DIY Mechanic: Car Repair on the Cheap - Tips for buying Used Cars ...

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?The magnitude of do-it-yourself automotive repair is on the rise. Increasingly more American drivers own cars whose warranties have expired, and the perils of the current economic state have forced them to rethink what was once a routine trip to the mechanic. Such auto shops now charge between $50 and $100 per hour for labor, not including the cost of parts. Fewer and fewer drivers are willing to pay so much for repairs, often suspicious of garage?s desire to earn money at the expense of their vehicle. Faced with these challenges, it?s only natural that the DIY craze spill into the car repair community.

True, the extent of technology present in many of today?s automobiles may frighten would-be weekend repair hobbyists. Yet the pricey alternative of the auto shop instantly dispels this fear, sending many a motorist on a mission to manage their vehicle?s well-being for herself.
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Speaking of ?her,? it should be known that the do-it-yourself movement is galvanizing women, inspiring them to take up the reins of auto repair that their counterparts in earlier decades unthinkingly handed off to the men. More than one third of all DIY enthusiasts, including those who concentrate on car repair, are female, according to Road and Travel Magazine. This enlightening statistic appears alongside a boom in the visibility of automotive women; ?The Car Chick, aka LeeAnn Shattuck, headlines America?s Garage Radio Show, dispensing DIY wisdom to modern day manifestations of Rosie the Riveter.

Today?s DIYers of both genders can best begin their repair experience with small jobs, such as refilling the brake fluid or changing the windshield wiper. Before upgrading to the next level in DIY car repair ? changing the car?s oil ? some precautions should be heeded. Safety glasses and gloves should always be worn to help prevent crises, for example. Fully reading a car?s manual before starting a repair job is also highly recommended. Fortunately, several great manual brands are now available online.

Websites such as Haynes, Chilton DIY and 10w40 can support those who dare to take on automobile challenges by themselves. Chilton?s website offers a comprehensive range of detailed repair manuals for vehicles dating back to 1940. Everything is covered, from the instrument panel to firing orders in the engine?s electronic schematics. Mind you, however, some detailed experience with mechanic work is required to effectively parse and implement the suggestions made in the manuals; it?s not a paint-by-numbers operation. Those who are unsure of themselves under the hood should take to 10w40?s ?Ask the Mechanic? offering, chock full of important repair concerns that range in complexity from everyday concerns to esoteric vintage demands.

DIY guys and gals should temper their confidence with a sense for when heading to the mechanic is actually the wiser, or cheaper, decision. Checking with several local auto shops in advance can provide knowledge as to the practicality of a DIY job. In addition, one of those shops might offer daily specials on some repair jobs, like oil changes or car battery replacements, which could cost less money than completing those same jobs as a DIYer. (Hint: sign up for online local deal programs, such as Groupon and Living Social, which frequently surprise their members with nearby values on car needs.)

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There are also several types of jobs that should never be performed outside the auspices of a qualified mechanic. These include such heavy duty operations as replacing the engine or the transmission, which involve cumbersome components, highly specialized tools (often unavailable to the general public), and years of expertise and practice to perform correctly. Other DIY-no-no?s: clutch replacement, A/C replacement, and wheel alignment. All of these are dangerous or produce toxic substances which demand certified technician work.

All this said, DIY folk can rejoice at the impressive array of repairs that are very much within their grasp. Replacing worn spark plugs yourself, AskMen reports, costs less than $25, creating an overall savings of nearly $75 compared to what a mechanic would charge. Headlight bulb and fuse replacement are also relatively simple and big on savings.

The Internet is the DIY car repair connoisseur?s ultimate resource. HowStuffWorks, for instance, provides a comprehensive work-through of many repair jobs tailor-made for the DIY aesthetic, include spark plug replacement and power steering flush. Popular Mechanics also provides a serious education in the important topic of the Controller Area Network, which is the computing system in most cars, as well as On-Board Diagnostics (OBD), programming which helps owners diagnose their vehicles ? critical learning for effective do-it-yourself work.

