Carolina Tire Lists Top 10 Car Killers

It pays to beware of these 10 Most Wanted Car Killers, the corrosive agents of your car’s destruction from within. They tend to be stealthy killers, often escaping the notice of even the most careful car owners.

Thankfully there's a way to protect your car with BG brand products and services from Carolina Tire. Get to know your car’s 10 worst enemies. Then ask your Carolina Tire service advisor about BG Scheduled Maintenance. There’s a quality BG service specifically designed to protect your car from each one of the 10 Most Wanted Car Killers.

#1 - Lube & Fuel Oxidation

Oxidation of engine oil produces harmful sludge that can reduce engine cooling, accelerate component wear and plug passages necessary for proper oil circulation and lubrication. Abrasive material then accumulates within the engine, which can destroy bearings and promote seal leakage. Likewise, oxidative by-products of fuel reduce the volumetric efficiency of fuel pumps and filters, and can result in costly fuel injector failure. Higher tailpipe emissions and poor fuel economy always follow in the footsteps of damaging fuel deposits.

# 2 Diesel Injection Clogging

Heavy carbon residues build up on fuel injectors, thus reducing their optimal efficiency. This leads to a poor fuel spray pattern, reduced injector cooling and flow, and inefficient combustion. If left unattended, this condition can rob an engine of power and will produce excess exhaust gas smoke, poor power and fuel economy and shortened injector life.

# 3 Drive Line Abrasion

Rear differential ring and pinion gears can suffer scoring, fretting and pitting due to lack of lubrication and corrosion. Stress cracks may develop that serve to weaken the gear surface and promote further damage. Also, excessive gear and bearing noise may indicate that abrasive metallic wear is occurring within your gear set. Progressive gear wear within this unit will have a negative effect on seals, causing fluid leakage.

# 4 Fuel Air / Induction Carbon

Gummy residues derived from residual fuel vapors have a tendency to accumulate within the air intake (plenum) over time. These deposits restrict air flow and disrupt combustion air swirl and dispersal. This all serves to decrease engine efficiency and fuel economy. Engine devices like MAF sensors, Idle Air Controllers and critical throttle plate clearances are also impeded by these gummy deposits.

# 5 Transmission Sludge

Transmissions operate under widely adverse conditions and expose the transmission fluid to wide swings in temperature. As Automatic Transmission Fluid (ATF) ages, it forms sludge, which reduces fluid circulation and transmission cooling. Abrasive metal particles generated from aged ATF will ruin seals and cause irreversible damage to internal transmission components. A customer may eventually experience erratic shifting, excessive vibration or noise, or even transmission failure.

# 6 Power Steering Debris

High pressure power steering units require excellent lubricants to function properly. Damage to gears, seals, O-rings, bearings and bushings, and spool valves are dramatically increased by poor quality lubricants. Critical brass and other soft alloys rely on the proper balance of lubricant additives to ensure long power steering life and trouble-free operation.

# 7 Cooling System Scale

Minerals found in tap water have the tendency of combining with the additives found in automotive coolant. When this happens, they form a chemical complex called “phosphate scale,” which coats the heat transfer surfaces of the radiator and heads, resulting in decreased heat-transfer efficiency. When this occurs, your car will overheat and run much hotter than it was designed to. This scale can also lead to the destruction of water pump bearings.

# 8 Brake Fluid Moisture Contamination

The gradual deterioration of brake fluid over time happens by exposure to heat, pressure, and moisture contamination. As the brake fluid additives deplete, the fluid breaks down at an increased rate, resulting in corrosion of brake parts, poor compressibility and eventual loss of brake function.

# 9 Climate Control Mold

Mildew, mold and spores can inhabit your automotive climate control system. The presence of moisture in air conditioning ducts is common since the air leaving the air conditioner evaporator is saturated with it. Air conditioning used continuously during hot weather provides little time for ducts to dry out. High moisture in ducts can cake with dirt and provide an environment for mold to grow. This situation leads to serious indoor air contamination problems, resulting in symptoms of illness such as headaches, watery eno, nausea, skin disorders and fatigue.

# 10 Battery Corrosion

Slower than normal cranking may be a sign that your battery is holding less than it’s optimal electric charge. Oxidation of the battery terminals and build-up of exterior dirt and corrosion accelerate the loss of current through the case of the battery, thus prematurely discharging it.

