Perhaps you are one of a very busy person, a task force to frequently travel outside the city or the country in the long term. If you have a private car, it should be noted that when returned later, the vehicle is not in the condition of abandoned or tragic. The first step you should do is to wash the car before abandonment. Then, follow these tips:
1. The position of the handbrake released
If left in a state of emergency brake in, especially for a prolonged period, will occur adhesiveness between oil disc brakes, especially for vehicles that have Tromol the rear wheels. One additional thing, it is better you leave the car keys depending on your vehicle’s steering wheel. If your house has a maid, this will be very useful for heating a vehicle every day. But do not leave your car keys if it does not have a garage or out in the open.
2. Wiper with foam padding or logs
When kept in contact with the windshield, wiper rubber will slowly harden and no longer pliable. As a result, these rubber (commonly called dead rubber) will be rough in the future be used to wash your windshield.
3. Try all four tires in the state were raised, does not stick to the floor
Way, simply by using a jack and a stand-jack. The intent was awake and not a car suspension is burdened by heavy vehicles. A car that is never used in a long time suspension will usually go up and down, so that when used later, the car will feel uncomfortable.
4. Remove the battery if the car is more than two weeks left
Why? The reason is because car batteries are very sensitive. When the vehicle was not turned on at all in two weeks or more (especially when you leave home there are no helpers), it will affect the battery, which can be damaged faster than the vehicle is used daily.
5. When the parking lot side, chock your tires with four beams
This applies to those that have a garage with a sloping surface. In the first tips that are not mentioned either enter a position if the vehicle handbrake was left long enough, but how if the surface is tilted? It is easy, simply chock all four tires with blocks or other hard object so that the car has not changed position.
6. Put fragrances, cars, and cars with a cover cap
Fragrances, serves to neutralize the musty odor that may arise because the space in a closed car in a long time. In addition, cars that are left in the open state also allows dust particles to enter the car through the cracks, which it certainly is not desired by any car owner. To avoid it, just buy an ordinary car covers are sold in car accessory shops.
Rain and intense heat usually become the main enemy of rubbers in the car.
Components that include rubber wiper, doors, hood, glass edging, and much more. When it comes to neglected,the potential becomes painfully annoying when driving.
In order elasticity and suppleness awake, spray containing silicone fluid, at least once a month.
Follow these steps to maintain.
• Prepare tools and equipment such as wet and dry cloth, brush, moisturizing liquids containing silicone rubber.
• Clean the surface first and the surrounding rubber.
• Besides the cloth, use a brush to clean the dust that was still attached.
• Spray containing silicone rubber all over evenly.
• Another way is to spray into the sponge. Next apply a liquid rubber component was washed over the target.
• Allow for a moment and make sure the liquid is absorbed into the rubber.
• The rubber components are ready to appear fresher.
Remember, this step is a component of prevention in order to function until the rubber was not damaged. The steps above do not apply for a broken rubber.
Leaky tire problem is very difficult, especially cars. As we was enjoying the journey, suddenly a flat tire due to hit a nail or similar sharp object. We need to replace a leaking tire with a spare tire, and brought to the workshop to patch it. What is ’suffering’ we end up? The answer is: Yes, because now ’suffering’ that continued into our tires!
What are carried out by a tire? Tires that had been intact now pierced with a skewer tool for your little finger. Tires that had been leaked just the tip of the needle, made hollow like the mouth of the pipe. Wow, we dead been the fate of our car tires. It’s known, since that was patched tubeless tire type alias without tires.
Once punched, the rope corking into the hole fiber strain tire with enough potential to further damage the tire. Starting from the rubber material, woven yarn to woven wire made tear and break apart, so that we become increasingly weak tires. This is the form after the end of our tire patched pay 80-10 thousand silver.
For the first time that the patch might still be able to survive for several weeks or months. But if it is leaking again at the same spot, which certainly could not be corked with a rope’s fibers. Well, is forced to use the inner tube.