Ultimately, DIYers should harness this gamut of resources ? including their nearby mechanics ? in order to foster the knowledge and conversations that keep cars running smoothly. Repairing your car by yourself is all the more gratifying when empowered by the specific information needed to get the job done right.

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Risk Management Planning: 25 Quick Tips To Get Started Pt. 4 ...

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This is the fourth installment of five blog posts that summarize the 25 quick tips from my eBook, ?Insurance Premiums Are Killing My Business.?? This risk management ebook is a great start for small to medium-sized business owners that are curious about starting the risk management planning process.

The tips below have been written with small to medium-sized businesses in mind, although the?same principles should be employed by very large businesses.

Click here if you want to review risk management tips 1 ? 5? before going on.

Click here to read risk management tips 6 ? 10.??

Or, click here to read risk management quick tips 11 ? 15.

The tips below have been written with small to medium-sized businesses in mind, although the?same principles should be employed by very large businesses.

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16. Implement and follow formal written policies.

Policies and procedures are a very?effective way to defend against claims and lawsuits. Policies must be strictly followed to be effective.?Risk Management eBook

17. Transfer risk by using waivers and hold harmless agreements.

The legal effect varies, and there are no guarantees, but if properly worded, these can deflect and transfer liability. Always get legal advice on the wording of waivers and hold harmless agreements.

18. Develop and implement a Business Continuity Plan (BCP).

A well thought out and practiced BCP will greatly improve the odds that your business will survive a catastrophe or shutdown. Free industry specific business continuity procedures are available through ClearRisk.

19. Keep all old insurance policies and certificates.

Policies and certificates are your proof that coverage existed. They are very valuable; some losses aren?t discovered for many years after they occur.

20. Sell yourself to your insurer at every opportunity.

Most businesses have positive attributes that are not known by their insurer. Many have policies, procedures, practices and other features that insurers would look upon favorably, if they were aware of them. So don?t keep them to yourself, use them to your advantage! Through ClearRisk, you can print a formal risk management plan to easily show your insurer how you are protecting your assets though risk mitigation.

Although insurance and claims represent a large percentage of a business?s expenses, many business owners know very little about the area. You don?t have to simply accept it and pay the bill, you can do something to downsize your risk and save money!?My hope is that these risk management tips will educate business owners on how to reduce their risk-related costs.

These tips and more are?covered in the full risk management eBook,??Insurance Premiums Are Killing My Business.???It can be found for free on the?ClearRisk?site, along with other helpful?risk management whitepapers.

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A Fun DIY Science Goodie: The Behavioral Economics of Agreement (And Why Negotiations Fail)

Why do people have such a hard time reaching a compromise? Blame fairness.

Image: Flickr/EdwardDalmulder, cc license

Image: Flickr/EdwardDalmulder, cc license

That was the message of behavioral economist George Loewenstein of Carnegie Mellon University when I interviewed him for my book, Brain Trust. In many types of negotiations, he says, ?People aren?t trying to get the maximum payoff, they?re just trying to get what they see as fair.? And if there?s wiggle room in what?s fair, parties on opposing sides are likely to wiggle toward opinions of fairness that are personally beneficial, eventually entrenching like four-hundred-pound sumo wrestlers staring each other down across the ring.

Loewenstein offers the following example: Imagine you and I are splitting twenty poker chips. When all?s said and done, each chip you?re holding will be worth five dollars and each chip I?m holding will be worth twenty dollars (ha!). Now we have to negotiate how to split the twenty chips.

What do you think is fair? Maybe you propose keeping sixteen chips and giving me four. That way, we each get eighty dollars. That?s fair.

But wait ? the chips are worth more to me than they are to you! What are you going to do with a measly eighty dollars? If I keep all the chips I?ll have four hundred dollars. Now that?s worth something. Certainly you can see it?s better to squeeze the most out of the system, even if you don?t happen to be the beneficiary this time, right?

