Honest-1 Auto Care Announces Signed Franchise Agreement to Open First Location in North Carolina

Honest-1 Auto Care, the only national full-service auto repair and maintenance franchise that is 100 percent ESA® Certified Eco-Friendly, today announced the signing of a franchise agreement with local entrepreneur Erik Rhyne to open a location in Greensboro, N.C. The new Honest-1 Auto Care will be the brands first location to open in North Carolina.

In addition to practicing environmentally responsible auto repair and maintenance services, Honest-1 Auto Care is a family and female-friendly center, with clean and upscale waiting areas, Internet cafes allowing customers to work while their cars are serviced, children's play areas so parents can relax, comfortable chairs and couches, HDTV and complimentary custom coffee stations.

Rhyne, a Greensboro native, previously served as a parachute rigger in the 82nd Airborne 782nd Battalion before becoming a master technician at BMW. His experience with the luxury automaker included repair, diagnosis and sales. He currently serves as the market manager for an integrated technology company that distributes marketing data for auto dealers. As market manager, Rhyne manages technical diagnosis and relationships with dealership sales and general managers.

Rhyne, who first heard of the franchise opportunity after his mother connected with the COO of Honest-1 Auto Care, Rissy Sutherland, on a business flight. Rhyne was drawn to the environmentally friendly and honest business model. He saw it as an opportunity to take control of his career and financial future.

"I want to establish Honest-1 as 'the' eco-friendly auto repair and maintenance business in town. Hopefully, it will encourage other businesses in the community to 'go green'," said Rhyne. "I am thrilled to be part of a business that exceeds auto industry standards to protect the environment."

While offering exceptional service programs for customers to choose from, Honest-1 also offers specialized, eco-auto care programs for those who want to play a greater part in helping the environment. An example is the ECO TuneUp® with our Eco-360 fuel treatment. Through a partnership with Green Earth Technologies, they also sells G-OIL Ultimate Biodegradable motor oil, made completely of renewable animal fats.

Rhyne joins a growing number of entrepreneurs nationwide who have opened shops to meet the growing demand among consumers for honest and eco-friendly auto maintenance services. His future plans consist of opening additional Honest-1 Auto Care locations in the Greensboro area.

"Our business principles are focused on honesty, integrity and environmental protection," said Jack Keilt, President and CEO of Honest-1 Auto Care. "Erik is dedicated to those principles, and we are very excited to have him join the Honest-1 family."

Honest-1 Auto Care® is the only national full-service auto care company that is 100% ESA® Certified Eco-Friendly. Honest-1® leads the industry in numerous eco-friendly initiatives including strict recycling of automotive materials, pollution prevention, resource conservation and offering Eco-Friendly Auto Care® services such as the ECO TuneUp® and ECO Oil Change. In addition to its high environmental standards, Honest-1® has a very unique customer centric approach to the auto care industry providing centers which are family-friendly, characterized by clean and upscale waiting areas, Internet cafes, children's play areas, comfortable leather chairs and couches, big screen TVs and complimentary beverage stations. With 22 locations operating, Honest-1® plans to open 10 more locations nationwide in the next year. Honest-1® was ranked 338 in Entrepreneur magazine's 2011 "Franchise 500." Additionally, Honest-1® ranked as one of the top companies in the Lube and Oil News 2011 "Top Oil Change-Plus Chains." To further show its commitment to the environment, Honest-1 Auto Care has partnered with American Forests, the leading nonprofit organization that plants trees for environmental restoration. Honest-1 Auto Care locations nationwide will fund the planting of 60,000 new trees this year through the charitable donation of revenues collected from repair orders, at no additional cost to customers. In 2009, the first year of the partnership, Honest-1 Auto Care planted 40,000 trees and since then Honest-1 has committed to an additional 60,000 trees for a total of 100,000 trees planted in two years! For more information, visit http://www.honest-1.com.

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How to Find a Perfect Auto Body Paint Color Match

To ensure a perfect color match on your auto body paint spraying projects, there are several key actions that must be undertaken. Although most common car colors will rarely match exactly, finding the best shade could help you avoid blending into an adjacent panel. Choose the right color at the first time of asking, and you will also save money on your paint and consumable costs.

