Friday, March 23, 2007

Heavy Construction & Machinery

Used Heavy Equipment and Machinery; Construction, Utility and Landscaping Vehicles

We have established a new section on our website dedicated to Heavy Equipment & Machinery listings. The listings include many trucks as well as heavy machinery (such as 2 fifth wheel equipped semi-trucks or a crane).

There are construction vehicles such as an Eric truck crane, road service trucks such as an Oshkosh snow plow, utility trucks such as three white 1988 Chevrolet utility trucks, and landscaping truck, such as a 66 inch tree spade truck.

Thumbnail Samples of the Equipment/Machinery Listings you will Find:
Three White 1988 Chevrolet Utility Trucks48 Foot Container Trailer
Austin-Western CraneFord Crew Cab Platform Lift Utility Truck
1979 OshKosh Snow Plow Truck and Dump TruckExcavator Bucket
Gehl Forklift on 20 Ton TrailerGrapple Bucket
The owners of Syd's Eastside Auto Salvage, Inc., and Feimer Construction Company, Inc., are selling this heavy equipment, machinery and construction vehicles on behalf of Fejfar Construction & Equipment.

Currently, we are concentrating on getting photographs of this heavy equipment and machinery online so that interested parties can view the equipment, machinery and vehicles easily. The above thumbnails are merely a small sampling of what is available at the website. As of this writing, there are twenty-one listings, and we still have more photos to take and put online.

Later, we will add more detailed textual descriptions for the listings and then start listing them in on/off-line industry publications and other construction sales oriented websites.

We hope that you may find something that may be of interest to you. If you need more information, please contact us. We would be happy to take more and better photos of any of the heavy equipment, machinery or vehicles that you may be interested in. We are available online through our Contact Form, or you may call us at 1-605-665-5119 or 1-800-505-5119.

Link:
Heavy Equipment & Machinery

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Vehicles Weekly Check Sheet

You should follow check sheet weekly.
  1. Engine oil level
  2. Power Assisted Steering Fluid level
  3. Coolant level
  4. Battery condition
  5. Brake Fluid level
  6. Screen Washer Fluid level
  7. Screen Washer Jets
  8. Tyre Pressure
  9. Tyre condition
  10. Spare wheel
  11. Lights
  12. General Vehicle condition
  13. Legal documentation
  14. First aid kit

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Link Building and Sinister Link Exchanges

I wrote an article about linking and the way sinister link exchanges profit from those who do not understand link building correctly.

The article is available at:
http://www.sydsautoparts.com/Linking-Evils.php

I think it is a pretty good article, myself. I really haven't seen another article like it. Though it is pretty much based on common sense, some may not be as well educated on the subject of Link Building, so that they can't make the connections concerning sinister linking techniques. Hopefully, this article lays everything out so that it is more easily understood.

A slight warning... this isn't a mini article that can be devoured in a few minutes, this is intended as a serious article that is written to help any webmaster, including beginners. If it misses that mark, tell me. I am anxious to hear how I might improve it.

http://www.sydsautoparts.com/Linking-Evils.php

Although this article is not directly automotive related, I know of many small business automotive shops starting or struggling to get their business online. This is intended to assist businesses (from any industry) with some great pointers along those lines.

-Doug (at work)

Friday, February 23, 2007

New Featured Parts & Products Showcase

Welcome Back to the Autos and Automotive Blog!

We have been testing and are now putting the final touches on a new Featured Parts & Products Showcase section at Syd's Eastside Auto Parts. We are happy to announce that it is now available and working. All online transactions are secured with 128 bit encryption and are safe (as usual for e-commerce at Syd's Eastside Auto Parts).

We will be adding many automotive parts and products to this new section over the next coming weeks. Here, we will be able to feature new auto parts and products, as well as showcase old auto parts.

Currently, the showcase is featuring a steering wheel from a 1949 Pontiac, and another from a 1952 Mercury.

