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Tuning the car – a process of improvement by installing a non-standard auto components, assemblies and parts that change certain properties of the machine (including appearance). Today it is hard not to notice how rapidly gaining popularity theme tune cars in the world, including in Russia. Interest in this subject is largely fueled by a number of contemporary feature films such as “Fast and the Furious,” “Taxi,” “Carrier,” “Gone in 60 Seconds” and many others.

What is the tuning and what it eats.

In Russia, only a few people you can call the judges “of this tune a car.” In the minds of ordinary Americans or the Europeans’ pumped car “- a machine made for a specific owner, with all its needs and requirements. The unique and the only example.

Improve the car there is no limit. This theme is interesting and exciting. Tuning may involve some serious changes in the design of the engine, suspension and other systems of the car. In English, the word «tuning» meant by the term “tuning”. And that, in fact, set up?

Tuning is called the art of giving one of the hundreds of similar standard car your own, unique person. Art of giving the car owner a sense of individuality. Many of their car, in principle, satisfied, but wants it to something different from the thousands of other cars.

The simplest – is exterior design. From the banal labels, toning up batches of plastic and even “bodikitov» («body kit» – from the English. “Set of equipment for external tuning, modular set of equipment for a particular machine”). Of course, the technical characteristics of the car, these actions have no effect. However, if you want to actually increase the “capacity” of your “iron horse”, then the label is not enough.

There is need to work with all major vehicle systems.
For those who do not “ride fast, and low-flying” spoilers will be very helpful. They enhance the clamp to the road. Also, they will need and additional air intakes for brake cooling. All changes will be made to increase the capacity and speed of the car.

Next in complexity are minor technical changes – “chip tuning» («chiptuning» – from the English. “Replacement software for electronic control units of cars”) or “tuned” exhaust system. All this will increase the capacity without any major rework the engine.

The next level – changes affecting the units and components of the machine. Here the experiment is not worth that many jobs require scientific computing, or at least experience. The most popular version of the tune cars in the side of the “Ring” sports.At this stage, an ordinary “carrier” begins to take part in competitions on street racing (“street races” from the English. «Street-racing»). See, where the next race in the section “Events”.

At the level of modification of the vehicle units and units are already changing the gearbox with modified gear ratios, the replacement gear. Such changes (of course, not counting the extremes) do not require a major overhaul of the entire vehicle. After all machines are mainly for the average consumer and allow the displacement of the individual parameters in a specific corridor.

Completing our list tuning and super ultralight engines, gear boxes with amazing features. Among the epithets of “super”, there superrastsenki. In addition to exclusivity, it is determined, and materials – durable lightweight alloys, composites, carbon fiber.
You can have a long talk about the alluring world of tuning. But believe me, take part in his life much more interesting. The main thing – is that all professional sports development engineers and artists, designers, after all, are returning to normal motorist – German, Russian, Briton in the form of proven innovation and improvements that are needed for him and his faithful “horse.”
In this world, do what you choose.

Where to start tuning your car?

So begins the tuning

Assume that you have decided that now is the time to change the look of your car.Where to start auto tuning?
First, you need to deal with the overall style of tuning the car and with what you want to achieve. This is certainly not easy. Often it happens that people sharpen its focus on small things, and this, of course, prevents to see the full picture.

Some experts believe that, first of all, you need to start with the wheels. Determine the size of the disks and their patterns. By the disk is selected tires, it is desirable, “as” wide and low profile. However, once you put these wheels on a car, you immediately realize that they do not fit into the family of the arch.

Here begins the path of creativity and ideas. Necessary or to refuse to reduce the size of the ambition and drive, or change the shape and size of the arches of your car.Adjust the wheel arch, you can use plastic overlays or change the shape of the mother wing with “turbine” and welding.
Once done, the work begins with a front spoiler, namely, determined the shape and size are already considering the removal of wheels outside the body. Spoilers come in different forms.

The most popular recent spoilers – spoilers are large holes for air intake, aluminum mesh covered with a large mesh. This form of spoilers came out of the sport, where a large “holes” are usually hidden cooler turbines and oil cooler. Large mesh is placed to reduce the resistance to air flow and prevents large clumps of dirt.

Usually, there are two types of spoilers. First mounted in place of the native bumper second run in the form of bumper pads. During installation requires adjustment of the place, as is often the quality of body kit leaves a lot to be desired, or kit, designed for a single car brand, is set to another.

Installing a spoiler, except to improve the appearance, helping to solve some problems, such as the installation of additional lights that can fit nicely into the front spoiler, and cooling the front brake discs, which are made in the spoiler special channels.

