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Serious yet basic car maintenance tips that will help save your money in your bank account

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Serious yet basic car maintenance tips that will help save your money in your bank account

It is all about knowing the simple car keepers tips Using a few simple car maintenance tips to to put into practice now and again is a useful part of car owning. We dont all have a pot of wealth lying their just for your automobile servicing, it does get expensive. What is the easiest way to drag them expenditures downwards? The sensible best thing you can do is learn and do regular servicing on your car. Stay vigil and if anything at all bothers you, look deeper or get it looked over by a garage, this of course helps stop small gremlins growing in to big expensive repairs. Nowadays to many of us do not like to get our fingers mucky or even go beneath the bonnet in the cold. That is fine, however their is a couple simple things that you can do to help the maintenance and continue your motors condition in between major servicing. Trust me an oil change with a little practise is seriously a fairly simple bit of motor maintenance to perform. However what we are going to look at is those jobs you can complete without requiring to free up a complete day and lie under a auto on a hard cold tarmac floor. First off: Tires. These really are important simply because its those that do glue the vehicle to the roads at 55kph and considering you stroll by them so often, we should give them a look a few of times a week. Get a little tire pressure gauge to keep in your glove box. In your automobile manual, if you dont have one check online, work out what your tyre pressure should be and check it twice a month. You must do this because tyres not fully inflated defiantly burn more gas. They will also wear down faster, and if these tires require extra inflation often this is a sign of a puncture that could probably be fixed instead of not finding out until it is fully popped and so requiring a whole new tire. Keeping the windscreen transparent: Screen Wash Make sure its filled up,as easy as that and use some detergent as well as water. The other reasons for keeping your window wash topped up is you will extending the life of your wipers.If you

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should run out of screen wash and use your windscreen wipers dry it tears and perishes the rubber. Also running them dry can scrape your screen. One final reason to stay ahead with the screen wash is if you run it out you also run the risk of blowing the motor because of overheating. Keeping that power house cool: THE ENGINE COOLANT

Whilst you have the jug of water and your bonnet up for your screen wash, check the engine coolant level. It should be in between the min and maximum mark. You must never take the lid off if the engine is hot as this will possibly burn you due to it shooting out under high pressure. If you feel you are leaking water take it to a mechanic, you will possibly have found a serious fault just in time. If the engine water drops low and you don't check it often, not only will you miss a potential problem. Low water ends in the engine over heating which could create all sorts of costly engine failure. So with these car maintenance tips, if you can stick to them, you can understand that these can save you cash and also more importantly inconvenience and trouble.

So put them in your note pad and calender and get in the habit of making them part of your motoring life.