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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1975-11-05, Page 15WINDSOR, ONtAillo.. ENGINE COOLANT antifreeze has ceased being a loss- leader item in most automotive supply houses. Therefore, to save money when installing a fresh supply, the prudent car owner wants to make certain he puts in enough to pro- tect from freezing or overheating but no more than he absolutely needs. The producers of DowGard have prepared the above chart to guide car owners on proper amounts of the coolant antifreeze for the capacity of his car's cool- ing system. CO OP vet, sHai the Products o keep your Car, Truck or TractOr Running Well All Winter L ar's Is ten Gasolicle , Oil -Bulk or orb the quart From. Oil Filters. most .sizes —.Grease pail. or cartridge Anti-freeze for cooling Windshield Washer Fluid • we like it) knOvi."otir customers' by name! =1,411.0.04eXWe*Cli. Blonde, blue-eyed. r and headod.. for trouble Our heroine, age 15; is saved from potential disaster at roadside cheek point n She was 15, blonde, blue-eyed and headed for trouble. If the above sounds like the beginning of a Grade B liollywood Thriller, at least the locale is correct. The setting was California, but the circumstances were not what one might suppose. The young lady in ques- tion was driving her bright yellow, 1966 Mustang along a highway outside a major California -city. She was ordered by a. state highway patrolman to pull into a roadside vehicle inspection station. That's where her trouble began. First, no license First of all, being under- aged, she had no license to drive the car. (Only the • fact that a front-seat pas- senger was holding a small baby in her lap prevented the police from impound- * Mg the car.) The vehicle itself •was as lethal as a letter Jaomb from a terror- ist. Most of the lugs holding the wheel to the axle were missing. Thus, the paper thin tires were listing at an oblique angle to the road. Shock absorbers weren't functioning, brakes were defective, the exhaust system leaked, lights did not work and the engine was missing practically every emission control element including the air cleaner. In total. 18 violations of safety and anti-emission codes were found. While the random in- spection program respon- sible for the above scene has been dropped by Cal- ifornia .in a budget slish- ing move, results show the need for inspection in that and other states. Safety defects spotted Of the 1,518,698 vehicles checked last year (11.5 per cent of California's total) nearly a million safety de- fects were spotted. In addition 1.2 million cars were checked for emissions and 23 per cent of them exceeded allow- able limits. ' As far as safety was concerned, about half the cars had defective lights, about 15 per cent had noisy or leaky exhausts and another 15 per cent had unsafe tires or wheels. Other common defects • were bad wiper,biatles (84,000), unsafe brakes (36,000) , obstructed glass • (30,000), defective steering (20,000) , and inoperative suspension • (19,000)'. Filet investing. Last July, California be- gan investing all of its vehicle inspection funds in. an emissions check program in the southern part of the state. First phase of the program will be a pilot project in River- ' side County. Eventually six Counties in the Greater Los Angeles area will be included. According to Jack. Dolan who will be supervising the program, "Six coun- ties may not seem like a - lot, but .53 per cent of all cars in the state operate in that area. There are more vehicles (nearly .six million) in those six coun- • ties than in all but a few other states in, the cdun- try.” Dolan added, "The bene- fits of the emission inspec- tion program in California will do more than clean up our air. We,expect that maintenance that will re- sult from keeping emis- sions low will also save enormous amounts of gas- oline." • A COOL CALCULATION ,,,,„.,,„,,,Ani.,,,,,,Nmagq.,...t;p5gFowimilky.T.Rimrc ,:::tint:mw.r4 Puuut:im. • ... . 1 i:, . • .. . *::. : 50% Solution (AVERAGE) ,..• ....r, .. :i:: :::;tie:.M .'. . A i......... . ::::•& ' 3 OT ., ... .. '..: . , . 1 GAL . • •• 5 QT . ... ,.„. .. ... 6 OT ... , ... .'' • . . ................. .:. ...... ,. 7 QT . . .„, .. . ... . 2 GAL -.:9 . 9 QT , . ..::: . ..:: ..... . . , . . . 10 OT .. . . . ..... .. ..... 3 GAL 8i. 010N. .. .. ,:.:.. A ,E. :IN .• . ., .. , :. ...,•• , • • i*ii:f.,,,:t. .2.te r,e .: ;:,................::•.:.::::::.:.:.:.:•.•A . , We've got your A lot of it. I n, .nationwide fuel economy tests, motorists' cars were tested before and after a tune-up. Results showed that a tune-up with new Champion spark plugs saved, on the average, a gallon of gasoline in every tankful. Considering that 3 of every 5 cars on• the road need a tune-up right now, tune-ups alone could save us millions of gallons of gasoline each week. Tun&ups benefit us in other ways, too. Quicker acceleration for safer passing: Dependable starts. Plus a substantial reduction in emissions. See your' mechanic regularly for a Champion tune-up. Once a year or every 10,000 miles. THB BRUSSELS` 'V 1,- NOVEMBER 5i iOtt- J I'