In sports cars the main task of the spoiler – due to air flow push the front of the car to the road. Therefore, for the greater effect of the spoiler is adjustable.

Work on the front of the car does not end naspoylere.
To give the car a more aggressive type of optics is changing to an alternative. The hood is left unattended – it may be set different air intakes that serve either to provide air to the turbine, compressor, turbine, or vice versa – to extract hot air from the engine compartment area. ”Gills” that are made in the wings, often decorative, though they do sport a rather serious problem, removing the hot air from the brake discs. This reduces the heat load of the system and increase the efficiency of the brakes.

Doors and roof are usually not touched (except for the doors in the style of Lambo), although the construction of the classic “hot rod” Americans lowered the roof by 8-12 cm, and with the door handles removed. On some vehicles, doors remade so that they open up. Such a system is called a “dovetail”.

Nazadnih wings can be seen intakes “gills” which serve to reduce the temperature of the brake discs or air supply to the motor in the car with rear engine.

Wings, which are mounted on the trunk or the roof, also perform a specific task – they are pressed against the back of the car to the road. True, they begin to operate efficiently at speeds above 100 km / h Their shape and size are selected in accordance with the forms of the car and the overall style. Forms wings as varied as the forms of the front spoiler. They are mostly unregulated, made of plastic.

Recently popular high wings with adjustable angle of attack, aluminum or carbon fiber.Under the rear bumper spoiler and also establish a special wedge-shaped air outlet. In sports cars, they start deep below the machine. During the movements create effect of dilution under the bottom, respectively, the force which presses the car to the ground increases.

Here, perhaps, c which should be started for the first time thinking about tuning the car.Do not forget that the skirts, the proposed tuning studio, often created to improve the appearance and change the style of the car.

The main directions of tuning

What is tuning?

With respect to cars, tuning can be called anything that happens with the car after it rolled out. Most people are quite happy with the fact that the manufacturers offer.However, there are those who want to change anything.

A man tries to adapt the car to maximize its characteristics and needs, give the car a personality, to improve its technical characteristics, something refined, something to alter or change. All kinds of changes in the car can be divided into several main areas.

The internal tuning

The interior of the cabin, decorative trim (under the metal, wood, carbon), changes in domestic upholstery, leather, anatomical seats, multi-point safety belts, shift knob, pedals, aluminum mats, neon lights, additional devices. Special attention deserves avtomuzyka. Here otkravayutsya just neveroyannye opportunity for tuning.

External tuning

Rims, aerodynamic kits (spoilers, wings, sills, arches, bumpers, air intakes), decorative grille, tuning optics, mirrors, airbrush, etc.

Technical tuning

Sports suspension, the elements of the reinforcing body (beam stiffness, safety cages), low-profile tires, sports brakes, sports clutch, exhaust system, air filter zero resistance, forcing the engine, turbine installation, etc. The list goes on and on.

All of the above is the only basis for the realization of the idea. But the main purpose of tuning – to meet the individual needs of the person controlling the car, and this very much, if not all, depends only on himself, on his needs, fantasies and aspirations.

That is the lighting you’ve seen the movie “Fast and the Furious” and that’s what we recommend for your car. Differs from the Chinese “unique” as heaven and earth! All components are sets of strict quality control and have a lifetime! warranty from the manufacturer.

The kit consists of 4 neon lamps with built-in transformers that are packaged in robust Lexan body: under the front bumper (75 cm), under the rear bumper (75 cm) and below threshold (120 cm). The kit includes all wiring, switch, fuse and a complete set of fasteners required for installation.

This series is not limited to installation only under the bottom of the car. Engine compartment, interior SUV – absolutely any place where required lengthy configuration of neon lights. In the bright and beautiful packaging, can be a wonderful gift for all enthusiasts of tuning your car.

The natural desire of any vehicle owner, to keep the iron horse in its original form. But the movement in the modern big city is so intense that minor scratches and dents, are frequent guests on your body. In addition, your machine can either steal or rob. And will not help here either guard or strong walls of garage.In protecting your car insurance can help. It is not compulsory CTP, but the hull – the full protection of the car. Insurance, it is certainly good, but how to understand a set of proposals?

CTP is compulsory insurance, which are required to have all motorists from January 1, 2004 There is to protect property and health of third parties who have suffered in the accident. If you are guilty of the accident, the insurance company will pay for repairs to the victim. However, repair your car, you will pay for itself. Unless you bought a policy Hull.

