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AAA Auto Salvage Prepares to Celebrate America Recycles Day
Written by Amy Schulz
Rosemount, Minnesota – AAA Auto Salvage has been recycling automobiles for 28 years. AAA Auto Salvage is celebrating America Recycles Day by helping raise peoples' awareness of the important benefits of buying Green Recycled Parts™ harvested from motor vehicles.
America Recycles Day is a national event held annually on November 15 to promote the social, environmental and economic benefits of recycling and buying recycled. Last year millions of people participated in events around the country. AAA Auto Salvage along with sister company U Pull R Parts are drawing near to recycling their 130,000th vehicle. This translates to less landfill space used and a lot of gas, oil,glass, steel, aluminum, rubber, plastics, and other materials reused. Customers also benefit from the millions of dollars in savings achieved from buying and using Green Recycled Parts™.
According to the Automotive Recyclers Association, the industry's international trade association, just about everything in your car - from floor mats and instrument panels to upholstery, aluminum and steel - can be recycled for use in a new automobile or another consumer product.
Approximately 84% of each vehicle is recycled and during this process six million tires and millions of gallons of anti-freeze, oil, gasoline and oil are recycled. Automobile recycling recovers enough steel to produce almost 13 million automobiles and saves an estimated 11 million gallons of oil that would otherwise be needed to manufacture new automobile parts. Many people don't realize that the automobile is the most recycled consumer product in the world.
The efforts of automotive recyclers not only preserve natural resources and conserve landfill space, they also reduce air and water pollution that occur during the manufacture of new automotive parts. As an automotive recycler, AAA Auto Salvage is helping to preserve natural resources, protect the environment, and save our customers money. When it comes to recycling an automobile about the only thing we can’t recycle is the future.
One of aaa Auto Salvage’s customers tragically lost an owner, employee, daughter, and great person. Sadly Kari Neznik passed away Saturday September 10, 2011. Kari was 41 years young and will be missed by her family and her colleagues in the collision industry. The staff at aaa sends its thoughts and prayers to Kari’s family and to all of our friends at Crystal Collision.
This is what happens when you let politicians and the so-called environmentalists run an automotive recycling facility.
What's your definition of a high performance car?
Most would say horsepower and how quick it can get to 60 from a dig. The track junkies among us however, not only care about acceleration, but also a car's braking performance...and they have a valid reason. When you drive a car on its ragged edge, having good brakes can save your life.
What does this have to do with car maintenance in general?
As it turns out, brake fluid is possibly the most neglected component of a vehicle. Can you recall when was the last time you've done a brake fluid flush?... I don't either. We check our tire pressures and change the engine oil at a regular interval. No one cares about brake fluid.
Brake fluid's functionality is a rather simple concept. Imagine you need a doorstop. Rubber doorstops have some wiggle room while the hard plastic/wooden ones don't. New brake fluid is in a way the same as the hard doorstop. When fresh, brake fluid is incompressible. So the instance you step on the brake pedal, that same amount of pressure will be transferred directly to the caliper to slow the car down. Used brake fluid is on the other hand similar to the rubber doorstop.
When new, most brake fluids won't boil until the temperature in the brake line reaches 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Over time they gradually lose their temperature resistance and will boil much earlier (due to its absorbance of moisture). Boiling produces air bubbles and air bubbles are compressible. Therefore, boiling brake fluid leads to a soft pedal feel (longer travel).
It is summer time here in MN and while we have not been blessed with many sunny days yet this year, be proactive and get your car in good shape before those long road trips.
Have you heard the following message on KFAN on Saturday Mornings?
"Does your vehicle have damage? A broken side mirror, a cracked or broken tail light, or maybe a radio that doesn’t tune in quite right to Race Horse Radio? Aaa Auto Salvage can help save you money with quality recycled auto parts. With locations in Rosemount and East Bethel you are never far from a great deal on auto parts. Visit www.aaaparts.com, go to the blog, and find a printable coupon for $25 off your next purchase and....Get USED to it."
