However, an experienced entrepreneur in the field of toll blending for heavy duty industrial solutions drew on his expertise to create an environmentally safe, friction reducing, motor oil additive, solving the one problem oil additives failed to overcome.

Now, if the problem is truly solved, the benefits are obvious:
-less friction means engine automotive protection
-less heat means engine automotive friction is reduced
-longer engine life means a surge in engine automotive performance
-less friction/heat produces a drop in engine automotive related expense
-less friction, heat also leads directly to increased engine automotive fuel economy
Motor oil, as a lubricant, works but is not always sufficient. When it gets hot, motor oil breaks down, vaporizes and burns. The oil industry has been quite innovative, using different additives to combat this process. Motor oil additives consisting of zinc compounds, molybdenum (moly), chlorinated paraffins, and others. The problem with all these additives (apart from plugging oil passages and toxicity) is they are only suspended in the oil.
But, you say, thats the way to get the additives to the hot spots needing friction protection. You must suspend the oil additive in the oil so it is carried to the engine parts needing protection. Thats standard theory.
Yes.
And thats been the guiding assumption for the oil additive industry all along. Suspend the oil additive in motor oil and let it be carried to the friction hot spots.
2. The necessary assumption also provides the problem with engine automotive theory.
Repeat: Suspend the oil additive in motor oil and let be carried to the friction hot spots.
So, whats the problem?
The problem is, the oil additives do not permanently adhere to internal engine stress points. Its presumed in all oil additive engineering approaches that the motor oil is going to carry its oil additive to the high stress points of the engine. This is where the extra lubricating properties are needed.
In that necessary assumption also lies the problem.
As an engine works under heavy load conditions, pressure and friction build up at some of those metal points. The result? The oil is suddenly “missing in action”. It burns up from excessive heat or is squeezed out (exceeds its load bearing capacity) due to excessive pressure.

Either way you end up with metal on metal. The additives themselves cant work because there isnt enough oil present to suspend them. Its been squeezed out or burned up. Put bluntly, an additive can only be where the motor oil is present.
Remember, if oil additive engineering is relying on an additives suspension in motor oil to do its job, then engineering is also stuck with the limitations of the oils properties to withstand heat and pressure.
Note. The additive must be able to withstand heat and pressure to a greater degree than oil or Why bother adding it?.
3. Solution: What if an oil additive actually starts to perform at the temperatures and stress where oil normally fails?
The solution was an additive already meeting industrial needs concerning friction and heat build up.
Carried by the motor oil, it comes to friction points
– engine rings against the cylinder wall
-bearings
-camshafts
-lifters
-valve guides
-turbo charger
-oil pump
Here it does something that no other additive has ever been able to accomplish. This oil additive disassociates (molecularly) from the oil and literally adheres to the metal at the point of friction, leaving a soft metal carboxylate film that can out perform motor oil as a lubricant in a high friction/heat application (as can be seen in the pictures/test results referenced at the site below).
So this lubricant, unlike oil, whether it be synthetic or petroleum, actually starts to perform at the temperatures and stress where oil normally fails. Remember what happens inside the engine, when fuel ignites at the top of the compression stroke and the piston is moving down the cylinder. There, most of the oil on the cylinder wall gets burned up.

But this additive doesnt burn up like the motor oil carrying it. It molecularly embeds itself into the pores of the cylinder wall. So, when the piston is traveling back up the cylinder, the additive acts as a lubricating agent and is always there.

So, in summation: since youre getting rid of the friction, then youre getting rid of the heat generated from it. That means your oil lasts longer. It doesnt get contaminated as quickly because those high friction points are being adequately lubricated. Adequately lubricated, they will cease to be high friction points, running cooler, the oil will pass through those points without burning which creates harmful acids and sludge.

Most importantly your engine can last longer, run more efficiently, and the fuel that was being used to overcome the friction can now be used to move you down the road to where you need to go.

Increasing Automotive Performance

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The automotive performance of a car is always related to the amount of fuel consumed by it. However, a cars performance can be increased in certain ways without negatively affecting the gas mileage of a car. Given below are few tips:

Performance chips: Computer chips that operate most new cars these days keep track of how much horsepower and torque can be displaced. Using performance chips or recalibrating the current chip used in a car can help in increasing the torque and horsepower to a great extent.

Cold air Intake: Power of a car engine can be increased if the temperature of the air that enters the car can be reduced. An under the hood modification in the form of cold air intake can help in this. Such an enhancement also beautifies the engine bay by making it colorful and attractive. Such a unit will also make an appealing sound.

Reusable air filters: Throughout the life of most of the cars, about 6 to 12 auto air filters are used without facing any problem, but when not in use most of them end up at the landfills for waste materials. Even though reusable air filters cost thrice as much as normal air filters, they are washable and last much longer than the regular ones. In fact, when you buy a reusable air filter for your car, it is actually the last one you will be ever buying for it. These air filters help you to increase acceleration and horsepower, besides having a very positive impact on the environment.

