Used Car Warranties: Which Used Car Should I Buy?
Back “in the day”, the word most frequently associated with used cars was “lemon”, not warranty. Any type of guarantees or warranties for a used vehicle was unheard of. With the passage of consumer protection laws and an educated consumer base, you can now purchase a used vehicle with a great deal more confidence then in days of yore.
With that reassurance in mind, which manufacturer’s used car is the best bet? Auto Warranties.com will help answer that question by regularly featuring vehicles that have been noted for their features, quality and longevity in the world of used cars.
If you are in the market for an economy car, the Honda Civic comes well recommended.
“For years, it’s been the Civic and Toyota’s Corolla fighting for the title of best economy car. Both are wise choices from a strictly utilitarian point of view; they’re frugal with fuel, require minimal maintenance and are reliable. That said, the Civic gets our vote because it offers a few things that the Corolla line lacks: a sportier driving feel, a coupe body style in addition to a sedan and, in 1999, 2000 and 2004, an Si version of the coupe that boasts a sizzling 160-horsepower inline four and a taut handling-biased suspension.”
from Edmunds.com
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January 29th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
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February 21st, 2010 at 10:50 pm
i have a problem with my internal HDD. When this all happened, i was playing a game online. I got a Virus Worm and i shut down my computer and reformatted my HDD and put windows back on. I had a secondary HDD in for back-up purposes. so got windows in and put everything back, but i then noticed that my computers performance went down drastically with my main HDD, I could not copy anything i had onto the back-up drive and once i did it was so slow to copy the file. Once i had all the files on the back-up drive, i decided to start from the back-up drive with windows. Same applied. It was really slow with the reading-and-writing. i decided to take the secondary back-up drive out and boot from the main HDD. Everything seemed to be running smoothly i checked the main HDD Temperature with HD tune. The drives temp was 37 degrees Celsius, and the drive went to normal temperature of 43-44 degrees Celsius. I then decided to plug in the secondary HDD and leave it on for a day. the temperature went from 43-44 degrees to 47-48 degrees Celsius. So my guess is that the HDD drives are getting way to hot, and i am getting what seems like bad sectors in the drive, but it has never done this before. I have always had my back-up drive in ever since i got my main HDD. I can’t place my finger on what is wrong with my drives. Once the main HDD is lower temperatures the drive seems to be performing better. but its normal temperature is 43-44 degrees Celsius and i still have some problems with reading and writing then. Can someone tell me what has happened please. I dont know if it was from the worm virus or if the temperatures are getting too hot (but has never done this before) can someone tell me what to do. I have changed the line leading into the motherboard as well, and that seems to have no effect. i even swapped the board lines between the CD drives and the HDD drives, no effect on that either. can someone tell me what is going on, i have ran out of options. santoramaa