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Test for Combustion Gas in the Coolant

August 28th, 2010

Not every shop has this particular test device (although almost all radiator shops do), but if the balance test and compression test indicated a problem, this test might be called for. A device samples coolant from the radiator with the engine running at high idle, and a test liquid changes color if there are combustion gasses present. If so, it indicates either a crack in the block or head(s), or a blown head gasket. A tester takes a sample from the radiator, and if there are any combustion gasses present (signs of an engine internal problem), the test fluid changes from blue to yellow.

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Check the Cylinder Compression

August 24th, 2010

If the cylinder balance test indicated there might be an internal mechanical problem, the spark plugs are removed and a pressure gauge is inserted into each spark plug hole, one cylinder at at time. When the engine is cranked for a few seconds, the gauge registers the compression developed, and can precisely indicate weak cylinders in terms of leaky valves, worn rings or a blown head gasket. A cylinder compression check is performed with a gauge threaded into the spark plug hole – your mechanic will test all the cylinders, looking for one or more with low compression, indicating major mechanical problems.

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Mitsubishi MR

August 21st, 2010

For 2010, Mitsubishi molded a more upscale MR Touring vehicle of the Evolution, which gave me an excuse to take a fresh look at this special car.

Listing for almost $48,000 as I sampled it, with a $2,000 navigation package, the MR is an expensive ride, especially considering its roots as a compact economy of the Lancer, which starts under $16,000 – all that Mitsubishi is a troubled brand, with sagging sales and market share.

And, while the MR is well equipped for that money, there are two glaring omissions. One is full adjustability of the Recaro front bucket seats. There’s no way to raise or lower them, to adjust the himbar support or to modify the angle of the bottom cushion – features available in cars costing half the price. The driver’s seat is a bad place to cheap out in a serious driver’s car. Second, the steering wheel tilts but does not telescope, as do those in many cheaper cars.

Another thing to keep in mind: This is a performance sedan, so lots of engine, driveline and tire noise get into its cabin. Expect fuel economy averaging only in the high teens on most trips.

If you’re comfortable behind the wheel, you will love driving this car and will find those Recaros pleasantly firm and supportive. Zero to 60 miles per hour is said to take about five seconds.

Mitsubishi suggests swapping all-season or winter tires for the standard 245/40R18 Yokohama ADVAN rubber. I sampled this car during winter and can tell you from firsthand.It gets an almost perfect rating from the U.S. government for protection of occupants in crashes – five stars for the driver in a frontal or side crash but four for the passenger. The U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety calls it “good” in frontal and side protection.

Consumer Reports publishes no reliability ratings for the Lancer, but J.D. Power and Associates calls its quality and reliability below average.

Three Lancer Evolution models are available – all with the same engine and with all-wheel drive. Cheapest is a GSR starting at $41,498 with a five-speed stick shift. An MR has the same six-speed twin-clutch automated manual I sampled, along with Bilstein shocks and Eibach springs, two-piece front brake rotors for better heat dissipation, BBS forged-alloy wheels, high intensity discharge headlamps and additional interior features.

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The Sportback Ralliart

August 17th, 2010

The Sportback Ralliart is an exalted version of Mitsubishi’s pleasant Lancer compact. A hatchback body accounts for the Sportback part of its name, while a 237-horsepower, 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine, all-wheel drive, a dual-clutch transmission and racy styling tweaks justify the Ralliart badge.

The Sportback Ralliart competes with compact performance cars like the Audi A3, Honda Civic Si, Subaru WRX and Volkswagen GTI. With a base price of $33,698, it costs more than the less-powerful front-drive Civic Si and GTI, but compares favourably to the all-wheel drive and WRX.

The Sportback’s hatchback body style increases cargo space 1.5 cubic feet versus the Lancer sedan, to 13.8 cubic feet with the rear seat up and 47 cubic feet with the seat folded flat. The Sportback has more cargo space than the Civic Si, and WRX, but less than the GTI and A3.

The car’s sloping fastback profile gets a goofy little spoiler as part of the Ralliart appearance package. Other visual cues distinguishing the Ralliart include a bold rectangular grille, unique bumpers and a bulging aluminum hood that features two cooling vents. The car’s wide C-pillars reduce visibility.

The Ralliart’s mechanical components deliver on the racy promise its styling makes. The 2.0-litre turbocharged engine rumbles with a satisfying growl. It delivers nearly all its 253 pound-feet of torque from 2,500 rpm to 4,700 rpm that broad power band produces strong, immediate acceleration.

