Sarah from http://www.waldorfdodge.com and In this episode of our video blog we talk about and easy decision for your next family trip, Show you how to be Chic and stylish all while keeping it old school and go up north to see how much wood a woodchuck can chuck!
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We are constantly hearing about all the things we should do to our cars to keep them running well and to help them last longer. The folks over at carMD.com have compiled a list of the 10 things that you should NOT do. They did it with some help from the ASE Master Tech committee.
So, without further ado, here are the top 10 maintenance mistakes made by car owners…
1. Putting off recommended / scheduled maintenance
2. Ignoring the “check engine” light
3. Not changing the oil, or not having it changed on time
4. Not checking tire pressure
5. Neglecting coolant, brake, transmission and other fluid services
6. Continuing to drive when the vehicle is overheating
7. Not changing fuel and air filters
8. Having unqualified shops service your vehicle
9. Using generic aftermarket parts instead of original equipment manufacturer (OEM)-quality parts
10. Trying to service your own high-tech vehicle
The general consensus is to follow the factory maintenance schedule for your vehicle and don’t just ignore those lights on your dashboard. Have them checked out by a trained professional. Contact your Southern Maryland Dodge repair shop to make an appointment. Waldorf Dodge is located on Route 301 North in Waldorf, just 15 minutes south of Washington DC.
I can’t believe it has taken this long for us to get our act together and introduce Rami to you. Rami is an important member of the Waldorf Dodge team. He is the Price Defender for all of our customers and potential customers. You see, Rami shops all of the Dodge and Ram dealers in Maryland and Virginia to make sure that our prices are competitive if not better that the other dealers in the market.
Rami does more than price shop, he also watches the vehicles we have in stock to make sure that we have what you are looking for. If we don’t, he makes sure we can get it. He also checks the vehicles we have to assure they are clean and ready for you to take for a spin whenever you come in.
So if you live in Maryland or Virginia and are shopping for a new Dodge or a new Ram, come by and see Rami at Waldorf Dodge. Waldorf Dodge is located on Route 301 North in Waldorf, just 15 minutes South of Washington DC. You can also view our entire inventory from the comfort of your home, online at waldorfdodge.com.
Ram 1500 is the truck for you, that is, should you want power, fuel efficiency and reliability.
Many users favorite feature about this truck is that the new environmentally-friendly, fuel efficient technology, does not come at the cost of the power that many have come to rely on from Ram. The core values of the truck are still there and are actually improved. The new air suspension system was enough to impress Motor Trend judges, helping the Ram 1500 haul the Truck of the year award home.
The new Ram 1500 is able to haul more, quicker and at a lower cost to the owner. Trucks have always been work vehicles, and the Ram 1500 works as hard as the people who use it. The Pride and enthusiasm that went into making and designing the 1500 far exceeds what was expected. The truck has everything you need, and has options for everything you could want.
So if you want a truck that performs, and is fuel efficient, Waldorf Dodge recommends the new Ram 1500 is the truck for you. For more information about the Ram 1500 come by and see us, at 2450 Crain Highway Waldorf, MD 20601 or check out our website here.
A recent photo has been making its rounds through various social networks, encouraging readings to celebrate New Years safely, though not necessarily soberly, we at Waldorf Dodge would like to do the same and have compiled a list of Soberride programs in the Maryland area. Add these numbers to your cellphone before heading out tonight.
Additional Sober-ride programs can be found below. Happy News.