This is an example of a self-serving bias ? your idea of fairness is influenced by what?s best for you. But there?s still hope for agreement. If the top range of my fairness overlaps the bottom range of your fairness, there?s shared territory for a deal. But if I?m only willing to give eight chips max, and you?re only willing to accept twelve chips min, then we?re at loggerheads. In this case, Loewenstein explains, ?People are frequently willing to incur a loss rather than take what they see as an unfair payoff.?

In other words, we?d rather burn money than share with a cheater. No deal.

To see if self-serving bias jumps the confines of abstract poker chip games, Loewenstein and his colleague Linda Babcock sent letters to all the school board presidents (on one side) and heads of teachers? unions (on the other) in Pennsylvania. The letters asked the boards or unions to make a fair list of the nearby towns that are comparable to their own ? like valuing a house, salaries in comparable districts help negotiators set teacher salaries in a target district. Loewenstein and Babcock found that the school board heads consistently listed towns with low teacher salaries, while the heads of teachers? unions consistently listed towns with high teacher salaries.

Which towns were fairly comparable? Well, whichever ones allowed school board presidents to propose lower salaries or union heads to propose higher ones. And generating lists with little overlap was a strong predictor of an eventual strike.

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Image: Flickr/RoberBlackwell, cc license

So if you believe you?re on the fair side of the fence and I believe I?m on the other fair side of the fence, and between these fences is a gaping demilitarized zone, what?s the negotiation solution? ?Well,? says Loewenstein, ?we did a lot of research trying to debias it.? How can you remove this pesky self-serving bias? Nix writing an essay about the other side?s point of view. It didn?t work. Having both sides list the holes in their own case helped a bit.

But check this out: Rather than trying to diffuse self-serving bias, Loewenstein recommends using it to create a solution ? the stronger the bias, the better. That?s because a strong bias can blind combatants to the idea that a third party could see it any way but their own.

It?s not just that I would like at least eight poker chips, but that I believe the abstract idea of fairness is certain to award me at least these eight chips. And you?re equally certain you?ll get at least the twelve chips at the bottom end of your fairness scale. So we?re both happy to let a fair third party make the call, both blithely confident that the outcome will be the one we want. Self-serving bias makes us both likely to agree to arbitration.

When you notice a demilitarized zone between the two fences of entrenched parties, rather than trying to nudge these fences closer together ? toward the shared space of agreement?let them stand apart. And pick an arbitrator to split the difference. We?re likely to be equally surprised when this impartial third party awards us ten chips each, but you gotta admit it?s fair.

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Eel market sizzles as prices hit $2k/lb in Maine

In this photo made Thursday, March 23, 2012, Bruce Steeves uses a lantern while dip netting for elvers on a river in southern Maine. Elvers are young, translucent eels that are born in the Sargasso Sea and swim to freshwater lakes and ponds where they grow to adults before returning to the sea. Adult eels are sold for food in Asia.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

In this photo made Thursday, March 23, 2012, Bruce Steeves uses a lantern while dip netting for elvers on a river in southern Maine. Elvers are young, translucent eels that are born in the Sargasso Sea and swim to freshwater lakes and ponds where they grow to adults before returning to the sea. Adult eels are sold for food in Asia.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

In this photo made Thursday, March 23, 2012, Bruce Steeves uses a lantern while dip netting fort elvers on a river in southern Maine. Elvers are young, translucent eels that are born in the Sargasso Sea and swim to freshwater lakes and ponds where they grow to adults before returning to the sea. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

In this photo made Thursday, March 23, 2012, Bruce Steeves uses a lantern while dip netting fort elvers on a river in southern Maine. Elvers are young, translucent eels that are born in the Sargasso Sea and swim to freshwater lakes and ponds where they grow to adults before returning to the sea. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

