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The paint on your car is not only the thing that makes it shiny and pretty, it is also what protects the structure of the car from damage like the weather, scratches and dings, and dirt and bird poo. Different types of paint have different qualities. Here is your guide to the different types of paint you can have on your car.

Acrylic Lacquer

This type of paint has many benefits. It is easy to apply, which means that a novice can conceivably paint a car without it looking like a child did it. It also makes the car nice and glossy, which is a desirable quality in car paint. There are some bad things about it, however. UV rays, chemicals, and chips weaken it easily, so a car painted with acrylic lacquer would need to be repainted often. Which brings us to the worst thing about it – it would be bad to have to use it often, because it is very bad for the environment. In fact, it has been banned in many states.

Acrylic Enamel

Acrylic enamel is much harder than lacquer, so it stands up to the elements better. Car manufacturers and professional car painters bake on the enamel. Acrylic enamel also come in spray cans, but because the paint is not as easy to apply. If you try to do it yourself, you might end up with a drippy, streaky car. Also, many enamels require a topcoat, so that’s a lot to do on your own.

Acrylic Urethane

Acrylic urethane combines the best of both the acrylic lacquer and acrylic enamel worlds. It is easier to apply like lacquer, yet tougher and more durable like enamel. It is also a bit more complicated. It comes in three different, separate products. First is the color, then the reducer that makes the color the right consistency, or viscosity, and finally a product that makes the drying time faster. Once you mix all three components together, you have to use it quickly, and throw away any paint that is left over. The paint is pretty toxic, so if you work with it you’ll need gloves, a respirator, and eye protection to make sure you don’t get it on or in you.

The car rental industry is a multi-billion dollar sector of the US economy. The US segment of the industry averages about $18.5 billion in revenue a year. Today, there are approximately 1.9 million rental vehicles that service the US segment of the market. In addition, there are many rental agencies besides the industry leaders that subdivide the total revenue, namely Dollar Thrifty, Budget and Vanguard. Unlike other mature service industries, the rental car industry is highly consolidated which naturally puts potential new comers at a cost-disadvantage since they face high input costs with reduced possibility of economies of scale. Moreover, most of the profit is generated by a few firms including Enterprise, Hertz and Avis. For the fiscal year of 2004, Enterprise generated $7.4 billion in total revenue. Hertz came in second position with about $5.2 billion and Avis with $2.97 in revenue.

Level of Integration

The rental car industry faces a completely different environment than it did five years ago. According to Business Travel News, vehicles are being rented until they have accumulated 20,000 to 30,000 miles until they are relegated to the used car industry whereas the turn-around mileage was 12,000 to 15,000 miles five years ago. Because of slow industry growth and narrow profit margin, there is no imminent threat to backward integration within the industry. In fact, among the industry players only Hertz is vertically integrated through Ford.

Scope of Competition

There are many factors that shape the competitive landscape of the car rental industry. Competition comes from two main sources throughout the chain. On the vacation consumer’s end of the spectrum, competition is fierce not only because the market is saturated and well guarded by industry leader Enterprise, but competitors operate at a cost disadvantage along with smaller market shares since Enterprise

If you have a car, then you would need car insurance. The best car insurance can protect your car from any inconvenience should a likely car accident occur. But you should also be careful of what kind of car insurance you have. There are a lot of them available out there but not all can give you that coverage that you might be looking for.

As most other types of insurance available to choose from, the same thing goes with insuring your own car. There are different types that you can choose from, depending on what your needs are. There are liability car insurance policies that cover for accidental bodily injury as well as property damage to others. There are also policies that cover only damages caused by collisions with other vehicles or objects. There are also comprehensive car insurance policies that cover for loss or damage to the insured vehicle caused by circumstances other than car accidents. This may include car damage or loss due to fire, hail, vandalism, or theft.

Another type of car insurance policy available for you covers for medical expenses for injuries caused by a car accident regardless of fault. There is also a type of car insurance policy called Personal Injury Protection (PIP) that covers an insured driver for injuries acquired from a car accident, regardless of fault. There are also car insurance policies that can cover a motorist from car damages in a car accident with a driver who doesn’t have liability insurance.

Road traffic accidents takes lives of more than one million people a year, injuring another thirty-eight million (5 million of them seriously). The death rate of the world roadways makes driving the number one cause of injury and death for young people ages 15 to 44 years.

How safe is that a used or a new automobile you are thinking of purchasing? With the inventions of the airbags and crash testing, the numbers of citizens injured and killed by vehicles has decreased in many nations.

A crash test is a form of destructive testing usually performed in order to ensure safe design standards in Crash worthiness and crash compatibility for automobiles or related components.

The Crash tests are done under very careful safety and scientific standards. Every crash test is very costly so the maximum amount of data must be got from each and every test. Typically, this requires the usage of high-speed data-acquisition, at least one accelerometer and crash test dummies.

Two types of crash tests are been performed on each automobile – one is an offset frontal test and the other is side impact test. These tests suggest two of the most common crashes that occur on our roads.

Dummies are used to calculate the level of injury that would affect the front seat occupants wearing the safety belts in these crashes.

The crash-rating dummy represents an average-sized adult is been placed in the driver seat and rear passenger seats and secured with the vehicle’s seat belts.

The mandatory standard for crash tests is to:

1.  Reduce the level of risk to drivers, passengers and public by preventing supply of dummies that do not meet key safety requirements.
2. Reduce the incidence of serious injury associated with poor quality products.
3.  Give consumers confidence that dummies available in the market have a reasonable level of safety.
4.  Provide a framework for industry to determine appropriate levels of safety for the dummy.

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