Many a times we neglect to examine our car’s radiator and coolant hoses but ignoring the same can cause greater mess. Ignored and worn out hoses usually prevent your engine to run smoothly without any flaw as the engine is supplied with vital liquids. Therefore checking out your car’s radiator and coolant hoses is a standard practice in any vehicle tune-up.
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This is quite irritating when the windshield washing fluid barely makes it to the bottom of the windshield while driving during the inclement weather. The trouble sets when the windshield fluid travels through the tubes and then to nozzles mounted on the hood of your car. And the result is that the plugs in the tubes cause low pressure. All this leads to more mess as windshield wipers not able to clean the windshield perfectly and the complete tube is clogged with dirt and debris. Therefore it’s important to clean and flush off the windshield washer’s fluid lines from time to time and include the process in the routine maintenance of your car.
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Are you stuck in the middle of your journey to home and do not have the jumper cables to start your vehicle? Don’t get disturbed as it is quite easy to jump start your car with a manual transmission. Without jumper cables all you require to start your vehicle is a stretch of downhill road. This trick is really helpful as you are using the weight of the car to force an engine to turn over. This automatically results into a quick start up of a car without the use of any battery.
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Many a times we ignore the importance of battery in our vehicle and thereafter face trouble because of the same. Car’s battery is quite a significant component of your vehicle and without it your car won’t start. Even the temperature affects the battery’s performance, and when the battery is at 0 degrees F, only half of the normal cranking power will be produced whereas the drop in temperature of 20 degrees F, it will raise out less power capacity. So here are some steps to warm up your battery so that you can easily start your vehicle.
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Sometimes, the smell of cigarette smoke just refuse to go out of your cars interior no matter how many tricks you apply. The basic reason behind this permanent smoke smell is the presence of smoke particle on or under your cars fabric. Here are few tips to get rid of smoke smell present in your car’s interior.
1)First of all test the multi-surface fabric cleaner for discoloration on any hidden spot of your car’s fabric. If everything goes well and there is no discoloration, than your fabric cleaner is up to mark for this task.
When you buy a new car, the best you can do for it is a proper maintenance. A well maintained car last longer and performs better. Moreover, the cost of maintenance can be decreased considerably by following a few car preventive car maintenance tips. In other words you need to understand your car better and should give priority to its time to time maintenance. Let us understand what the preventive car maintenance basically is.
Preventive Maintenance: - Preventive maintenance is the kind of maintenance that prevents the essential parts of your car from wearing-out early. This is because a machine needs proper protection and that too in time. Otherwise, even a small fault can grow-up the irreparable condition and you might end-up paying more than double on getting replaced this permanently faulty part.
The rainy season comes with a need of protecting your vehicle from getting damaged from water. Parking or driving your car on waterlogged streets can be highly dangerous for it, thus, a number of precautions are needed to be taken during this season. Below are few preventive tips in order to save your vehicle from getting damaged.
1)Insurance Cover: – The best cover for your vehicle during heavy rains is an insurance cover. Don’t forget to renew or update the insurance policy of you car so that the expense of repairing of any unfortunate damange in the car can be fully/partially reimbursed by the insurance provider. The comprehensive motor policy of a vehicle generally covers damage due to inundation, flood, earthquake etc.
After the era of notchy manual transmissions, car enthusiasts now look for the easy automatic transmission cars. Although collection of automatic transmission cars is very less in India, but most the car owners drop the automatic transmission variant purchase due to its complicated & costly maintenance procedure. No doubt, there are automatic transmission maintenance instructions given in the service manual or the owners’ manual, but we sometimes neglect them. In India small cars like Hyundai i10 and A –star are blessed with the automatic transmission variants, while there are ample of choices for the AT versions in the compact sedan and sedan segment. Here are few guidelines that would help you to maintain the automatic transmission of your car thereby, incurring lesser cost of maintenance.
1) The first sign of misappropriation of an automatic transmission vehicle is the leaks on the place where you generally park the vehicle. Therefore, always check if there are some oil drops or leak spots at the place where you generally park your vehicle at home. If you find some leaks, rush to the service outlet as further delay many incur higher cost of maintenance. (more…)
When it comes to maintaining a car, most of us do a considerably good job by timely changing oil and air filters, and topping-up the essential fluids like brake fluid and transmission fluid. But have you ever done the same for your brake fluid? Most people don’t. In other words, despite being one of the most important fluids from the safety point of view, the brake fluids are perhaps the most neglected fluid in your car. Below are some basic information regarding the functioning of brake fluid along with reasons of its contamination.
Reason of Increasing Moisture Content: - Every time you open the master cylinder for checking the level of brake fluid, it tends to capture the moisture from the air. The high the moister content in brake fluid, the lesser its efficiency. As per the auto engineering experts, cars only one year old can have brake fluid with moisture contamination of two percent and even higher. Affects of Increased Moisture Content: - Generally, under extreme brake uses the essential brake components including rotors, pads, drums, and shoes tend to reach the high temperatures of over 400 to 500 degree. The DOT 3 brake fluid will begin to boil when it crosses a temperature of 400 degrees. But if the moisture content in your brake fluid has been increased to up to 3 percent, its boiling temperature reduces by up to 25 percent. The basic reason behind this is that when brake fluid gets exposed to the high temperatures, the moisture content present in fluid starts turning into stream and remains as an incompressible part of fluid. This in turn reduces stopping ability of the braking system.
When the car door comes in contact with water, salt and road grim collect, the rust starts surfacing on its exposed metal due to the reaction of oxidation. Rust present on your car’s body not only proves a road-presence spoiler for your car but also poses a danger of growing from a small spot to whole car body. The rust generally starts developing on metal exposed through scratches on car’s body. The immediate removal of rust ensures that it will not spread to other parts of the car. Here are few easy tips for removing rust from a car door.
1)First try to remove the rust with the help of 100-grit sandpaper. Keep sanding the rusted surface till you can see the bare surface.
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