Starting December 18th to January 19th (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) every time someone uses HaggleChamp.com to search for a deal on a vehicle, HaggleChamp.com will donate $10 to Special Needs Recreation.

Specialized Needs Recreation offers various recreation programs for youth and adults who have challenges participating in other programs because of a learning disability, sensory impairment, mental, emotional or physical handicap.

HaggleChamp.com is a startup company based out of Post Falls, ID. HaggleChamp.com removes the stress of vehicle purchasing and negotiating. A customer simply visits HaggleChamp.com enters what make, model, and year they are after. We alert our dealer network and our dealer network provides the customer offers. Then based off those offers a customer can “declare a contender”, that’s the offer they like the best. This once again alerts the dealer network encouraging them to give our customer an even better offer. Customers are alerted by email as offers come in and their information is kept private until they decide on a vehicle to purchase. Customers can used the HaggleChamp.com service for free, allowing them to search up to a 35-mile radius from their zip code. Rates go
up from there.

“We are really excited to help Specialized Needs Recreation” Says Daniel Reyes,C.E.O. of HaggleChamp.com.

“We appreciate Haggle Champ and the community allowing us the opportunity to be a part of this Fundraiser. All proceeds will go toward scholarships for youth Day Camps.” Said Angie, Goucher, Executive Director, Specialized Needs Recreation

Right now Haggle Champ has a dealership network in Tacoma, WA, Spokane, WA and Las Vegas, NV. Our network continues to expand.

Tips for Dads: Teaching Kids about Car Maintenance

Many Americans have fond memories of how their father maintained the family vehicle.  They remember if their dad cussed and fussed under the hood.  They remember if their father checked the tire pressure at every fill up.  They remember if their dad lovingly washed the family car every Saturday.

As a Dad, how you maintain your family vehicle will set the standard for how your kids maintain their cars in the future.  Your maintenance standards will become their maintenance standards.  When you involve your kids in maintaining the family car, you are teaching valuable lessons.  As a Dad, you have to decide what to teach your kids about cars.  Here are some ideas:

Car Maintenance for Young Children.

Even young kids can help Dad clean out or wash the family car.  They can run a hand vacuum in the interior.  They can run a cleaning wipe across the dash.  They can spread soap suds across the car on a hot summer afternoon.  Even a trip through the car wash is an adventure for young kids.  If your car care center has a window looking out on the service bays, kids will be excited to see your family’s car go up on a lift.  Ultimately, the lesson you teach in maintaining your car is that they too need to take care of the things they value.  This lesson can immediately extend to their own toy cars and bicycles.

Car Maintenance for School-Aged Children.

As kids get older, they can participate in more advanced tasks.  For example, if you are doing mechanical work yourself, kids can act as tool box assistants and learn to recognize wrenches, screwdrivers, and other tools.  You can even involve them in turning wrenches.  School-aged kids can help replace air filters, check the oil, or check tire pressure on the car.  These little tasks help build a sense of pride and accomplishment.

Car Maintenance for Teens.  As teens approach driving age, they should learn basics like how to change a tire, how to check the oil, how to pump gas, and how to replace filters and wiper blades.  These simple tasks are basics that every driver should know.  If you are mechanically savvy, you may also want to teach your teens how to change their own oil and how to do simple repairs.  If your family has a project car or is maintaining an older car, you may even teach them how to more advanced repairs.  With today’s more sophisticated cars, car repair work may lie beyond the skills of most dads.  However, as a Dad, you can still teach valuable lessons about maintenance intervals, the importance of oil changes, the importance of getting an estimate, or budgeting for car repairs.  In teaching teens about car maintenance, you are helping to ensure that they will be able to handle minor emergency repairs on the road.

Of course, while you teach these car maintenance lessons, you’ll have to watch your cussing, your kids will always remember those words.

Tips for Dads: Teaching Kids about Car Maintenance

Eureka, they’ve done it again!  Automakers have made a most miraculous discovery in modern engine designs – air.  Not so miraculous, you quibble?  Would you be enticed to reconsider your position if you learned that compressed air engines (CAEs) offer low to zero pollution emissions with the main power source, air, basically free for the taking?  There’s an air of genius in the vision.

CAEs, in fact, are quite feasible with little green air cars sprouting up at car shows everywhere.  A handful of models are reaching the marketplace.  Kudos to the tenacious visionaries who pushed their dreams forward through ever-surging criticism.  It looks like vehicles engaging CAE technology and their advocates are here to stay awhile as engineers work tirelessly to harness the winds of change into viable, environmentally-friendly air-powered solutions.