Every mass-manufactured vehicle has an individual color code that can be cross-referenced by an auto body paint supply shop, and this allows a mixing formula to be produced. The mixing formula measures the individual weights of colored tinters and when these are combined and stirred together, the correct color match is achieved.

To find your color code, check the door apertures, engine bay or trunk of your vehicle and locate the relevant stamp, badge or sticker. Usually, the color code will be clearly marked and will consist of a combination of letters and numbers. Write down the color code and take it to your auto body paint supply shop, and it will be matched up to produce an accurate color match.

Prior to painting, it is always advisable to complete a paint spraying test card. Activate a small quantity of auto body paint and pour it into a HVLP spray gun. Apply three even coats of color to the test card, allowing a five-minute flash-off time between each one. Once the base color has dried to a matte finish, apply two full coats of clear lacquer and leave to dry.

Once the test card is touch-dry, hold it against your vehicle adjacent to the panel that is being painted. If the test card matches the existing auto body paint on your vehicle to perfection, there will be no need to blend the panels on either side of the repair. If the color match is in any way inaccurate, it is advisable to rub down the adjacent panels with a soft sanding pad and flatting paste. This will provide a perfectly keyed surface that will accept blended color and clear coat.

When you come to paint the vehicle, use the same spraying distances as those applied during the test card procedure. If different spraying distances are used, the base color can lighten or darken. A superior blend can be achieved if the auto body panels are coated with a clear binder before work begins. This process allows seamless integration of your new auto body paint into the existing panels without the risk of color edges showing.

Adorn Your Car with Charming Car Sticker

Instead of painting cars to stand out from all the rest, vehicle owners now have a new modern way to customize vehicles. That is the car sticker. It's one of the best ways to dress up your vehicle making it unique so it'll stand out from all the rest.

Car stickers are computer cut for precision from a vinyl material with an adhesive backing. The material is amazing and designed in such a way that they can be installed on any smooth surface. They appear in all kinds of sizzling styles, sizes, designs, colors and shapes for catching your attentions everlastingly. 3D stickers could be found being used which seem to leap out from the body of the car. And the benefits of car sticker are various.

More and more people are using them now to jazz up their vehicle and show off their creativity. You can show off your humorous side, create beautiful sceneries for everyone to enjoy. They can also be removed when needed without causing any damage to the paint. It won't do any hurt on the cars. It's much easier and cheaper to return your vehicle back to its original condition and you don't have to worry about getting a new paint job.

There are cases where some people will buy them to show their interests, but there are also those that use them for practical uses. It protects car surface from scratches or feasible damages due to light collision. They're durable enough to hold up to car washing and the elements nature creates including the harsh rays of the sun and winter storms. A unique sticker is also a good way for you to distinguish your car immediately, when it is in a large parking lot.

You can use them as a form of advertisement for companies or home businesses. They make excellent marketing tools because people can't resist looking at these advertisements as they pass by. Regardless of its size or financial situation, even small business with limited funds can use them to draw attention to their companies and the products they have to offer. It's affordable, effective and can be permanent.

As for the installation of stickers, it is so easy that every person can do this. Clean surface prior to make sure surfaces are dry and dust free to get best results. Remove film from adhesive, and then attach compact door guard to desired are. It is so easy to paste any place you like on your car or any other areas.

With the development of technology, you can even design and custom particular car sticker for your own. Simply show a picture or drawing of the design you want to the professional of your choice and he or she will let you know whether or not they can transform it into a car sticker. To make sure that your sticker design comes out just the way you wanted it to, choose only an online printing company that offers the best prints, the fastest turnaround time and the most affordable printing rates. (By bella2011812)