With little effort and rubber glue, you can avoid further damage and to extend the age of your tires. Pump up your tires full of air, and turn slowly while watering the surface with water. After the air bubbles visible sign of the hole, circle the leaking area with paint or the like as a marker.
Collapse tires and rinse the area around the hole, and then leaked it with a dry cloth wipe. After drying completely, drop hole with any brand of rubber glue, so that the glue seeps into the hole. Help infiltration into the tire with glue jabbing a pointed object such as a pin or small nail into the hole clean, dry and wait for several minutes.
The final step, pump up the tires filled with air and slowly pour water into the hole that has been patched, to ensure that the hole has patched well. Make filling process, from beginning to end with great care and caution, so you do not need to repeat it if there is a failure.
Some advantages of this model such fillings are:
- Strong and anti-failure. Power glue adhesive or rubber adhesive power is higher than the cohesive power of the rubber itself. So this point becomes more powerful than the others. No part may fall off or bounce, as they only use glue. Moreover, the patched section is a very small hole.
- Does not weaken the tires a bit for the network.
- Not add any mass balancing aka affect balance.
- There will never tire in need throughout the life of the tire. Using tires in increasing costs, complicating the wheel settings, the reliability is lower and the risk of failure is much higher.
- Does not depend on others and tire workers as well as the tools that can be more complicated physical damage tires.
- The condition of the tires remained intact, as if it never had a leaky tire. No damage gum tissue, yarn and tire cord.
So, wants to prove? No harm in trying, right?
How much of our attention on the vehicle that we use every day? Often we ignore regular maintenance on our cars so that its condition remains excellent. Maybe this is trivial, but if not carried out could cause a bigger problem and requires expensive repair costs.
Car components have an age or lifetime and it can be extended with an easy and inexpensive maintenance. Here are the steps that can be done to prevent damage before their time.
- Before you turn off the engine, reduce the volume and turn off the vehicle’s audio system. With the machine shut off the audio before, at least the audio system does not store electricity. If the remains are still stored electrical current, voltage spikes occur is feared that resulted in an audio system become damaged.
- Straighten your car tires when parking before the machine off. In quiet conditions and wheel deflected, then the engine rpm will go up if the car back is turned. Because, power steering designed to work in a state is not straight. When the steering wheel straight, the engine will reach the round of stationary and power steering are not working fully. Thus, power steering components including the oil will remain durable.
- Turn off air conditioner before the engine is turned off first. This allows bearings or wheel bearings and some components of the AC compressor will live long. Therefore, these components do not stop abruptly when its round was high.
- For turbo-engined car, leave the engine to shut down for a moment before. When stationary engines, bearings or bearing lubrication flow turbo in a stable condition. So that conditions would be more durable bearings considering the performance is strongly influenced bearing turbo.
- Check tire pressure frequently. Lack of wind pressure can make the surface uneven tire wear. To be more perfect, you should do periodically tire rotation every 10,000 km or six months.
- Prevent windshield when the car parked in the blistering. You can use cardboard, newspaper, or cloth to cover the windshield so that ultraviolet rays from the sun does not enter into the cabin. UV rays can fade fabrics made of foam seat cushions and become brittle.
- Avoid high-speed hit the hole. If it is too often forced, the age of suspension and tires will be broken.
- Do not let the engine speed is too high. When you transmit your car manual, gear position to immediately move the lower positions. In addition to keeping the engine does not overheat and remain durable, as well as fuel consumption becomes more economical.
- Perform routine inspections according to the official repair shop service manual. Make sure the condition of air filters, radiators, spark plugs, battery until the water in perfect condition.
- Always use engine oil derived from synthetic raw materials that are specifically formulated with high quality additives, so it can provide better benefits than mineral lubricating oil. The oil was shown to increase resistance to heat engines, reducing the friction between the engine and stabilize the rate of oxidation.
For diesel-engined car, use oils that contain high-tech additives capable of controlling the oxidation and control of soot well, thus providing effective protection against piston deposit formation as a result of high temperature, wear and tear, corrosion and foaming. Thus, your machine will be maintained in a durable.