MARYLAND
ANNAPOLIS
Be My DD
Phone: 1-877-823-6933
Hours: 24/7
Details: A driver takes you home in your own vehicle
http://www.bemydd.com/our_services
BALTIMORE
Safe Ride Solutions
Hours: 24/7
Details: For corporations only with membership – fees apply
https://www.saferidesolutions.net/index.html
Be My DD
Phone: 1-877-823-6933
Hours: 24/7
Details: A driver takes you home in your own vehicle
http://www.bemydd.com/our_services
BOWIE
SoberRide
Phone: 1-800-200-8294
Hours: 10p.m-6a.m. during Dec/Jan. holiday season,
St. Patrick’s Day, Independence Day and Halloween
Details: Free cab ride home
COLLEGE PARK
SoberRide
Phone: 1-800-200-8294
Hours: 10p.m-6a.m. during Dec/Jan. holiday season,
St. Patrick’s Day, Independence Day and Halloween
Details: Free cab ride home
GAITHERSBURG
SoberRide
Phone: 1-800-200-8294
Hours: 10p.m-6a.m. during Dec/Jan. holiday season,
St. Patrick’s Day, Independence Day and Halloween
Details: Free cab ride home
GREENBELT
SoberRide
Phone: 1-800-200-8294
Hours: 10p.m-6a.m. during Dec/Jan. holiday season,
St. Patrick’s Day, Independence Day and Halloween
Details: Free cab ride home
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
SoberRide
Phone: 1-800-200-8294
Hours: 10p.m-6a.m. during Dec/Jan. holiday season,
St. Patrick’s Day, Independence Day and Halloween
Details: Free cab ride home
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
SoberRide
Phone: 1-800-200-8294
Hours: 10p.m-6a.m. during Dec/Jan. holiday season,
St. Patrick’s Day, Independence Day and Halloween
Details: Free cab ride home
ROCKVILLE
SoberRide
Phone: 1-800-200-8294
Hours: 10p.m-6a.m. during Dec/Jan. holiday season,
St. Patrick’s Day, Independence Day and Halloween
Details: Free cab ride home
TAKOMA PARK
SoberRide
Phone: 1-800-200-8294
Hours: 10p.m-6a.m. during Dec/Jan. holiday season,
St. Patrick’s Day, Independence Day and Halloween
Details: Free cab ride home
Thinking of customizing your Ram truck? You are not alone. “Ram owners love to accessorize and personalize their trucks..” Pietro Gorlier Mopar’s president and CEO explained. For this very reason, Ram is the most customized Truck in the world. Truck owners typically spend somewhere between $500 and $1500 on the over 9000 accessories available.
Dodge 1500
Waldorf Dodge is your one stop shop for Dodge truck customization and accessories, whether you go to East Coast Moparts, or Dodge Aftermarket, both located within the Waldorf Dodge building.
A popular Aftermarket accessory is the spray in bed liner, an environmentally friendly and fuel efficient option to protect your investment. The spray-in bedliner protects against, rust, scratches, and other damage. Eliminating more than 10 pounds when compared to traditional Drop-in bedliners of yesteryear, the Spray-in Bedliner increase fuel efficiency.
Other popular customization includes Halo and LED projection lights. These lights give users an added brightness, some are designed to work better in fog, rain or typically poor weather and visibility conditions, while the vast majority, seem to give a brighter shine to headlights. Certain Halo lights, also give the impression of pupils, personifying the car and giving letting a little bit of the Truck’s soul shine.
Running Boards, and Nerf boards. With the holiday season approaching, we would not be surprised to see a Ram 1500 with red nosed headlights and a trailer hitch, attached to Santa’s sleigh this year.
Again, all of these options and more are available at Waldorf Dodge, located on 2450 Crain Hwy Waldorf, MD 20601.
A roaring lion greets Faruq Demesme as he enters the fabled MGM Grand and Casino. “You can’t think of MGM without thinking of boxing, without thinking of the lion logo” he said Thursday afternoon. It was this same aggressive machismo that first attracted a younger Faruq to Dodge and to the SRT Viper he is preparing to test drive.
Faruq had not been to Vegas before, yet he would find that stepping onto a plane from comparatively conservative southern Maryland to Sin City was a slight shock in comparison to the Viper’s bite. The new 2013 SRT Viper is among the fastest cars in the world, it is stylish, sleek and the serpentine body is beautiful, and yet that is hardly the reason the car has entered into the international zeitgeist.
Named after a family of venomous snakes, the connotation of naked Eve and temptation is brought to mind. In western culture snakes typically represent evil. Advertisements for the Viper, embolden words like “Obsession” “Emotion” and “passion.” The slogan “it consumes you” Connotation, association and personification meet, characterizing the car, the SRT Viper has a personality. Having appeared on over 100 magazine covers, the Viper is an inanimate celebrity.
“Nervous” he said “excited” having woke up at 3am to catch a five hour flight spent gazing at obstructed skylines between Maryland and Nevada, listening to the almost cliche, surely expected and maybe for those very reasons bothersome, cry of a child. All of that however, was out of his head, he was inside of the Viper.