The engine has a bit more vibration than is ideal. Road noise is minimal, in spite of the grippy Yokohama summer tires on the car I tested.

The Sportback Ralliart’s 12.2 city/8.0 highway fuel economy doesn’t match less-powerful clutch six-speed transmission. The transmission has two modes: sport and normal. I preferred normal, which provided smooth, fast shifts. Sport mode makes the shifts quicker, but a little jarring. The transmission has manual and fully automatic modes.

The full-time all-wheel-drive system can send up to 50 percent of the engine’s torque to either the front or rear axle. It provides excellent control in hard acceleration and quick turns.

The suspension keeps the car stable and level in enthusiastic manoeuvres. The ride is a little bumpy, but that’s a small price to pay for the Ralliart’s excellent handling.

The steering is quick and firm. Like the ride, steering effort will be too sporty for some. The car I tested had the Premium Recaro option package. It included a powerful 710-watt Rockford-Fosgate sound system, but the Recaro sport seats were a disappointment. They had the brand’s signature sporty, scooped-out shape, but lacked some basic features like height adjustment.

The interior is functional, with clear gauges and simple controls. The car needs more interior storage. The bin in the centre console is too small to be much use, and the cupholders are too shallow to hold drinks securely.

The instrument cluster includes a message centre that flashes “See you” when you shut the engine off. It’s another pleasantly goofy feature in a car that looks and sounds different from every angle.

Mere oddity is not a virtue, of course. If it were, there’d be statues of the Edsel and Aztek. Oddity that creates a unique, fast and fun little car, though…that’s a public service.

The Lancer Sportback Ralliart isn’t for everybody. That’s part of the sporty little hatchback’s considerable charm.

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The Future of Automobiles

August 13th, 2010

San Jose, Calif.- Electric vehicles are no longer a technology of the future. Americans will be driving the Nissan Leaf and Coda Sedan by the end of the year, and several other automakers have all-electric and plug-in hybrid models in the pipeline.

Now the race is on to build electric vehicle charging stations, where drivers can pull up and plug in their cars. Several California companies, including Coulomb Technologies in Campbell, Better Place in Palo Alto and Clipper Creek in Auburn, see enormous opportunity in the development of electric-vehicle infrastracture.

“Now that the world has decided this is a business, everyone wants in,” said Richard Lowenthal, Coulomb’s co-founder and CEO, who first drove an electric car when he served as mayor of Cupertino, Calif. “We need charging stations. That’s our business.”

Electric cars currently can travel only a limited number of kilometers before the batteries need to be recharged, leading to what is known in the industry as range anxiety. And while most owners are expected to charge their vehicles overnight at home, some apartment-dwellers and others may not have that convenience.

“People are scared to death of getting stranded on the highway and not knowing what to do. You can’t call a friend and say, ‘Can you bring me a gallon of gas?’ “said Jason Rissanen, a partner in Deloitte’s clean-tech practice who focuses on electric cars. “This is an emerging market, and people naturally want a buffer range.”

There are two solutions to range anxiety: better batteries and charging stations. Coulomb is creating charging stations that are far more than parking poles with electricity. The company’s ChargePoint Network includes features like trip planning and an iPhone application that gives directions to available charging stations. The idea is drivers will sign up for a monthly ChargePoint Network pass and can swipe a card to pay for charging sessions.

Coulomb currently has 136 ChargePoint stations installed in the United States. The charging stations are essentially an extension of the so-called smart electric grid and are able to communicate with one another and with the utilities through sophisticated software.

Daniel Ahn, a partner at Voyager Capital and an investor who sits on Coulomb’s board, said many venture capitalists in Silicon Valley have poured money into companies like Tesla Motors, which makes electric cars, without thinking of the infrastructure needed to support them.

“If you look at the EV space, you’ve got the cars themselves, and the batteries,” Ahn said. “Coulomb has a broad vision around networked energy, and the ‘Aha!’ moment for me was thinking about the network effect.”

The company, which was founded in 2007, raised $14 million in second round venture funding earlier this year and has 60 employees.

Better Place, which has received a lot of publicity around its concept of battery-switching stations, is also working on a network of charge spots for workplaces and public parking lots.