In this photo made Thursday, March 23, 2012, a buyer squeezes water from a net of elver while emptying a tank on the back of fisherman's truck in Portland, Maine. The baby eels are fetching the fishermen more than $2,000 per pound this year. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

In this photo made Thursday, March 23, 2012, elver fishermen set up a fyke net on the bank of river in southern Maine. The baby eels are fetching the fishermen more than $2,000 per pound this year. They are sold to the Asian market where they are grown to adults. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

(AP) ? Tiny translucent elvers ? alien-looking baby eels the size of toothpicks, with big black eyes and spines ? are mysterious creatures, floating thousands of miles from their birthplace in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean before ending up each spring in Maine's rivers and streams.

But there's no mystery about what's drawing hundreds of fishermen to riverbanks to catch the creatures during the two-month fishing season. The price of the eels has skyrocketed to unparalleled levels, with catches bringing up to $2,000 a pound.

A worldwide shortage of the prized dinner fare, imported in infancy from Maine to Asia to be raised in farm ponds, has buyers paying top dollar for the baby American eels. A pound of eels should be worth around $30,000 on the open market once grown to market size, according to one dealer.

Elver prices go up and down all the time, but nobody's seen them shoot up the way they have over the past two seasons. Last year, at $891 per pound, elvers became Maine's fourth most-valuable wild fishery, worth more than well-known traditional fisheries such as groundfish, shrimp and scallops.

With this year's astronomical prices, fishermen and dealers are on edge about poachers, fishermen's safety, the secrecy of fishing spots and unwanted publicity. On top of all that, there's a move to have the eels protected by the Endangered Species Act.

Pre-season rumors had the price starting at $2,000 a pound, said longtime fisherman Bruce Steeves of Raymond, as he prepared his nets on a southern Maine river for a night of eel fishing on the season's opening day, March 22.

"And there's a prediction it'll go up from that. At $2,500 a pound, that's almost $1 per elver," Steeves said. "This is almost like liquid gold."

Steeves, like most elver fishermen, swings his hand-held "dip net" ? something like a butterfly net with fine mesh ? through the water for hours, standing on the riverbank as the tide comes in to capture the eels as they swim upstream. He also works another fine-mesh net shaped like a big funnel and set in the river, catching more of the eels as they ride in with the tide.

Steeves works when the tides are coming in, meaning he's as likely to be working at 3 in the morning as 3 in the afternoon. He says fishermen typically might harvest a half pound to 2 pounds a day.

There are records of a commercial elver fishery in the U.S. dating back to at least the 1880s, but nowadays only two states allow it.

South Carolina allows fishing on just the Cooper River, and issues only 10 permits annually, seven of which are held by Mainers this year, said Allan Hazel of the state Division of Natural Resources. Hazel's getting calls this year from people in Korea, Taiwan, Japan and elsewhere, seeking to get in touch with fishermen and elver dealers.

But Maine is the elver breadbasket, so to speak, with 407 license holders who fish 525 nets in streams and rivers along the state's long ragged coast, working with the tides night and day.

Steeves, 56, catches lobsters from June until October, fishes for bait fish from October through the winter, and catches elvers this time of year.

He remembers the late 1990s, when the price shot up to more $200 a pound, creating a gold rush mentality that had fishermen competing for and even duking it out over prime fishing spots. In the peak year, more than 2,300 people held licenses, fishing nearly 6,000 nets.

But the price tumbled to under $30 a pound in the early 2000s, making it hardly worth fishing for them. In 2001, the fishery was worth a piddling $40,000.

Prices yo-yoed in recent years before soaring to last year's eye-popping levels because of an elver shortage in Europe and Japan, said Mitchell Feigenbaum, owner of South Shore Trading Co., which has an elver buying station in Portland. Fishermen last year harvested about 8,500 pounds at an average of $891 a pound ? for a total value of $7.6 million.