Don’t let cynics convince you this technology has no future.  History proves otherwise.  Just take a look at the failed attempts at developing an internal combustion engine as an example of success in the face of obstacles albeit success with a cost.  There were many failed designs tested using everything from gunpowder to coal gas as fuel and some designs running only briefly at a mere 10 mph.  Eventually, gasoline-powered internal combustion engines were successful as is witnessed today.  However, after years of choking on toxin-rich emissions produced by those engines, clean engine power in the form of CAEs is the breath of fresh air that fuels the promise of a cleaner and greener tomorrow.

Should CAE technology take flight, the planet can breathe an enormous sigh of relief as toxic emissions are reduced by 80 to 100 percent.  An average fuel stop would cost a mere $2.00 per tank for compressed air that can carry an air car 125 miles.  Compare that to an average cost of $19 to travel 125 miles in a gasoline-powered engine.* With CAE technology, oil changes would amount to little more than swapping out a bit of non-toxic, biodegradable vegetable oil.  Spark plugs, batteries, antifreeze, and mufflers would become a thing of the past in our landfills.

CAE technology is definitely making headway and it’s quite realistic to expect CAEs to cross over into motorcycle, lawn mower, and power tool markets not to mention the world’s city bus and taxi systems.  Experiments include a motorcycle prototype built using scuba tanks filled with compressed air.  The motorcycle is capable of reaching speeds up to 87 mph.  Luxembourg-based Motor Development International (MDI), a major player in the air car market, has branded their air car through the AirPod name.  Reports indicate the AirPod is capable of reaching 68 mph and can be fueled in two to three minutes.  MDI is marketing the AirPod as “small size, tiny price, zero pollution, fun, and futuristic design that can be driven with a joystick.”

In January 2007, MDI signed a $28 million license agreement with India-based Tata Motors allowing Tata to market and sell air cars in India using MDI’s technology.  Tata wasted no timing moving forward with their MiniCAT which travels about 186 miles on a tank of compressed air.  French automaker Peugeot Citroen has unveiled their air-hybrid car that runs on both compressed air and gas and boasting 117 mpg.  Peugeot Citroen expects to have their air-hybrid car on the streets of Europe by 2016.  The cost of both the compressed air engine (CAE) cars and the hybrid-air car are around $8,000.

So buckle up folks for this incredible journey into the future of sustainability.  Tune into the collective consciousness of eco-friendly possibilities like compressed air engine (CAE) cars and hybrid-air cars.  The world is evolving one green idea at a time as it embraces new technologies in the interest of a cleaner, greener tomorrow.  There’s still a long way to go but hopefully many of us will get there in little green cars.

*Figured on an average gasoline cost of $3.69/gallon and gas mileage at 24 mpg.

Green Car News – Air-Powered Engines Sprouting Up in Little Green Cars

Repair experts know all about auto glass. They know that the windshield is made of a laminated glass that is designed for safety. Customers do not know about the special work involved in manufacturing cars. For an auto glass repair or replacement, they must contact the right provider in the local area.

Any good auto glass repair provider deals with problems right away. Cracked and chipped glass must be fixed soon because it gets ruined easily. Repair people can identify the types of glass cracks. The bull’s eye is one type that looks like a broken circle. Each crack is unsightly and gets worse to ruin the views of drivers. At some businesses, cars cannot be certified or sold if cracked glass is shown.

Fixing glass immediately is the best advice for drivers. Regular people do not have the chemicals and techniques needed for the job.For busy people, using a mobile technician is an option. Some professionals have severe car problems, but they cannot stop working right away. These professionals are able to arrive at any place of business.

The car windshield is more crucial than many people assume. There are several reasons why drivers get windshield repairs done immediately. If the shield is cracked, it decreases the chances of survival during a crash. As glass ages, problems appear and become less tolerable. It is almost impossible to keep the glass clean and clear forever. Only a professional knows if an auto glass replacement is necessary. The usual procedure involves an evaluation and cost estimate.

An auto glass replacement is recommended for unacceptable damages. This type of glass is supposed to be sturdy and long-lasting in order to resist strong impact. Engineers make different layers of the glass. People tint their windows to maintain privacy and block harmful sunlight.Getting an auto glass replacement is simple nowadays. It is important to install a newer, better version of glass that is stronger than the previous one.

Auto glass repair is more important than people think. A car has passenger airbags, but a secure windshield is more important due to the severe injuries. Getting a windshield fixed does not seem like a significant task, but it saves lives during severe crashes. New fortified glass should be installed on the front, side and back of a vehicle. Glass specialists do not train without a reason, so customers should find the right provider.

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