OEReplacement News

Flat wiper blades didn’t catch on at first. “After all,” people asked, “aren’t they all the same? Why use replacement flat wiper blades when the plain old windshield wipers I’ve been using for years suit me just fine?” Everyone’s answer came in a different way. Maybe they drove an import car with the best wiper blades for sale today. Maybe they needed a wiper blade refill, but didn’t like replacing the whole wiper arm to do it, and instead wanted an easy wiper replacement. No matter whether you’re using a Bosch wiper, Anco wipers, a silicon wiper blade or Rain X wiper, replacing your old windshield wiper blades with a flat Valeo windshield wiper will make a difference to your driving experience.

Filed under: Product News by Josh Razgunas On: January 13th, 2010

A car water pump is one of those car parts that doesn’t get much thought until it starts leaking, but without a working water pump, the car’s engine won’t last long. The water pump is an automotive part without which a car won’t work.

Filed under: Product News by Josh Razgunas On: January 13th, 2010

Valeo flat wiper blades and silicon rubber wiper blades do a great job of cleaning rain, slush, sleet, dirt and everything else off your car’s windshield or windscreen, sometimes with a squirt of washer fluid to help them along. Valeo Ultimate ultra-flat wiper blades, also called low-profile wiper blades, are all-season summer wipers and winter wiper blades to cover more of your car windshield to give you both the best visibility and the lowest noise levels. There’s one thing that allows you to see the road, and that’s your windshield. In all weather, you need a good windshield wiper and wiper arm, with a quality wiper motor, to clear your glass of whatever you’re driving through–rain, snow or road dirt.

Filed under: Valeo by Josh Razgunas On: January 13th, 2010

Valeo Transmissions is famous for their clutches, but they have many flywheel and transmission parts, as well. Valeo makes both solid flywheels and dual-mass flywheels, as well as clutch master cylinders and clutch slave cylinders.

Filed under: Valeo by Josh Razgunas On: January 13th, 2010

The first question you should ask yourself is, what are you looking for in clutch parts? If you’re looking for a new clutch good enough to be used in most of the Mustangs built since 1984, as well as in 7.3-liter Ford trucks, the Taurus SHO and Thunderbird, you’re looking for a Valeo clutch.

Filed under: Valeo by Josh Razgunas On: January 13th, 2010

Few people give much thought to their automatic transmission, whirling along quietly without a problem. Then one day, something happens. Suddenly, an automatic transmission starts slipping. Whether it’s serious may depend on whether there’s been regular maintenance. Maybe it’s leaking fluid: it’s time for the dreaded automatic transmission rebuild or repair. Very often, though, none of that would have been needed if there’d only been a new automatic transmission filter kit installed.

Filed under: Product News by Josh Razgunas On: January 13th, 2010

When cars first hit the road, Philips Automotive Lighting was there to illuminate the darkness. But those bulbs shed a pale glow compared to the brilliant white Xenon high-intensity (HID) and now even high-efficiency LED lights that appear in cars from around the world.

Filed under: Philips by Josh Razgunas On: January 13th, 2010

Disc brake rotors and brake drums, brake calipers and brake master cylinders and brake lines are all important when stopping a car, but the brake pads are what actually slow a car. When a car is built, the manufacturer spends months and sometimes years testing disc brake pads, making sure they work with the brake rotors on the car, and making sure they’ll last long enough that it won’t need brake repair any time soon. Brake pad replacement will be necessary in every car some time, but original equipment quality brake parts guarantee safety and quality as good or better than the original.

Filed under: Product News by Josh Razgunas On: January 13th, 2010

Piercing the night–does a new sun dawn? Or is that brilliant white light from an HID headlamp? If you were behind the wheel of a car with HID bulbs shining, you might not know if it was day or if it was night. Only the most sophisticated manufacturing can produce a high intensity discharge car headlight, like a xenon projector bulb. It requires sophisticated circuitry not only to get HID headlights to turn on, like a BMW’s angel eyes halo effect, but to keep them going. So if your car was equipped with OE halogen headlights and you don’t have HID projector bulbs, you can’t just replace your old headlight bulb with new HID lights; rather, you’ll have to retrofit an HID conversion kit with a high-voltage wiring assembly and ballasts.

Filed under: Product News by Josh Razgunas On: January 13th, 2010

Nothing is as satisfying as replacing a dim or burned out headlight bulb with a fresh, bright halogen replacement. Unless you have sealed beam headlights, an aftermarket headlight replacement is as easy as opening your hood, pulling off the wiring harness and slipping out the old bulb. Make sure you never touch the surface of your new car headlight bulb, though, because oils from your fingers can flash vaporize when it turns on, and ruin your new car headlight, even if its a fog light bulb or driving light.

Filed under: Product News by Josh Razgunas On: January 13th, 2010