How to Keep a Car Running Forever

There are a few thing you can do when driving that will cut your maintenance costs by a huge amount, and not all of them are obvious.

Engine.

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Drive off as soon as the motor starts.

Lets begin with beginning the car. Older cars needed to warm up before being driven. This was because fuel compound was poor when they used carburetors, and it would whether have too much petrol or too much air, in other words, until the car machine was warm, the car would struggle to run properly and cause damage to the motor when driven cold.

All late-model cars, even 15-year-old ones, no longer run with a crude compound when cold. Driving off as soon as you start the motor will save fuel and machine wear, as newer motors have great lubrication systems. The motor will warm up quicker under load when being driven resulting in less machine wear.

One proviso: Don't drive a cold motor hard. It will wear out much quicker. A light driving style will warm the motor without stressing engineering components in the motor.

Suspension.

Go very gently over speed humps.

Your cars suspension has to compress when you go over an uneven surface. The shock absorbers on all four wheels have to dampen that compression to allow for a comfortable ride as well as keep the wheel in taste with the road. This force os transmitted to your car's chassis.

A lot of parts get stressed when we drive over speed humps, suspension gets taken to the limit if we go over them too quickly. I see 4 wheel drives and others rush across them quite conveniently even at speed. Some cars do the same, giving a perfectly good ride inside the car.

The qoute is that the constant pressures on the suspension stresses everything in your car. The body gets twisted, compressed and stretched resulting in fractures in metal, rattles, electrical problems often fabricate from the shock, springs get worn out, shock absorbers, exhaust mounting points, ball joints, metal that receives these stresses are degraded by traveling too fast over speed humps and other obstructions.

Electrical.

Keep your battery terminals clean.

The battery is the life of your electrical system, supplying power for beginning the motor and running all the lights and gadgets in your car, yet it is often ignored.

Terminals must be tight and clean. You can buy a small brass brush that cleans the terminal and the inside of the battery lead for about . A 12 volt battery should be producing more than 13.5 volts when working correctly, and voltage drop affects machine carrying out as well as any heavy storage loss will mean that the starter motor for your machine will not be strong adequate to start categorically if at all.

Body.

Keep it clean inside and out.

This is pretty obvious, but what I am talking about is the water galleries. In the bottom of your doors, fenders, trunk and under the bonnet near the windscreen are holes and passageways for water to exit the body. If these holes get blocked through not being cleaned normally the water will sit there and rust your car body.

Thanks for reading, and happy motoring!

How to Keep a Car Running Forever

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