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Top guide of improving life of your car
Since of economic crisis in USA, there are most people have to decreasing their budget in spending money. One of the side effect is people will have to keep their cars much longer. They want to reduce the cost of maintenance and fuel. So, the better you maintain your car, the longer it will last. Here you will get some tips to maintain your car.
Car engine
Engine is the most important aspect of maintaining your car. There are many parts of it which connected each other. The first thing you should notice are all the fast moving parts, there are oil engine, oil gearbox & transmission, oil filter, air filter and spark plug. Also make sure tune up the engine regularly. If your car engine is health and well maintained, your car will run smoothly and saves fuel.
Brakes
The next important things to overlook is brakes. Most people do not really make attention for them. The brake is one of critical part of the car for safety. Maintaining the brake will ensure your own safety when driving and avoiding you from expensive repair. The maintaining your brakes could be like always checks the brake fluid and pad brakes regularly. Make sure the brake fluid is enough and the pad brake thickness is good and for type of brake drum, always clean the drum regularly. It is wise to make your driving style is moderate and anticipate your car's stop and brake smoothly. By doing this way can save up a lot of money for repairment.
Tyres and Wheels
This is also important things which affecting your car running and comfortable. Maintaining your tyres can be done with simple thing such as always check the air pressure is enough and make the pressure 1-2 psi more than normal pressure, check the thickness of tire groove is more than 3 mm, avoiding rough road surface and over loading carries.
Beside tyres, the wheels also will affect your car running. The well maintained wheels will make your car keep running straight and prevent from excessive thing such as over steer and under steer effect. Maintaining the wheels can be done with wheels alignment and balancing. This can add up save your tyres and fuel consumption.
Those are most important things to maintain your car due to retrenchment. When your car is well maintained, the much longer your car will be and avoid you from unnecessary cost of repairment.
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