All these killers can be caught and put away at Carolina Tire & Auto using quality BG Products and space age technology and equipment for your car, truck or SUV.

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Ft Myers Toyota Sales Rise

On Monday, Toyota reported strong profits for fiscal year 2009 and local Toyota dealers confirm that the Toyota brand is as strong as ever.  Ft. Myers Toyota has seen a steady increase in showroom traffic and sales post Toyota recall.

According to the CNN newswires on May 11th:

"Toyota (TM) reported an annual profit of ¥209 billion ($2.2 billion) over the last year, the company said at a news conference. That figure compares to a loss of ¥437 billion for fiscal year 2008. "

Ft Myers Toyota Sales Momentum

PCG Digital Marketing (PCG) surveyed Toyota dealers in the United States to document  post Toyota recall trends.  The PCG survey data confirmed Toyota 2009 numbers; sales momentum has been strong at local dealers across the United States.

One of the dealerships surveyed, Ft. Myers Toyota in Florida (http://www.fmtoyota.com) , confirmed that sales have continued to rebound from weakness in 2009.

Ft. Myers consumers have confirmed their confidence in the Toyota brand. The temporary setback from the massive recall is old news for car buyers who have rushed to Toyota showrooms across the country to lock in great financing deals offer by Toyota.

According to Vice President Pamela Templeton and a member of Ft Myers Toyota Executive Team:

"Fort Myers Toyota owners are very loyal. Our franchise is known as "The Family Store" and the recall issues did not cause our customers to leave ’the family’. We were able to promptly fix the Toyota cars impacted by the recall and confirm our commitment to local Toyota owners in Florida"

Toyota Showroom Traffic Strong

PCG survey data showed that from Massachusetts to California, Toyota sales are robust. At Carson Toyota in California, sales of new and used Toyota cars are strong.  Carson Toyota can be reach at http://www.carsontoyota.com.

In Litteton Massachusetts, Mike Hills, GM of Acton Toyota commented: " I see a strong demand for Toyota cars in New England. I’m very encouraged to see the strong traffic in our showroom"

So it would seem that the worst for Toyota is over and their quality cars and trucks remain popular with US consumers. This is welcome news for all Toyota franchise locations in the United States.

VoicePulse Joins the Battle Against Breast Cancer

JAMESBURG, NJ -- VoicePulse, Inc. announces that it will be joining the fight against breast cancer by making a donation when customers make a call this Mother's Day weekend. VoicePulse will donate 1¢ per minute for every call made between two VoicePulse residential customers on May 8th and 9th to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

“We've been looking for a way to donate to a good cause while letting our customers participate in the process,” explains Monica Haley, Marketing Associate at VoicePulse. “We thought Mother's Day would be the perfect opportunity to let our customers help fight cancer simply by picking up the phone and calling Mom.”

Calling between VoicePulse customers is free with the America Unlimited Calling plan and the Local Unlimited +200 Calling plan. Call minutes of VoicePulse to VoicePulse residential customers on May 8th and 9th will be tallied and 1 cent for every minute will be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the global leader of the breast cancer movement. VoicePulse customers can log into their Account Center for complete details. For more information about VoicePulse services you can visit www.voicepulse.com, email contact@voicepulse.com or call +1-732-339-5100.

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Spring-Clean your Productivity in 2010 with Nuance

London, United Kingdom, With spring time coming, Nuance Communications, a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, is taking the seasonal change as an opportunity to introduce its Productivity Action Plan. Devised to help increase productivity in the office, below are five Productivity Action Plan steps that employers and employees can take now:

1. Clear your desk of clutter. Documents on your desk that have not been used for a month can be considered clutter. Clear them off the desk and recycle them – they are clearly not needed. If concerned they might come in useful eventually, use document conversion technology, such as Nuance’s PDF Converter® 6, PaperPort® 12 or OmniPage® 17, to convert mountains of paper piles to digital files. Additionally, Nuance’s eCopy ShareScan® also enables office workers to share digital copiers and scanners to turn paper documents into digital information that is integrated into their communication, collaboration, workflow, and business applications. Stored electronically, the miscellaneous reports, presentations and memos that often clutter a desk, are easier to file, quicker to locate, take up less space and less time is needed when searching for them.