1949 Pontiac Steering Wheel1949 Pontiac Steering Wheel

1952 Mercury Steering Wheel1952 Mercury Steering Wheel

Syd's Eastside Auto Parts will use this section to showcase such older products as well as to expand our reach and offer new auto parts and automotive products.

The
Syd's Eastside Auto Parts Search remains an important and functional focus for the website, where our customers can search virtually our entire inventory. But the Featured Parts & Products Showcase allows us to offer parts and products that you might not expect to find at an auto parts and salvage yard.

We hope our customers will enjoy the new service and that it may attract new customers.

Links:
Syd's Eastside Auto Parts
Featured Parts & Products Showcase

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Q : Where on the steering wheel should your hands be when you’re driving?

A : Not at “4 o’clock and 8 o’clock.” The rationale behind “4-and-8” that many driver's-education classes advocate is that it keeps a driver’s hands out of the way of the steering column’s airbag, preventing injuries to hands and arms, and to the face. “That’s stupid,” says Smith. With hands low and elbows on their thighs, he says, drivers have little ability to control the car. Solution: Better to raise your chances of avoiding an incident altogether by having your hands in the tried-and-true “10-and-2” positioning, says Smith. Or, experts suggest dropping the hands slightly, to a “9-and-3” position, to keep them out of an airbag’s path. You’re also probably turning wrong. In this age of airbag-equipped cars, experts no longer recommend the hand-over-hand method of turning the steering wheel. Instead, use the “shuffle” method, which feeds the wheel through your hands and keeps them from crossing in front of the airbag.

Q : How to Approve For a Poor Credit Car Finance Loan?

Add Up Your Current Debts
The amount of money you pay each year toward debts shouldn’t exceed 30% of your annual income. This includes your car payment. Before applying for an auto loan, add up the total amount you pay toward your debts each year, including the amount you plan to pay on your car. If this amount exceeds 30% of your annual income, you’ll need to take measures to lower your debt-to-income ratio. This means that you’ll either have to pay off some debts before applying for a car loan, or you’ll have to reduce the amount you’ll borrow.

Clean Up Your Credit Before Applying

Obtain copies of your credit reports from the three main reporting agencies. Check each report for errors or inaccuracies. Keep in mind that it takes these companies up to 30 days to follow through on disputes. Make timely payments on your other credit accounts in the months prior to applying. Even a few months of timely payments will improve your chances of approval. Finally, avoid applying for other forms of credit. Inquiries on your credit report temporarily lower your credit score.

Make a Down Payment

If you have bad credit, lenders are going to want to make sure that, even if you don’t pay your loan, they can resale the car and get their money back. For this reason, it’s important that you take out a loan for less than the car’s appraised amount.
For example, if the car you’re buying is worth $15,000, you’ll want to borrow less than that amount. Usually that means making a significant down payment. Making a down payment makes you less of a risk to a borrower, therefore improving your chances of being approved.

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Can't Believe We Haven't Updated For So Long

It's very hard to believe all that time passed and we never bothered to update the blog. Horrible! The fact that we've been pretty busy is not a good excuse. We will try to be more consistent posting new stuff here.

We'll try to give you a brief overview of what's been accomplished so far. We are constantly working on improving the quality of iAuto and iRealty. We are improving our internal development processes: work flow management, project and task planning, coding, testing, and control.

We have made substantial product improvements that will appear in the new version of the software to make iAuto and iRealty more reliable, robust, flexible and smart. We've also added several smaller features that improve the overall functionality of the software and make it more usable and powerful.

Our iAuto/iRealty community is growing, and the forum is slowly becoming a focal point where information about updates, fixes, tweaks and bugs is gathered and made available to those who need it.

We've been engaged in several bigger projects where iAuto/iRealty were used as the platform for custom solutions and even developed a totally independent solution from scratch. We will announce one of the projects shortly when it goes live with the permission of the owners.

This should be it for now, we'll be keeping you informed as we go along.