Before crushing the gas pedal down and seeing the stars stretch and fade, Faruq would notice the improved interior, including graphical information displayed on LCD screens, cruise control, a feature new to Viper, and even the ability to turn on or off, all through the steering wheel.
“The SRT Viper has over five pounds of horse power per pound, making it rank among the most powerful cars in the world” The Waldorf Dodge sells person would say.
The Viper is a paradox, American and yet completely exotic. Those who admire the car, see their reflection not because the mirrors neither the chrome nor shining polish, but inside the essence of Viper.
Faruq Demesme, a salesperson at Waldorf Dodge, now buckled into the handmade car. What happened next would give the 737 Demesme flew in on a run for its money. He took the Viper out of gear.
Faruq was not the only member of Waldorf Dodge to test drive the iconic car, check back soon to read the stories of others as they faced the Viper.
Truck owners are a versatile bunch. Some people rely on their truck for their livelihood while others occasionally haul the boat or trailer to the lake and back. Others use their truck as a massive blinking beacon for their macho-ness, and haul the occasional bags of sand or mulch to justify it. But by and large, most truck owners do a little of everything and lucky for them, the 2013 Ram 1500 lineup has something for everybody.
The 2013 Ram lineup ranges from $22,585 for a base Tradesman model all the way up to $48,415 for a 4×4 Laramie Longhorn crew cab. In between lurks the Tradesman, Express, SLT (the biggest mover volume-wise), Big Horn, Outdoorsman, Sport, Laramie, Longhorn, and finally, of course, the Limited trim. Each model offers a different level of versatility, with some preferring the work site more than others. As for the ultra-luxe trim levels destined to favor hauling people more than cargo, the 2013 Ram 1500 redefines what the luxury pick-up truck is too.
To really see what the latest Ram had to offer, we traveled to Nashville, Tennessee to test out an array of models, and even tow a thing or two as well. During our time down south, we had the opportunity to traverse some back-road hill country, highways, and even some small country roads that slinked through towns inhabited with more cows than humans. But while we were confident the Ram would do all the truck-stuff right, we wondered: With the focus on efficiency these days, can the 2013 Ram 1500’s new Pentastar V-6 compete against the Ford EcoBoost’s fuel economy? Here’s what we found.
Read more: http://www.automotive.com/dodge/ram-1500/2013/first-drive/#ixzz26vEL9hZv
Dodge Brand Launches New Dodge Dart TV Ad as Marketing Launch Shifts Into High Gear
– Multifaceted marketing campaign kicks off Sept. 5 during NFL season opener on NBC network
– New ‘How to Make the Most Hi-tech Car’ TV spot reveals recipe for developing world-class technology and customization features in all-new 2013 Dodge Dart
– Dodge Dart momentum continued to build throughout summer months as vehicles arrived in dealerships
September 5, 2012 , Auburn Hills, Mich. – A change is in the air and it’s not just in the weather. Labor Day may mark the unofficial end of the summer, but it also signifies the beginning of fall, which means football, baseball pennant races, television season premieres and the start of a new multifaceted Dodge Dart advertising campaign.
The Dodge brand debuts a new television commercial for the groundbreaking all-new 2013 Dodge Dart as the marketing launch of its new compact car shifts into high gear beginning Wednesday, Sept. 5. The 30-second “How to Make the Most Hi-tech Car” spot reveals the steps taken to create the class-leading technology and features in the Dodge Dart, including an available 7-inch thin film transistor (TFT) customizable instrument cluster and 8.4-inch touchscreen Uconnect media center.
The spot will join the “How to Change Cars Forever” launch ad and run on network and cable programming, including professional and college football games, regular season and playoff baseball games, network television season premieres and hit shows, news programs, late-night entertainment shows and high-profile broadcast programs such as the “Latin Grammys” and “American Music Awards.” Additional television spots will be added later as the campaign continues to run throughout the remainder of the year.
“With August sales of more than 3,000 units and two consecutive months of nearly 300 percent increases, we are very pleased with how the Dodge Dart has been received in the marketplace,” said Reid Bigland, President and CEO – Dodge Brand, Chrysler Group LLC. “We have been steadily ramping up dealer inventories of the Dart throughout the summer, and the fall marketing campaign will make sure everyone knows about this world-class vehicle that offers segment-leading technology and benefits never before found in a compact car.”
