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1 - analysis Your Car Tires
Check your tires regularly. Not accomplishing so can advance to active on low tread, which will abate your anchor on the road. Tires get worn, they advance cracks, bulges, you can get burden credibility in odd places, baby altar can get in the tread. These are all bad things. Most car tires accept footstep abrasion indicators, these are usually six baby ribs beyond the basal of the grooves of the capital tread. back the footstep apparent gets to the aforementioned akin as the ribs, afresh it's time to get your tires changed.
2 - analysis Your Tire burden back Your Tires Are Cold
Tire burden should be arrested already a week, you can get the actual tire burden for your car from your owners manual. back your tires accept the appropriate bulk of air in them, the car brakes and handles correctly. If the tire burden is too high, afresh you will lose adherence in braking and cornering, it's additionally easier to accident a aerial burden tire.
Tire burden should be arrested back the tires are algid - aural a few afar of driving, tires become warm, and blockage balmy tires gives an inaccurate reading.
3 - analysis Your Engine Oil
Most avant-garde cars tend to be acceptable at application oil, with that said, if your car isn't topped up with oil, afresh the engine could get damaged, or could overheat. First of all, accomplish abiding the car engine is cold, and the car is on akin ground. acquisition out what affectionate of oil your car takes from the owners manual, and get some. Next, booty the dipstick out and apple-pie it clean.
Reinsert the dipstick fully, cull it out again, and analysis that the oil goes up to a point amid the "F" and "L" marks. L stands for Low, so if the oil is low, you charge to add more. Locate the oil accompaniment cap, this is usually on the top of the engine. alleviate the oil accompaniment cap anxiously and abode to one side. Pour in a baby bulk and re-check the akin with the dipstick. Over-filling can account as abundant botheration as accepting not abundant oil, so err on the ancillary of caution.
4 - analysis The Engine Coolant / Anti-freeze ( back the car is cold, and be accurate )
Nobody wants their car to overheat - a abridgement of coolant could account this to happen. It's best to analysis the akin of coolant afore a continued journey.
It's important to agenda that engine coolant is poisonous and acerb - if it gets on your bark or the cars' bodywork, ablution it off, quickly.
Your owners chiral will advice you acquisition the engine coolant reservoir. analysis that the accepted akin is amid minimum and best levels. If the coolant is low, add added fluid.
Make abiding that the car is algid afore attempting to re-fill with coolant. If the car has been running, afresh the engine and radiator will be hot, and hot aqueous could escape from the radiator and bake you. abode a bolt over the coolant accompaniment cap and boring alleviate it, enabling any burden to escape. afresh ample the backlog to the best mark, and alter the cap.
5 - analysis your shock absorbers.
This is a nice and accessible test, it can be affectionate of fun too. aloof advance bottomward on anniversary bend of your car, and afresh release. The car should achieve into its' accustomed position afterwards one or two bounces. If it takes best than one or two bounces, afresh you charge to alter your shock absorbers.
6. analysis Your brakes (Use Your Ears).
You should get your braking arrangement arrested every 10,000 afar or already a year. It helps to be acquainted of the feel of the brakes back you are active - if you apprehension a abridgement of compactness in the brakes, or if you accept to advance the anchor to the attic afore annihilation happens, get it arrested - it could be that you accept a aperture in your braking system, or that the aqueous akin is low.
If you're accepting a afraid or beating in the pedal, or the council wheel, that may advance that you charge backup rotors, or they may aloof charge re-surfacing. If you get a squealing sound, afresh that says your anchor pads are cutting thin. If you get a cutting sound, or metal-on-metal, afresh you could accept austere problems, and should get addition to attending at your brakes ASAP.
7. Top Up Your anchor aqueous (Be actual Careful)
Without anchor fluid, your brakes won't work. So it's important to accomplish abiding you've got some in the car. anchor aqueous is actual toxic, so if you're not adequate administration poisons, get an able in to do the job. If you are administration it, accumulate it abroad from your easily and eyes, and abstain spilling it on the arena - pets accept been accepted to eat it off the attic and die. additionally accumulate it abroad from paint-work, as it's acerb too. analysis the owners manual, and acquisition the anchor aqueous reservoir. As with the added fluids in the car, if the aqueous is beneath the MIN level, afresh add aqueous until it alcove MAX.
8. If It Keeps Leaking...
If you are accepting to add aqueous to the car often, afresh get your braking arrangement arrested by a able mechanic, as you may accept a leak. One added affair - never, anytime let baptize into the braking system. Ever.
9. analysis Your Handbrake
Find yourself a nice quiet alley with an acclivity (not accessible to do area we are in Norfolk, England, because it's mainly flat). cull the handbrake on. The handbrake should appoint aural a few clicks. If it takes too continued afresh you charge to get the cable and rear calipers arrested by a mechanic.
Stick to these basal rules and you should accept trouble-free driving.
Happy active !
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