If you have maybe that is why you are here on this page of the blog, looking for your $25 off coupon. We are glad that you have stopped on aaaparts.com, and hope that you have found the part that you were searching for. If you have not found the part via our online search function, please do give one of our industry leading sales staff a call, and have them assist you in the search. We want to help solve your automotive part problem.
If you do find your part, please cut out, or print out this page and bring it in with you. When you check out we will discount your purchase $25. We ask that you only use one coupon per household. If you need more parts in the future let us know and we can make sure that you get a good deal on the parts that you need.
A local television station did a story on speeding tickets in the 7 county Metro Area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. If you want to see the full story you can go to kstp.com, but one mention in the story caught my attention. The story reported that the Minnesota State Patrol has issued 41% less speeding tickets, but has increased the citations for Seat Belt use. The story says that is one main reason that traffic deaths in Minnesota is at lowest point since 1944.
As I thought about it I thought there are many other factors at work in the safety on Minnesota Roads and I want to use the blog to get that information out there. Since aaa is an auto recycler that has been in business for 28 years, we have seen the drastic changes in automobiles over that time. I have my thoughts on the top 5 reasons that go along with Seat Belt usage (it probably is the #1 reason for safety if they are used) for the reduction in traffic deaths.
- Air Bags. The introduction in SRS systems that are designed to work in conjunction with the seat belts have done an incredible job in keeping occupants safe in vehicle crashes. Not only are the number of airbags in vehicles increasing with each model year release, but the places they are installed in vehicles is just plain great engineering.
- High Strength Steels – The auto industry has made the occupant areas of vehicles out of high (no very high) strength steels that are so very rigid that they stay intact while in crashes and transfer the collision energy to other parts of the vehicle.
- Drunk Driving awareness. The MADD and SADD chapters have helped the awareness of drunk driving and the dram shop laws that forced bars and restaurants to train their staff on serving alcoholic beverages. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration statistics show that in 2010 about 1/3 of all traffic accidents involving a fatality, also involve alcohol.
- Motorcycle safety. Here in Minnesota the helmet law is only applicable to riders under the age of 18 or riders with an instruction permit, but you will notice on the roadways that more riders are wearing helmets than are not.
- Gas Prices & Behavior changes. I know it seems like the easy thing these days to blame, but if you follow the logic – I think it does contribute to a reduction in traffic deaths. As gas prices increase more people turn to Mass Transit options to “save money.” I think there is also a bigger squeeze on the younger drivers, who tend to make less money and thus have less money to spend on higher gas. If the younger drivers are off the road the statistics for fatalities will follow. Less young drivers on the road will bring the numbers down because motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for persons between the ages of 3 – 34.
10 things you should do in a Minnesota Summer.
When and IF, the summer of 2011 ever arrives, below are 10 things that the employees at aaa Auto Salvage think that you should do, see or take part in during the Summer of 2011. If there are some that you think we missed or that you think should be added to the list, let us know!
10 – Have dinner outside on a patio, could be a restaurant or your own.
9 – Get a neighborhood game of kick the can or capture the flag going, AFTER DARK
8 – Take in a day of racing at Canterbury Park; you could turn $2 in to $200 or more!
7 – Go to Duluth – Canal Park or even farther North to the North Shore. See Lake Superior, the largest fresh water body of water in the world.
6 – Have beverage, doesn’t have to be alcohol J, at a waterfront establishment.
5 – Go fishing – most employees here would say on Lake Mille Lacs. If you can’t go there go anywhere.
4 – Go to races at Brainerd International Raceway, try for Nationals in August.
3 – Go to a Twins game @ Target Field.
2 – Back to the 50’s car show @ state fair grounds
1 – The State Fair, for people watching and eating.
Hunter Hayes Debuts First Single: Storm Warning
Written by Truong NguyenRemeber when aaa Auto Salvage produced the Winner's Circle trade show and Convention? Hunter played at the fundraiser we did for th Courage Center 7 years ago.
Great job Hunter! We always knew you'd make the big time!
