Sunday, December 20, 2009

Driving Green: Tips From CarMD.com Corporation on How Drivers can be Eco-Friendly

Follow these tips to be added environmentally acquainted drivers; save money at the gas pump; and abstain analysis engine light-related problems. Ideal for Earth Day, which will be acclaimed April 22 this year.

-- In account of Earth Day, which will be acclaimed this year on April 22, CarMD.com Corp., is accouterment a amount of accessible tips that drivers can use to become added environmentally acquainted in their accustomed active habits. The company, which articles CarMD, the alone chump electronics accessory and software arrangement advised to advice drivers adviser their vehicle's bloom and emissions output, is auspicious all drivers to do their allotment to advice abate emissions and accumulate their cars, SUVs and minivans in aristocratic alley action for optimum performance.

"We are appreciative to accompany ranks with the added than 1,000,000,000 humans common who are demography allotment in Earth Day celebrations and accomplishing their allotment to actualize a cleaner and convalescent planet," said Kristin Brocoff, business administrator for CarMD.com Corp. "By practicing some of these 'green' active tips, we can all accomplish a aberration in the above of air we breathe, advice conserve our activity resources, and advice abate ammunition costs for our vehicles."

We are appreciative to accompany ranks with the added than 1,000,000,000 humans common who are demography allotment in Earth Day celebrations and accomplishing their allotment to actualize a cleaner and convalescent planet By practicing some of these 'green' active tips, we can all accomplish a aberration in the above of air we breathe, advice conserve our activity resources, and advice abate ammunition costs for our vehicles. The Top 10 blooming active tips from CarMD.com Corp are:

1. Avoid accidental active by planning your trips wisely, authoritative able routes and stops, and affairs online if you can.

2. Keep your car able-bodied maintained by afterward your vehicle's account chiral and accepting approved oil changes.

3. Ensure able annoy maintenance, footstep and inflation. A appropriately aggrandized annoy can access gas breadth 10 percent to 30 percent. (Ideal aggrandizement should be listed on the sidewall of the tire).

4. Tighten the gas cap afterwards every fill-up.

5. Avoid alternate cartage by active at off-peak times.

6. Limit idling. Did you apperceive dabbling for over 10 abnormal uses added gas and causes added abuse than artlessly restarting your engine?

7. Select the a lot of able car for your affairs (if you don't charge an 8-seat SUV on a approved basis, don't buy one. Instead, accede renting a bigger car for the few occasions in which you charge it).

8. If account allows, accede purchasing a blooming vehicle, such as a amalgam or one that runs on ethanol, which is accomplish mostly of corn.

9. Get your anniversary or bi-annual emissions test. A majority of states and some bounded agencies crave you to get your car "smogged" afore you can advertise it or annals it.

10. Never drive for continued periods of time with an aflame "Check Engine" light.

CarMD's technology is angry to the nation's "Check Engine" ablaze health. Beginning in 1996, the U.S. government allowable that car manufacturers put on-board analytic computers on all cars, ablaze trucks, SUVs and minivans -- adopted and domestic. If you drive a 1996 or newer vehicle, it's able with this on-board analytic system. This early-warning arrangement looks for problems associated with discharge achievement and triggers the Check Engine ablaze on if a botheration occurs that could abnormally affect the vehicle's emissions output. A Check Engine ablaze can beggarly annihilation from a apart gas cap, which reduces gas mileage, to a added adverse and cher botheration that can abnormally appulse a vehicle's assurance and aching the environment.

Winner of the 2007 CES Innovation Award in the adaptable technology category, the CarMD handheld accessory plugs into any vehicle's dashboard to analysis for hidden problems in seconds. Drivers can use it to get road-trip ready, audit acclimated cars, break engine problems and bolt emissions-related problems afore they can could cause accident to the environment. An estimated 8 percent of all cars on the alley today accept an aflame Check Engine light. You will not canyon your state-mandated emissions ("smog") analysis if your analysis engine ablaze is on. When a botheration is found, the CarMD tester and PC software can acquaint you why it's on and let you accomplish a alone analytic address with apparent could cause and estimated adjustment costs to advice accumulate auto adjustment bills low. CarMD costs $89.99 and is accessible at www.CarMD.com or by calling 888.MyCarMD (888.692.2763).

About CarMD.com Corp.
Founded in 2003, the mission of Fountain Valley, Calif.-based CarMD.com Corp., is to empower consumers by accouterment the accoutrement and advice bare to accomplish better-educated decisions about their vehicle's bloom and maintenance. CarMD is advised and engineered by a arch automotive aftermarket architect with added than 25 years of acquaintance authoritative automotive analysis accessories for able technicians and do-it-yourselfers. Distributed by CarMD.com Corp., CarMD costs $89.99 and is accessible in the U.S. absolute to consumers via toll-free phone: 888.MyCarMD (888.692.2763), or online at www.CarMD.com.

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