“Most of these cars are getting in the 160-kilometer range, and if you have a ubiquity of charge-spot coverage, most people will be able to ‘top off,’ or recharge enough to get to their destination,” said Better Place representative Julie Mullins. “Battery switching is really for the longer drive.”

Better Place already has 1,000 charge spots in Israel, its key market so far. This summer, the nascent U.S. electric-vehicle infrastructure will expand. Arizona, California, Tennesee, Oregon and Washington are all part of the Department of Energy funded EV Project, which hopes to glean how electric vehicles perform in different climates. The $100-million federal stimulus grant will allow more than 11,000 charging stations including more than 6,000 public charging stations, to be installed in test cities. San Diego is the only California City currently part of the EV Project, but that may change.

More than 7,000 people have paid $99 to reserve an all-electric Nissan Leaf, and customers should be driving them by the end of the year. Nissan thinks most Leaf customers will buy and install a home charging station or dock, but the automaker is eager to see public stations as well.

“Rome was not built in a day, and the integration of EVs and charging stations will not happen overnight, either,” said Nissan representative Tim Gallagher. “But in our judgment, between home and public stations, most customers will have the peace of mind they need.” Some current electric-vehicle drivers think the focus on charging stations is overblown.

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General Motors Will Pay Restructuring its Opel and Vauxhall

August 9th, 2010

Detroit – General Motors says it will pay for restructuring its Opel and Vauxhall operations itself, withdrawing applications for more than US$2.2 billion in aid from European governments a week after Germany rejected the Detroit automaker’s request.

Last week’s announcement ends what had become a never-ending soap opera for GM’s European operations.

A year ago, as GM’s U.S. operations entered bankruptcy, it looked likely that a majority stake in Opel would be sold off to a group led by Ontario-based autoparts supplier Magna.

But that deal was shelved in November once GM’s new board of directors got up to speed with the business. They thought losing Opel would be a bad strategic decision for GM. The automaker then sought aid from European countries.

England and Spain were on board with helping GM, but the automaker all along has faced resistance in Germany, where the company was seeking the bulk of the money because of its large footprint in that nation.

Earlier this month, Germany’s federal government rejected GM’s request for 1.1 billion euros (about US$1.3 billion) in loan guarantees.

“I am convinced that GM has sufficient funds,” German Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle said at the time, according to The Associated Press.

Nick Reilly, president of GM Europe, told reporters that Opel’s needs remain unchanged and that money for restructuring will come from GM.

GM had already committed 1.9 billion euros and will now have to come up with another 1.4 billion euros, which is about 400 million euros less than the aid being sought because GM doesn’t believe it needs the same kind of cushion that had been requested by the governments.

“The decision of the German government…was disappointing and means that the conclusion of these guarantees is again likely to be months away,” Reilly said in a statement.

“To be clear, our funding needs have not changed and that loan guarantees made available to other European companies under the EU program to help offset the impact of the global economic crisis would be equally available to Opel/Vauxhall. But after a very long process defined by governments, this has turned out not to be the case.”

GM’s negotiating position was likely weakened by its May announcement that the automaker turned a first-quarter net profit of US$865 million, the first profitable quarter since 2007.

While that was good news for GM, the profits were largely driven by cost cuts, explosive sales in Asia and a rebounding U.S. auto market.

European operations continued to drag down GM’s performance with a US$506-million loss in the first quarter. The European auto market is struggling this year, with industry sales expected to decline eight percent.

Reilly reiterated that GM doesn’t expect Opel to be profitable until next year.

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Full-Sized Sedans Under $40,000

August 1st, 2010

WHAT WE DISLIKED:

The lower-end model doesn’t handle like a charm with such a soft as a marshmallow suspension, and there’s a whole lot of shaking going on.
Steering is terribly over-assisted, so it robs the driver of any real feel for the road and it’s far too volatile, so driving is no quiet Sunday picnic.
Brakes could be a heck of a lot firmer and more reliable, stops stretch out like a lazy cat, linings don’t hold up too well to intensive use. Besides, ABS doesn’t get rid of all those little jumps and jolts and the pedal is inaccurate and gets really stiff on emergency stops.
Seats on the SE model aren’t as well anything to write home about, they sure aren’t as cushy as those on the SSE. They’re nowhere near as nicely contoured or upholstered.
The seat adjustment controls and dials located on the steering wheel on the SSE models can be pretty confusing.
Some exterior design details on the SSEi are exaggerated and overdone.
Some trim items aren’t the cat’s meow, like the cheap-looking imitation wood and plastic on the dashboard that looks like it was salvaged from a fire sale.
The transmission doesn’t provide enough braking effect when gearing down manually and it isn’t easy to change gears either because the shifter located under the steering wheel is too short and wishy washy.
To be improved upon: inconveniently located storage compartments, a shifter that’s a real pain and some poorly designed controls.