With this year's catch bringing even higher prices, some fishermen staked out key fishing spots weeks ahead of time. Asian buyers have been showing up at some rivers in the dead of night, paying cash for elvers on the spot.

Not surprisingly, law enforcement officers have seen a dramatic increase in illegal activity and have issued summonses coast-wide for illegal fishing, even before the season started. Just last week, Maine Gov. Paul LePage signed emergency legislation that levies $2,000 fines and license suspensions for illegal elver fishing or tampering with other people's gear.

Maine Marine Patrol Maj. Alan Talbot isn't surprised people are taking risks for a shot at the lucrative eels.

"At that price, people are going to take the chance to do it illegally and sell them because it's big money," Talbot said.

After Steeves harvests the creatures, he puts them in a bucket and takes them to a buyer on the Portland waterfront who strains the writhing catch to remove debris and dead eels, squeezes out the water and weighs the catch. The eels are then dumped into a holding tank of water before they're packed into Styrofoam boxes and put on planes destined for buyers in China and elsewhere in Asia, where they will be grown to market size in farm ponds.

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is now reviewing whether to list the eels as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. A 2007 review found that federal protection wasn't warranted.

Steeves has never eaten eel, but he's been told they're delicious. Once grown, the eels are sold for unagi kabayaki, a grilled eel dish.

"They must really love them over there to pay what they pay for them," he said. "It's funny how they'll pay for things expensive over there and over here we laugh at this stuff."

Paul Firminger, manager for South Shore Trading's Portland operation, said the eels have mild and tender white meat, no bones to speak of and skin that peels off easily.

"It's like a cross between chicken and mackerel," he said.

Associated Press

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Sprint begins employee training for Galaxy Nexus, launch looks imminent

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First it appeared in a slipped ad, and then on The Engadget Show during CES. More recently, Sprint's variant of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was spotted coasting through the FCC, and now it's practically a lock to launch between three and six weeks from now. We've received word that Sprint has initiated employee training specifically for the Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0, which will enlighten staff on the benefits of the handset, ICS and Google Wallet. Those involved with the training have to wrap things up within the next fortnight, leading us to believe that it'll make its way into retail outlets in late April or early May. In related news, the coursework also makes mention of enabling LTE on a heretofore unannounced "LG Fury" -- presumably not to be confused with the similarly titled handset from ZTE. Unfortunately, details beyond the name on that guy are nowhere to be found, but we'll be digging for more in the days ahead.

Update: We've since stumbled upon a full slide deck of the training guide, and while there's nothing too surprising here, we are seeing that early units will ship with LTE turned off by default, though the company will change that at an undetermined time in the future. Call us crazy, but it sounds like Sprint may start hawking these prior to its LTE network being fully active.

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Why it makes sense for Sprint to launch the Galaxy Nexus with LTE turned off by default

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There's something sadly funny about seeing training docs for the Sprint Samsung Galaxy Nexus, nearly half a year after its initial launch in the rest of the world. But that's where we stand today, as Engadget's gotten its hands on some internal Sprint materials showing employees how to sell the thing. There's not much in the way of anything to tell you ?when? it's coming, but obviously training's a pretty big step toward launch.

The one interesting thing we see is that LTE won't be turned on by default. On one hand, it suggests that Sprint's LTE network might not actually be up and running when the Sprint GNex launches.

But consider this: Even if Sprint were to flip the switch on its LTE network tomorrow, it'd still only be live in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Baltimore and Kansas City. Barring any new announcements, that leaves, oh, every city but those without Sprint LTE -- and there are a lot of Sprint stores in the rest of the country that will be selling the Galaxy Nexus.

So while it looks like Sprint will launch the Galaxy Nexus with LTE turned off by default, maybe it's not quite as crazy as it sounds. On the other hand, it doesn't do much to persuade me to to with Sprint's LTE network over more mature networks like Verizon, or even AT&T.