Full package of hull – insurance from almost all “hazards.” Hijacking, accident damage, and it does not matter who is to blame accidents, fire, explosion, natural disaster or a natural disaster. Hull can also be partial, that when a theft is not an insurable event.

Almost all insurance companies offer similar insurance terms. Value of the policy varies from 5 to 20% of the vehicle, according to “age” of the car. The older, more expensive. It is not necessary to choose a policy just because of its price, it’s any good will not.

Carefully read the rules specified in the contract. See a list of insurance claims. Otherwise it may be that some very common situations do not fit in this list. Make a copy of the contract, and particularly the application for insurance vehicle. By the way, insurance premiums are calculated for each client individually.

The insurance policy must be certified by signature of the representative of the insurance company. The agent must have a power of attorney, which gives him the right to the signing and conclusion of the contract.

Some companies may reduce the cost of insurance by the use of the franchise. This is when an insurer can not recover damages unless they exceed a certain amount (conditional franchise). Under certain conditions, the franchise may be unconditional and deducted from the refund.

In the case of a deductible, insurance will cost significantly less. But do not forget that if the damage is below the amount in the contract, such as 4000 rubles, to repair a car you will be at your expense. On the one hand it saves you from need to contact the traffic police and the collection of references to the insurance company. But the practice of domestic insurance is that nearly always applied unconditional franchise. This means that whatever the accident, you either do not receive insurance compensation (if the damage is less than the deductible amount), or deduct the amount of compensation for the franchise.

Naturally when a major accident or theft auto, the amount deductible against the total compensation will not be so noticeable.But if the amount of damage quite a bit bigger than the franchise in the contract, the insurer to deduct most of the money will be very unpleasant. It is better to conclude a treaty without the use of the franchise.

Some companies offer customers more profitable types of hull. For example, do not enter into a contract for the entire year, but only for a certain period. Or buy a policy providing for operation of the vehicle only on weekdays or weekends. In addition, the contract can combine these options.

Insurance companies make insurance payments of two types: Aggregate (decreases) and Neagregatnye (not decrease).Fortunately, the first option is rare. Here, the alignment is that if you insure a car on 11 000 $, then more than this amount, you will not get. Suppose you have an accident and damage was estimated at $ 3000. This means that if during the term of the same policy again involved in an accident, for example, completely destroyed the car, the more $ 8000 you get a fail. The second option much more profitable to the first, true, and he stands at 5 – 25% more expensive. But you will agree, is more calm.

For some, often stolen cars, the insurers intend to inflate prices. It happens that for the same price of cars, the cost of insurance can be very different. Some firms may require you to set you additional protection, such as satellite tracking system. However, if you have a cheap car, then this purchase is very doubtful.

Sometimes the agreement CASCO, there is such a time as the special conditions of storage cars. Most insurers leave the choice up to you, but some small offices require you to put the car or the garage or on the guarded parking lot. This condition restricts your right to drive after midnight. This of course will reduce the price of the policy, but it worth it?

Buying a policy Hull, to determine the form of insurance compensation. This can be repaired in the SRT company, or payment calculation. By the way, you might want to familiarize with the system of compensation for minor injuries such as scratches on the wing or bumper. Usually large insurance companies do not require a call to road policemen, no problem you will pay the required amount. But for others, and make $ 100 to produce a certificate from the traffic police.

Repairs at the expense of the insurer, is convenient because no matter what the cost of repairs, such as a wing or bumper, you will still repair it. Unfortunately, the deadlines are unacceptably long. In addition, sometimes your views on the repairs do not agree with the views of the insurer. And you can, for example, to fix the bumper, rather than replace it.

It is best to contact the service center familiar, although in this case, the insurance company can refuse compensation. The calculation is also not as simple as it seems. The insurer can assess damage in an amount that is less real. In this case, for repair, you will have to pay extra out of pocket.

Previously, the sum insured recorded in dollars, but in recent years, this amount shall be calculated in rubles.

Upon payment of the sum insured, insurers take into account the depreciation of the TS. That is, the payment will be made taking into account the “aging” of which no specific details. And to prove the company that you need to buy for any new spare, here is useless. It is better to buy an additional policy that removes depreciation. The more that it costs about a thousand rubles.

If the customer does not have enough money to design policy Hull, the insurer may sell it to you in installments. However, in case of accident, you do not pay for insurance until you pay off your debt.

From the above it follows that the purchase of hull, freeing you from a few hundred dollars, in return gives peace of mind. And also save money invested in the car.