The entire tint that you need! Reasons for Vehicle Window tinting

Vehicle windows are usually very much prone to absorbing sunlight or UV rays. The sunlight, in turn, heats up the interiors of the car and thereby making it really sultry. In order to check this heating, vehicle windows are usually tinted. You might have observed several luxury cars with tinted vehicle windows and if you are living in Washington DC, then there is a high possibility of watching VIP cars and limos, which are tinted very dark, to avoid showing the outsiders, who is on board. So, as a matter of fact, it also provides privacy for celebrities and protection for politicians. But, the question remains to be answered whether the vehicle window tint is a style statement or a practical way to cut the sun's heat.
We could simply say that the tinting of windows is a smart way to keep the heat outside and give the vehicle an elegant look. There are several types of tints that a repair shop personnel can give to your car windows. It is up to you, how much you are ready to expend. If you do not intend to shower money on the tint, then you will get a low quality and light tint that can cut down the sunlight and UV radiation by 60 percent. If you can spend more, you will be able to get the dark tint, which eliminates the sunlight by more than 95 percent. Nevertheless, there are a few states, which do not allow you to put just any amount of tint. For Example, in Alaska and Idaho, the tint percentage cannot exceed 33 percent for the side windows.
A tinted glass also gives an anti-glare view for the driver and thus, making the drive easy during night times. Another important reason to tint your vehicle window is to protect the fabric of the interiors of the car; because, the fabric is reactive to sunlight, thereby fading the color or expanding and loosening the leather seats. Now, there is a very vital reason, known to very few people, for the use of tint over the vehicle windows and windshield. The tint is a screen, on both the surfaces of the glass, hence, when the car meets an accident and when the glass shatters, the small pieces of the window will be held by the tint screens and avoids contacting the passengers.
There are a few individuals who think that it is a waste of time to hire a repair shop for tinting their vehicle windows. They try to buy the material and use the necessary adhesive to stick the tint on their own. But then, there is a high possibility that you may end up giving out a shabby look to the tint by producing air bubbles. Air bubbles are actually unavoidable over a long period of use of the tinted screens; however, if you end up creating them in the initial stage itself, then the tinted screen wears out, meaning you will have to replace them more often than needed.

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Transmission Buyers Guide

Did you just find a 41 Willys body?, or are you building a 33 Chevy Rat Rod or do you have an old Dodge Coronet that you want to restore? Maybe you have a 55 Chevy that has a TH400 in it but you want a rockcrusher or a lenco racing transmission. If you are on a tight budget but need a transmission, buying one used or even junkyard shopping is going to be your best option (unless you got an inside connection on how to get a Lenco for cheap that you might want to let me in on, hmm). Anyway you may have to go looking for a transmission but you may be not sure how to find one.
Step 1. Research- Make sure you know what transmission you want for your build. Make sure you know all of the varations and changes from year to year of that transmission. Everything from bolt patterns, drive ratios, length, and other things can be different on the same model transmission from different years.
Step 2. Learn About Transmissions- This step really is common since, but it is a step many people do not do! Learn about how a transmission works, what a transmission does, the different parts of a transmission. Plenty of info is on goole and I am sure there are Youtube videos on basics of transmissions as well.
Step 3. Plan out the build- Make sure you know what parts you are going to need to install your transmission. Make sure your transmission will bolt on to your engine and to see if you will need an adapter or not. If your transmission will require those parts make sure you get them before you install your transmission to have them on hand.
Step 4. Inspect the Transmission- Whether you are going to a junkyard or to pick up a used transmission from craigslist. Try to bring with you someone who knows something about transmissions. One you get to your transmission be sure to inspect, even bring a flashlight with you to inspect the inside. If the transmission you want is still in the vehicle ask the junkyard staff to see if they can pull it for you.
Inspection Automatic Trans- When Inspecting an Auto Transmission remove the drain plug (its usually small, so this is where studying transmissions helps), drain the fluid, check to see how dirty the fluid is. Turn the transmission upside down and remove the pan, check the condition of the input shaft. Also check the internal rotating gear assembly. Move the transmission through all of the gears both up and down, the transmission should go into all of the gears if it is good. Also look for any cracks in the gears or the transmission as well. Inspect the gear teeth for any wear or damage. Make sure the output shaft rotates as well, also when doing this listen for any grinding, or meshing noises. If so this may not be a good transmission.
Inspection for Manual Trans- Inspecting a Manual is the same concept as an Auto but with a few differences. Again remove the drain plug and drain the transmission. Look for any pieces of dirt, small pieces or metal or anything else in the gear oil. If the gear oil appears cloudy or milky there could be water (and of course rust) in the transmission which is a bad sign. Inspect the condition of the input shaft for signs of the bearing failure. Again shift through all of the gears in the transmission both up and down to make sure they work (don't forget reverse).When shifting look at the output shaft, it should spin when you shift into gear. Also listen for any grinding or mesh noises if you don't hear anything and no derbies in the gear oil and no problems you most likely have found a good transmission!
Step5. The Build- Now that you have your transmission and hopefully the parts you will need its time to install it in your Hot Rod!