The 90-second “How to Change Cars Forever” spot, which first debuted in July, will run Sept. 5 in the top 25 U.S. markets during the NBC network’s season opening NFL game. The long-form spot will run again over the weekend on the Fox network’s Major League Baseball game (9/8) and Sunday afternoon football games on CBS and Fox.
The extensive Dodge Dart campaign includes digital, newspaper and magazine advertising, including a USA Today newspaper cover wrap (9/6) and “home-page takeovers” on USAToday.com (9/6) and Yahoo.com (9/7). Print advertising continues into the fall with four consecutive Friday print ads running in the USA Today sports section, aligning with weekend football previews, and placements in the television season premiere issues of Entertainment Weekly and People magazines. Print ads will also run in a wide variety of lifestyle, entertainment, auto enthusiast and multicultural publications.
Since the Dodge brand first revealed its recipe for the all-new 2013 Dodge Dart this summer in the “How to Change Cars Forever” TV spot, momentum for its much anticipated entry into the highly competitive compact car segment has continued to build. As vehicles arrived in dealerships nationwide, 30- and 60-second versions of the TV spot aired on major broadcast and cable networks, and in movie theaters across the country. Dodge used high viewership programs, pop culture summer events and online communities to create awareness and interest in the Dart among key consumer groups, including young professionals who may be purchasing their first car and “boomers” who may be re-entering the compact car market looking for mid-size roominess with the affordability and price position of a compact car.
Daily average visits to the Dodge brand website, www.dodge.com, have increased by 30 percent since July. The number of consumers requesting additional information about the 2013 Dodge Dart, called “handraisers,” has increased significantly as well with California leading the states with the largest number of handraisers. Seventy-five percent of those requesting information on the Dodge Dart do not currently own a Chrysler Group vehicle.
‘How to Make the Most Hi-tech Car’ TV Ad
The 30-second commercial is the second installment in the new Dodge Dart marketing campaign, in which the unique process of creating a world-class car today is revealed. In this spot, the Dodge brand outlines, in a humorous way, the steps it took to develop the class-leading technology features of the Dart. These include building a time-machine, traveling forward in time to the year 3000, and bringing back a “Future Guy” who can build the compact car’s extra-large touchscreen and customizable digital dashboard display. He is then sent back to the future and the time machine is destroyed. Easy.
The spot can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/dodge.
Print Ads
The print work supporting the 2013 Dodge Dart campaign showcases the design of the vehicle and features the “New Rules” tagline introduced in the first TV spot. The first two ads contain the headlines, “We Didn’t Tweak Last Year’s. We Invented this Year’s” and “Designed in Michigan. Built in Illinois. Driven in America.”
The TV spots and print ads were created by the Portland, Ore.-based advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy.
About 2013 Dodge Dart
The all-new 2013 Dodge Dart leverages the world-class architecture and DNA of Alfa Romeo and then infuses it with Dodge passion and design, creating an agile, fun-to-drive compact car with mid-size levels of interior roominess and unmatched style, technology, safety and customization. The Dodge Dart brings features and content never before seen in the compact car segment. With a U.S. manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) of just $15,995 (excluding destination), the new Dodge Dart is a thoroughly modern vehicle that’s beautifully designed and crafted with high-quality materials, attention to detail and precision craftsmanship.
With an available fun-to-drive 1.4-liter MultiAir Turbo engine offering up to 41 mpg highway, great ride and handling characteristics compliments of the Alfa Romeo-based chassis, innovative interior style featuring high-quality materials, splashes of color – like Ruby Red and Citrus Peel – and cool technology not found in the segment, like the available class-exclusive 8.4-inch Uconnect Touch Screen and 7-inch thin film transistor (TFT) customizable gauge cluster, as well as class-leading safety features, such as 10 standard air bags, and innovative style including available class-exclusive LED “racetrack” taillamps and integrated dual exhaust, the 2013 Dodge Dart sets a new standard in the compact car segment.
Learn more about the all-new Dart at http://www.Dodge.com or http://www.facebook.com/Dodge, or stop in to see us at Waldorf Dodge. We are located on Route 301 North in Waldorf MD, just 15 minutes south of Washington DC.
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Waldorf Dodge is located on Route 301 North in Waldorf MD, just 15 minutes south of Washington DC. Call 800-883-1508 or visit us online at waldorfdodge.com
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