VERDICT:

The Bonneville SE is a nice, affordable family car compared to similar Buick and Oldsmobile models, but the SSE and, of course, the SSEi package are more spiffy and stylish and they’re gustier and more civilized all-round.

NEW FOR 1998:

The (4T65-E) upgraded transmission paired with both V6 engines.
Three new exterior shades and a new cabin interior shade.
Standard rear spoiler on the SE model.
Richer base equipment on the SSE model, including an 8-speaker Bose sound system and eyecue head-up display.

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Full-Sized Sedans Under $40,000

July 29th, 2010

Sensitive suspension and wheels go wild on even the tiniest bumps on the road.
Steering is over-assisted, so it’s terribly light and touchy at higher speeds and so the driver doesn’t have a clue as to the feel of the road and besides, it’s awfully inaccurate at the center.
Brakes only offer average grip and those stretching stops and cantankerous linings are the proof. The primitive ABS doesn’t help much when it comes to smooth stops, far from it, there are a lot of jerks and jolts. The brake pedal is hard to apply properly and seems to have a mind of its own: it’s generally Jello-like, but it gets stiff as a frozen drumstick on emergency stops.
Seats on the base 88 model aren’t as well designed as those on the LS, especially in regard to the rear seatbench that’s much flatter.
The outward view is only fair due to low-slung seats, high body frame, thick roof supports and rearview mirrors that are in the way, even if they’re small as postage stamps.
The optional suspension on the LS can sure be unkind to passengers, it’s firmer and doesn’t let a single bump go by unnoticed.
Some trim materials aren’t too nice, like the imitation wood appliques and the God-awful plastic on the dashboard. And to top things off, fit isn’t as tight and clean for some items, which isn’t the case on some of the more recent model cars.
To be improved upon: inconvenient storage compartments that are scarce as hens’ teeth and poorly located, a floor shifter that’s hard to adjust just right and some controls that aren’t ergonomic.

VERDICT:

The 88 may not have the Bonneville or the LeSabre’s charisma, but it’s nonetheless a respectable, American luxury car. It’s reliable and reasonably priced, considering its size and rich equipment, which makes of it a nice and big, comfortable vehicle that gets you around in style at quite an affordable price.

NEW FOR 1998:

More refined ABS sensors that improve performances.
Two new exterior shades and a new cabin interior shade.

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Compact Sedans from $15000 to $17500

July 25th, 2010

Prices are pretty steep for models built in North America, especially given their poor reliability record. This is all the more true for the Golf GTI and the Jetta GLX who sure don’t look like they’re anything special. With such nondescript looks, why pay the the ticket price and such cars aren’t really up to par with serious carmaker standards. On the other models, the supple suspension generates a lot of sway, which makes the car go into understeer.
The 4-cylinder engine performances are really pretty awful, accelerations and pickup are terribly lethargic with the 2.0L engine and they’re even more lazy with the base 1.8L so-called powerplant.
Noise and vibration come at you from everywhere. The engine roar and powertrain rattle and roll sure wear you in a hurry.
The manual shifter is sticker and stubborn at first and it loses its accuracy as soon as you put a certain number of kilometers on the vehicle.

LOW MARKS:

The Golf GTI and Jetta GLX are a handful and are really hard to keep on the road, so inexperienced drivers shouldn’t even get to hold the set of car keys. Torque really affects steering and the syrupy suspension makes the car really unstable. The body and suspensions aren’t sturdy enough to be able to receive a powerful V6 engine. This rough demeanor and directional instability make driving even more precarious on slippery roads, so you have to be extremely cautious.

VERDICT:

VW sales keep dropping in Quebec, a region where this company makes about half its Canadian sales. Its popularity has melted like snow under a Mexican sun and after testing a recent model, we understand why. Until the next generation arrives, and hopefully a better quality line-up, we recommend that buyers look elsewhere.

NEW FOR 1998:

Some new equipment items and design touches.
New exterior shades.
Optional side-impact airbags.

Note: Information concerning the 1998 models wasn’t sent to us on time by the automaker, so we claim no responsibility for any errors or omissions.

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