Honest-1 Auto Care Announces Signed Franchise Agreement to Open First Location in North Carolina

Honest-1 Auto Care, the only national full-service auto repair and maintenance franchise that is 100 percent ESA® Certified Eco-Friendly, today announced the signing of a franchise agreement with local entrepreneur Erik Rhyne to open a location in Greensboro, N.C. The new Honest-1 Auto Care will be the brands first location to open in North Carolina.

In addition to practicing environmentally responsible auto repair and maintenance services, Honest-1 Auto Care is a family and female-friendly center, with clean and upscale waiting areas, Internet cafes allowing customers to work while their cars are serviced, children's play areas so parents can relax, comfortable chairs and couches, HDTV and complimentary custom coffee stations.

Rhyne, a Greensboro native, previously served as a parachute rigger in the 82nd Airborne 782nd Battalion before becoming a master technician at BMW. His experience with the luxury automaker included repair, diagnosis and sales. He currently serves as the market manager for an integrated technology company that distributes marketing data for auto dealers. As market manager, Rhyne manages technical diagnosis and relationships with dealership sales and general managers.

Rhyne, who first heard of the franchise opportunity after his mother connected with the COO of Honest-1 Auto Care, Rissy Sutherland, on a business flight. Rhyne was drawn to the environmentally friendly and honest business model. He saw it as an opportunity to take control of his career and financial future.

"I want to establish Honest-1 as 'the' eco-friendly auto repair and maintenance business in town. Hopefully, it will encourage other businesses in the community to 'go green'," said Rhyne. "I am thrilled to be part of a business that exceeds auto industry standards to protect the environment."

While offering exceptional service programs for customers to choose from, Honest-1 also offers specialized, eco-auto care programs for those who want to play a greater part in helping the environment. An example is the ECO TuneUp® with our Eco-360 fuel treatment. Through a partnership with Green Earth Technologies, they also sells G-OIL Ultimate Biodegradable motor oil, made completely of renewable animal fats.

Rhyne joins a growing number of entrepreneurs nationwide who have opened shops to meet the growing demand among consumers for honest and eco-friendly auto maintenance services. His future plans consist of opening additional Honest-1 Auto Care locations in the Greensboro area.

"Our business principles are focused on honesty, integrity and environmental protection," said Jack Keilt, President and CEO of Honest-1 Auto Care. "Erik is dedicated to those principles, and we are very excited to have him join the Honest-1 family."

About the Author

Honest-1 Auto Care® is the only national full-service auto care company that is 100% ESA® Certified Eco-Friendly. Honest-1® leads the industry in numerous eco-friendly initiatives including strict recycling of automotive materials, pollution prevention, resource conservation and offering Eco-Friendly Auto Care® services such as the ECO TuneUp® and ECO Oil Change. In addition to its high environmental standards, Honest-1® has a very unique customer centric approach to the auto care industry providing centers which are family-friendly, characterized by clean and upscale waiting areas, Internet cafes, children's play areas, comfortable leather chairs and couches, big screen TVs and complimentary beverage stations. With 22 locations operating, Honest-1® plans to open 10 more locations nationwide in the next year. Honest-1® was ranked 338 in Entrepreneur magazine's 2011 "Franchise 500." Additionally, Honest-1® ranked as one of the top companies in the Lube and Oil News 2011 "Top Oil Change-Plus Chains." To further show its commitment to the environment, Honest-1 Auto Care has partnered with American Forests, the leading nonprofit organization that plants trees for environmental restoration. Honest-1 Auto Care locations nationwide will fund the planting of 60,000 new trees this year through the charitable donation of revenues collected from repair orders, at no additional cost to customers. In 2009, the first year of the partnership, Honest-1 Auto Care planted 40,000 trees and since then Honest-1 has committed to an additional 60,000 trees for a total of 100,000 trees planted in two years! For more information, visit http://www.honest-1.com.