Performance exhaust systems: Another way to unleash horsepower, trapped up torque, and improve the overall automotive performance is by using “catalyst-back exhaust systems” (cat-back) for cars. Such a system installed in a car reduces exhaust back pressure by using low restriction performance mufflers and large width exhaust pipes while keeping all the important emission parts in their proper place. In addition to better performance, the exhaust system emits awesome sound.

To improve the automotive performance of your car, you may have to bear additional costs. While shopping online for the auto aftermarket products always opt for a trusted wholesaler. That way you will be able to acquire good quality automotive parts at very low prices. The auto aftermarket products/ services for increasing automotive performance of cars include accessories, replacement parts, appearance products, lubricants, various tools and equipments required for repair and service repairs. If you do the shopping yourself, you will be able to save a lot.

In 2007, the auto aftermarket had done better than in 2006, with a total sale of $285.5, which is a 4% increase from the previous year. In the light truck and car section alone the auto aftermarket experienced $211.4 billion sales while in case of heavy duty vehicles the aftermarket sales figure stood at $74.1 billion.

Affordable And Quality Apparel- Choose Mango Clothes!

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What makes Mango clothes popular? And why Mango becomes the most favorite brand of clothing fashion line of most young women (and even men)?

First, with Mango you can be assured that you are acquiring a product that has both the fashion style and the quality at a very affordable price. We, as buyers, are fascinated in getting a good bargain on high quality clothing, and this makes the Mango Company become so successful. Mango knows how to understand what the public is after when it comes to their fashion choices. They understand that everyone wants the latest trends, but can often not afford to dress in the way that they want. By introducing Mango clothes fashion line that are trendy, attractive and affordable they guarantee that they will meet all the needs of an average clothing consumer.

Mango has over eight hundred stores in the world. In fact, at present Mango has opened 1135 stores in North America, the Middle East, Latin American states, Europe and more than 90 countries. Mango clothes remain fashionably relevant to continue their current success. Moreover, the company is planning to open more stores to triple their current number.

Second, Mango Clothing has been able to provide consumers with a great alternative to high end, high priced clothing. Why? Because the quality of Mango clothes are almost the same as what other designer clothes provide, plus, it is not as expensive as what other designer clothes is. In relation to this, you should also be aware of the clothing retailers that hit the mark with the look and affordability of their clothing, but fall short when it comes to the quality. Chances are when you have was the item for several times, it falls apart; the color fade, the fabric gets loose or sometimes the fabric gets shorter. If the value is not there and no matter how economically priced it is, you will spend more in the long run.

With Mango clothing line you have a wide range of fashion clothes to choose from. The latest clothing lines from Mango Clothing promise to offer consumers some great choices when you are looking for great looking clothing. Mango main products series divided into four themes: Suit series, Basic series, Casual series, and Jeans series. Sure you will find one that will best fit your preferences and fashion sense. You can visit any nearest local store or try visiting their official website so you can view what are the latest offerings available prior shopping on store. If there is no available store near at your place, another good way to purchase Mango clothes is through shopping online just make sure that you pay attention to the online source that you use to buy your clothing.

Identifying Baby Clothes One From The Other

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For first time parents, the pregnancy and the fact about giving birth is overwhelming enough. Not to mention, the new things that you need to get yourself familiar with. One of them is the variety of baby clothes that your baby needs ranging from onesies to rompers and a lot more. Simple as it sounds but most of them are too confusing for someone who doesn’t have any experience with parenting yet. Here are some information that you can rely on in order for you to be able to identify what it is and when you can use them.

Onesie is a one-piece clothing, short-sleeved outfit without legs that snaps in the crotch area. It is the most common baby clothing that you’ll need for your baby. Despite any movements, your baby’s tummy will not be exposed and it gives a very comfortable fit. If the weather requires more clothing to be worn, it will perfectly fit to be under any clothing.

The difference between a romper and a onesie is the length. A romper is still a one-piece outfit but it covers the legs too or about knee-length. Snaps are also available at the bottom area for easy diaper change. Snaps at the shoulder area are also useful in accommodating your baby’s head.

Coveralls are also one-piece outfits with long pant legs and with either short or long sleeves. You can put them on to your baby easily with snaps that goes all the way down from the neckline to the feet. It does not that much of a difference with sleepers. Sleepers are still one-piece outfit that accommodates full body but they are footed garments.

Other items that your baby should have are receiving blankets and bunting. Receiving blankets are made from light materials, preferably organic. They are used to swaddle your baby and keep them comfortably tight. Bunting is a baby blanket which can be snapped together so your baby can “wear” it.

There’s a lot that you need to have for your baby. Thus, it is safe to say that you need to find items will provide you great value for your hard-earned money. You can also shop online on Sweet Pea Baby Clothes to enjoy high quality items at reasonable costs.