why are nats on my car?
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It's due to flies having phototaxis, the same attraction to light that moths have. White cars reflect more light than other colors, and so flies are more attracted to it.
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Driving without a grille will not hurt your car. The design is mostly for looks, its not to redirect airflow a certain way nor is it to filter the flow. The gaps in the grille basically are large enough to let large projectiles through and not too fine to catch every bug known to man.
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The reason a Skyline is illegal is because of NHTSA, DOT, and EPA regulations. There are a few R32's and R34's that were made compliant by MOTOR-EX in the late 90's early 2000's, but the company was shut down for not performing the necessary modifications on the cars. They were also expensive.
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The primary purpose of cabin air filters, located on most vehicles since 2000, is keeping the air inside your vehicle's cabin clean. ... Its job is to filter all of the air that comes through the car's HVAC system to prevent pollutants, such as dust, pollen, smog and mold spores from entering.
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They fly in front of cars because their instinct tells them that this is a dangerous predator needing distraction from a nearby nest, and the tactic works… for dangerous predators at least.
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The tow hooks are supposedly there so that the towing vehicles at the track can quickly get your car to safety and out of the way of the other racers if your vehicle happens to be disabled in the middle of a lap.
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Graves Motorsports Smog Block Off Plates are designed to seal off the ports on the valve cover used by the air injection system (a.k.a smog pumps or AIS). These products are intended for closed course competition use only. ... Once these are capped off the air injection system can be safely removed.
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They can't just send the unsold ones back to the manufacturer at the end of the year. In order to make money, they have to get customers to buy them. There are a few options for the dealership when their cars don't sell. They can ship the unsold cars to a different market where the specific model might be in demand.
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They might be seemingly too cheap to ignore, but don't overlook the reason why Cat D - or Category D - cars are sold at bargain prices. These vehicles have previously sustained major damage, which could have been in a crash or from a flood. Insurers have deemed them too expensive to repair and written them off.
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technically it is illegal to modify your exhaust so that it emmits any sound above a factory or comparable system... Va does not enforce this during safety inspections as they dont other things such as window tint and hood scoops..
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Mud flaps on cars do not help the driver behind them, they don't extend down past the body of the car. They are there to protect the cars fender from abrasion from kicked up road debris. Where corrosion has occurred around them, it would have anyway, the debris from the road would have worn away the paint.
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There are a variety of pros to hood scoops, but most of the benefits of hood scoops revolve around performance. The addition of the hood scoop can greatly enhance the performance of the vehicle's engine. ... Many people add hood scoops purely for the effect that it gives to the overall look of the vehicle.
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Dealer plates are special license plates used by dealers to allow customers to legally drive unregistered cars on public streets and highways. Transporter plates are used on vehicles not currently registered to any owner and do not have a license plate.
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Here's what I found. According to one of the posters there, the "X" is a tape or adhesive that's placed there in order to make cleanup of the shards in the event the glass breaks easier. Tracks used (still? No idea) to require racers to tape up their headlights and rear lights before racing for this purpose.
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A new crackdown could deem anything from invasive sat navs, fluffy dice, stickers and dirty windscreens to be obstructing a driver's view of the road. ... It is under this legislation that police have been clamping down on drivers whose vision of the road is obscured by objects placed on or around their windscreen.
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They are mounted on the front and rear end of a passenger vehicle. If a car is involved in a low-speed collision, the bumper absorbs the shock and, in doing so, reduces damage to the main part of the vehicle. ... And that's lucky, since in most states, it is illegal to drive a car without a front bumper.
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Registered. It is illegal to remove them in the U.S. They are there for safety. It is proven that they prevent serious injury in accidents.