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The Zombies Have It: Hyundai Expands 'Walking Dead' Deal

After this summer, Hyundai will see one nifty product-placement platform disappear but is doubling down on another.  USA Network’s Burn Notice will end but Hyundai’s relationship with AMC’s mega-hit The Walking Dead will continue and expand in a number of ways.

A kiwi green Hyundai Tucson SUV is transporting survivors on this season of dead, and Hyundai of America CMO Steve Shannon told me that the company is finalizing a new deal for the next season of Dead that begins in October.

“This show has been remarkable,” Shannon said. “Who would have expected that, in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic, it would become the No. 1 show on TV? The fact is that in that metric it outranks a lot of network shows, like [ABC's] Modern Family.”

So like many of the show’s stubborn band of resisters, the green Tucson has survived into next season. Hyundai also is returning to promote its vehicle and brand at the Comic-Con International annual conference in San Diego this summer and plans a tie-in with Robert Kirkman, author of the Walking Dead comics and executive producer of the show.

And Hyundai has found a way to leverage its association with The Walking Dead beyond just the Tucson featured in the show also to include other Hyundai vehicles including the Veloster, Elantra and Santa Fe. “While we’d like to have them find a Santa Fe in the post-apocalyptic world on the show where there is no car production, it’s hard to imagine them doing that,” Shannon said.
However, as detailed in a story in Variety last month, show producers were able to keep the kiwi green Tucson reasonably pristine during the just-completed season of The Walking Dead, making sure, among other things, that it was never seen smeared with zombie blood or breaking down.
The company’s deal with AMC to expand its involvement with the show platform in a broader way is an indicator of things to come at Hyundai. “We’re going to be looking for more opportunities like this where we can get value beyond just the TV show’s ratings,” Shannon said. “That means working with more shows that have second-screen opportunities and big social-media followings.”

Hyundai also got great treatment in Burn Notice, a once-hot show that will be discontinued after this summer’s seventh season. Typically, a Hyundai Genesis driven by the character Fiona Glenanne, girlfriend of protagonist Michael Westen, has been seen tooling around South Beach in Miami, outpacing bad guys, and often with lingering camera shots of the Hyundai logo.
“The car fits in great and looks great” on Burn Notice, Shannon said earlier this year. “We like that show.”

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Spring Driving Tips

Keep these driving tips in mind this spring as you travel:

• Hitting potholes can throw your car's front end out of alignment. If you feel your car "pulling" during driving, that's a clue that you could have a problem. Check the tread on your tires: uneven tread wear can be a sign of misalignment. If you hit a severe pothole, have us check your vehicle's alignment and tire balance.
  
• When you hit a pothole you can damage your tire and/or the metal wheel of your vehicle. Keeping your tires properly inflated will help reduce damage from potholes and other road hazards.
   
• The impact of potholes on tires increases dramatically with speed and can cause hidden, internal damage that could lead to tire failure weeks, or even months, later. It is best to avoid potholes entirely, but if that's not possible, don't brake during pothole impact. Instead, apply brakes before hitting a pothole and release them just prior to impact. Braking during the impact sets up the tire and wheel assembly for a "solid hit" against the edge of the hole. Less severe damage occurs when a tire is rolling than when it is skidding over a hole during braking.

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How To Change A Flat Tire

There’s no sound  as disheartening to a driver than the flop flop of a flat tire. They always seem to come at inconvenient times, too. But to a man who knows how to change a flat, that flopping noise is a chance to display his self-sufficiency.

Just like knowing how to jumpstart a car, knowing how to change a flat tire is a skill every man should possess. It will save your own butt when you’re out on some lonely stretch of highway and come in handy when helping a damsel in distress or a hapless traveler on the side of the road. Follow these steps and you’ll back on the road in no time.

Tools needed: Spare tire, jack, lug wrench.
1. Park your car on a flat surface. If you get a flat while on the road, pull your car as far away from traffic as possible . Make sure to put on the emergency brake. It’s also recommended to put a block on the tire opposite of the flat tire. Put to use that fruitcake from Aunt Gertie you’ve been toting around in the trunk. Here’s a blocking example: if your right rear tire is flat, put the block on the front left tire.
2. Remove the hubcap. If your car has a hubcap, remove it so you can get to the lug nuts. Use the hubcap to hold the nuts, just like the dad in A Christmas Story. Just don’t let your kid hold the hubcap or he’ll lose them and drop the F-bomb.
3. Loosen the nuts. Grab your lug wrench and place it on the flat tire’s lug nuts. Loosen them up by turning them counterclockwise. The nuts are probably on there really tight, so you’ll have to use all your man strength to unscrew them. Loosen the nuts a few turns, but don’t take any of them off yet!
4. Place the jack underneath your car. Check your owner’s manual for the correct placement of the jack. Turn the hand crank at the end of the jack to raise the jack until it comes into contact with your car’s frame. Make sure it’s touching a sturdy spot.
5. Jack it up! Start cranking the jack until the wheel is high enough above the ground to remove the tire.
6. Remove the flat. Remove the lug nuts from the wheel. You should be able to do it by hand because you’ve already loosened them. Remove the flat tire and lay it flat. You don’t want the wheel to roll into traffic during rush hour and cause a thirty car pile-up.
7. Slap on your spare. Take your spare tire and line up the lugs, or bolts, with the holes in the wheel and slide the wheel on. Once the wheel is on, take your lug nuts and tighten them by hand until you meet firm resistance.
8. Lower the car. Lower the jack until the wheel is firmly on the ground.
9. Finish tightening your lug nuts. These babies must be on super tight so the wheel doesn’t come flying off while driving to the tire shop to get the flat fixed. So you need to unleash the super power of the star pattern to get those lugs tighter than a deer tick. Use this tightening pattern if you have five bolts on your wheel. Start with any lug nut and then follow this pattern:

If your car has four, use this pattern:

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