2. Work in time slots. Allocate time slots to make, receive and return phone calls, and leave desktop handsets on voice mail the rest of the time. Allocate similar slots for drafting, sending and replying to emails. Being disciplined with phone, email and IMS communication will prevent other priority tasks that need to be completed from being interrupted. For more advice on how to use time at work even more effectively, consider attending a time management course. More information about effective time management can be found at: http://www.tsuccess.dircon.co.uk/timemanagementtips.htm

3. Consider how to control document costs. The money spent on document handling can be a considerable – and hidden - drain on an organisation’s profitability. Each year, organisations waste money on ineffectively managed documents. Save time – and money – by unlocking the data that’s trapped within increasingly common PDF file format documents by using Nuance’s PDF Converter 6, and the free Nuance PDF Reader that’s now available. Costing only a fraction of the price of Adobe Acrobat, the latest version of PDF Converter enables business users to save both time and money by providing cost effective and easy access to data that’s captured within PDF files without having to retype it. This negates the risk of costly typing errors, and an average cost of £200 in labour spent when re-creating documents. Document retrieval is another area where businesses can incur costs through time wasted while searching for documents. In this capacity, Nuance’s eCopy solutions are a valuable tool that helps address this challenge and saves companies money by reducing reliance on hardcopies, by turning paper-based processes into streamlined and efficient electronic workflows.

4. Consider the productivity benefits of using voice recognition technology. An effective and reliable alternative to the keyboard and mouse for entering data is desktop-based voice recognition technology – such as Nuance’s Dragon NaturallySpeaking® 10 software, and MacSpeech Dictate. Desktop speech recognition software enables users to dictate at up to 160 words per minute, which is far more than they can type. This can lead to an immediate improvement in worker productivity, by creating documents more accurately and more quickly. Voice recognition technology can also make the power, performance and communication capabilities of a PC accessible to people with upper-body mobility issues, as it enables them to interface with their PC without having to worry about using the mouse or keyboard. This ensures that they can be just as productive at the desktop as their other colleagues. Critically, in the long term, the technology could also help to reduce the risk of suffering from a desktop workspace-related Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI); with an aging workforce working longer hours, employers should be wary of their legal obligations to their employers under health and safety regulations. More details on how to avoid RSI injuries at the desktop can be found at www.nuance.co.uk.

5. Clean up your Intranet. If a company’s employees need to access the intranet regularly, look at it critically and ask employees’ opinions on how it might be improved to help them access the data and materials they need more quickly. Ensure that the data and information is correct and current, and that if they can’t find what they’re looking for, there’s access to alternative resources that might contain the material they need. Using Nuance’s OmniPage 17, PaperPort 12 and PDF Converter 6, makes it easy to store and file documents and organise them logically, so that those who have the authority to access to the intranet can quickly and easily locate the files or information that they need. Nuance’s eCopy solutions offer a Connector for Microsoft applications, which facilitates the capture, conversion and distribution of paper documents into Microsoft 2007 applications. Using the Nuance’s eCopy Connector for MS SharePoint, paper documents can be scanned at a digital copier or document scanner and sent to specific locations in SharePoint for storage and ongoing document lifecycle management. This makes it easy to ensure that all essential documents feature relevant, up to date documents.

Steven Steenhaut, Sr. Marketing Director EMEA, Nuance Communications, said: “Spring is an ideal time to rethink how you work, and take simple steps to optimise productivity at the desktop. By taking the pragmatic steps outlined in the Productivity Action Plan, this seasonal enthusiasm can be channelled in such a way as to help deliver better results and improved performance.”  

All organisations and professionals can save time and remove the barriers to personal productivity by using Nuance’s award-winning productivity applications, including; Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10, PDF Converter 6 and PDF Reader, OmniPage 17, PaperPort 12 and Nuance’s eCopy solutions . Over 20 million customers - and numerous industry awards – validate the quality and performance of Nuance's personal and professional productivity applications. From desktop scanning, OCR/PDF conversion and personal document management, to eForms, speech recognition and dictation, Nuance products are proven to save users both time and money.

- ENDS –
Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.

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