Source: Engadget; more: Galaxy Nexus forums

 

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Amazon.com has altered the VC business as we ... - Pham Capital

One could argue that Amazon.com has had more impact on the startup community than nearly any corporate venture capital fund, largely driven through the low-cost services it provides via Amazon Web Services. But the venture capital community wasn?t always a fan.

Speaking at an event in Australia Tuesday, Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels?noted that venture capitalists initially ?hated? AWS because it ?robbed them of the opportunity to get to significant chunks of young businesses,? according to a report in ComputerWorld. In other words, the infrastructure services from AWS made it so cheap for startups that venture capital wasn?t needed in the early-stages of many young companies.

But Vogels said things have changed, and VCs now embrace AWS since it allows them to place more bets and essentially ?spread their risk much more.?

Thousands of startup companies rely on the infrastructure services provided by Amazon, creating a low-cost way for entrepreneurs to get new services off the ground quickly and scale as customers arrive. Outsourcing those services doesn?t come without risk as some startups found last year when Amazon suffered a massive outage at one of its data centers, an outage that knocked a number of services offline for days.

Nonetheless, the trend of outsourced back-end services has had a huge impact on the venture capital community, one that can be seen in the quarterly numbers.?Commitments to venture capital funds have plummeted in the past five years, down from $31.1 billion in 2007 to $18.2 billion last year. That?s been driven in part by the softening economy. But it?s also the fact that VCs ? and the startups they back ? just don?t need as much capital as they used to.

At nearly every startup event and VC conference, that?s a recurring theme. As Seattle angel investor and venture capitalist Bill Bryant noted last month:??It is infinitely easier, orders of magnitude, exponentially easier to get companies going today.?

The way things have played out in the venture capital and startup community is classic Amazon, a highlight of how it approaches the business world through unconventional styles. Rather than set up a corporate VC fund like many other companies, Amazon instead decided (either consciously or unconsciously) to radically alter the costs associated with startups. At the time of its introduction, few could see the impact that it would have, and as Vogels noted many were fearful of the approach.

In a 4-part series by The Seattle Times this week, the newspaper is taking a close look at Amazon?s practices related to philanthropy, book publishing and taxes, basically an inside peek at a company that keeps a relatively low-profile in its own hometown. Amazon declined to be interviewed for the series, but it issued this statement about it:

At Amazon, if we do our job right, our greatest contribution to the good of society will come from our core business activities: lowering prices, expanding selection, driving convenience, driving frustration-free packaging, creating Kindle, innovating in web services, and other initiatives we?ll work hard on in the future.

Rob Frederick of Gripwire and Jeff Barr of Amazon.com on the AWS Report

I was struck by that statement because it could?be taken right out of the AWS playbook as it relates to the startup and venture capital communities. Amazon has embraced those communities more than other constituencies, but for the most part it has taken a hands-off approach, letting its services and prices stand on their own as its overall ?contribution.?

You can argue whether that?s the best approach for a corporation or not, but the philosophy certainly runs deep through the channels of Amazon.

Vogel?s remarks come as Amazon Web Services Jeff Barr kicked off a new video blog called ?The AWS Report,? with the first episode featuring Rob Frederick of Seattle-based Gripwire.

Frederick, an early employee at AWS who later joined Seattle startup Snapvine, said when he started out in the startup community there was an emphasis on getting your rack space set up and having people monitoring the server environment 24 hours per day, seven days per week. But that has pretty much disappeared.?When I started Gripwire, that was just a thing of the past. I just said: ?Hey, let?s use AWS, and I haven?t really looked back since.?

The show at times feels like a big ad for AWS, and the production on the show is a bit ?new-agey,? with clouds floating by on the set and soft music playing in the background. But it does show how Amazon ? which already disrupted online retail ? is doing the same in the venture capital business.


Previously on GeekWire: Amazon.com dubbed a corporate scrooge by hometown newspaper

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Article source: http://www.geekwire.com/2012/amazon-transformed-venture-capital-business/

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