Showing posts with label car maintenance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label car maintenance. Show all posts

Tips on choosing car battery

Once we know the type and type-type batteries before buying batteries then we have good attention to the following matters:

     CHOOSE THE APPROPRIATE SIZE
     In the market provided some measure of the body and the battery terminals. Do not select a battery with a larger body of the holder or the battery terminals that do not comply with the cord.

     COMPATIBLE PERFORMANCE NEEDS
     We recommend that you select a battery with the same Ampere as the standard car. The specifications listed in the manual of the vehicle. But if the car is fitted with many accessories of electronic devices, would require a larger battery with amperage.

     AGE WEAR LONG
     Generally on the packaging or indicated battery life of the body before it must be replaced. Battery lifespan on the market is currently around 3-5 years.

     FIND OUT HOW LONG CAN LAST BATTERY IN WITHOUT CHARGED
     Almost all are equipped reserve battery capacity that indicates how long the battery can function as a car alternator failed to work.

     SELECT THE BATTERY THAT STILL FRESH
     Look for batteries that do not display in the store for more than 6 months. To make sure, you can see the delivery time on the packaging. Usually listed in the months and years. But there is also the format of the code. Such as A5, A
     for January and 5 represent 2005.

     HOW OLD warranty
     Should choose a battery with a long warranty period. Usually listed in a matter of months for a period of battery use with no problems. It's worth your attention because if the battery fails to work within a certain time period, you can still get a replacement.


     COMPLETENESS which facilitates
     Completeness can be either a handle mounted on the body battery. Making it easier to lift. In addition, the indicator function of the battery at the top also makes checking easier.

What to do If the car parked long period in the garage

Perhaps you are one of the people who are very busy, the task force you to travel frequently out of town or the country in the long term. If you have a private car, it should be noted that when she returned later, the vehicle is not in the condition of abandoned or pathetic. The first step you should do is wash the car before it was abandoned. 
Then, follow these tips:1. The position of the handbrake releasedIf left in a state of emergency brake come in, especially in a long time, will happen with the adhesiveness between the oil disc brakes, especially for vehicles that have a drum on the rear wheel. One additional thing, it helps you let your car keys hanging on the wheel of your vehicle. If your house has a maid, it would be useful to heat the vehicle every day. But do not leave your car keys if you did not have a garage or out in the open.2. Chock wipers with foam / woodWhen kept in contact with the windshield, wiper rubber will slowly harden and no longer pliable. Consequently rubber (commonly called a dead rubber) will feel rough when later used to wash your windshield.3. Keep all four tires in a raised condition does not stick to the floorThe trick, simply by using a jack and jack stand. The goal is to ensure that the car's suspension is awake and not burdened by the weight of the vehicle. A car that was 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 was left more than two weeksWhy? The reason is that car batteries are very sensitive. If the vehicle is not turned on at all in two weeks or more (especially when in the house that you leave no helpers), it will affect the battery, which can be more easily damaged than the vehicles used daily.5. When the parking lot side, prop your four tires with a beamThis is true for those who have a garage with a sloping surface. In the first tips that are not mentioned either enter the position of the hand brake when the vehicle left long enough, but how if the surface is tilted? It's easy, just chock all four tires with blocks or other hard objects so that the car has not changed position.6. Put the car deodorizers, and close the car with the coverDeodorizers serves to neutralize the musty smell 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, something which is certainly not desired by any car owner. To avoid this, simply buy a car cover is usually sold in car accessory shops.

Dangerous stuff put in the car

WHEN a car accident might have survived, but the passengers could be injured from the impact of luggage. Lately the car safety technology? Increasingly sophisticated. Just look, computer systems which provide assistance to the driver to prevent accidents.  
For example, traction control, ABS, EBD to various types of airbags. Most actual, airbag sausage model that prevents collisions between passenger's head.  
But all that expensive technology is not even useful, if the injury to the passengers turned out to diakibatan collision goodsluggage in the cabin.

Based on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administrafion (NHTSA), institutions that care about road accidents in the U.S., many injuries are caused by a collision passenger luggage. Though the condition of the car is not anything after the collision. It happened because the impact of luggage placed in the cabin."Carry-on baggage with the baggage car without a kind of jeep or because a full baggage, goods should be neatly tied up with nets. 

For even wear seat-belt, bump also if ketiban cardboard such as mineral water," said Harry Irrawaddy, off-roader from? Indonesian Off-Road Federation (IOF). 
While your car is not a jeep or SUV, but preventive measures can be applied to minimize injury. For everywhere, no crash planned or known in advance.

1.
Luggage that is not bound
    
You had to put the word "twist" due to half-wet and dry roads and cars in front of you brake suddenly. Although the car survived, but you risk the "kiss" one of the luggage carried.

2.
Steering wheel lock
    
Because of its dense and hard, lock the steering wheel is very dangerous. Let alone the head, hit the ankle sprain could make

3.
Bottles of mineral
    
The most danger galonan size. 1500 ml size is also quite make the bumps. The safest size of 500 ml to accompany the trip and always use a cup holder to support it.

4.
Jack
    
It often happens, after using indirect jack put back in place or bracket. Just to
    
placed under or between the seats, it looks normal but the result is definitely more risky than ketiban steering wheel lock.

5.
Toolbox
    
Especially those made of tin. In addition to severe, sharp corners can be very hurt

6.
Bowling ball
    
Along the rampant bowling alley, The more active bowler again. Put in a safe place. Of course, you do not want ketiban bowling ball weighs heavy.

7.
Ceramics
    
Especially large. Instead, choose a transport service, if pretty far distance travels.

8.
Fire extinguisher
    
Never mind the large version? Special small car can be dangerous. Had the mental and the tip contact with eyes, nuisance, too. Or the many brands that use gas as a foam sprinklers which can explode when exposed to excess heat.

9.
Gaseous tube
    
As the liquid car care range of silicon spray, carburetor cleaner or minyakwangi. When excess heat, the tube could explode.

10.
Matches
    
This problem most klasik.Apalagi widely circulated counterfeit lighters are thinner casing. It did not burn when there is no spark, but it prevents a lot better than cope.

the most common about car maintenance & technical constraints

Here's all About car maintenance and technical constraints most commonly occurs on the motorist. It is better understood so that we avoid the constraints:
1. How to take care of  machine daily?Check the oil stick / controller engine oil, if oil is under the bottom line. Also check the radiator water and bottled water supplies radiator. Check brake fluid & choke oil when dirty air filter can be sprayed with the wind compressor.


2. How many kilometers engine oil & oil filter replaced?Ordinary engine oil changed between 4000 km - 5000 km but since the climate in Tropical and many streets are jammed, many also advise consumers to replace the engine oil at 3500 miles. If the oil filter oil change should be 2x 1x oil filter change.
 

3. Is it true that every time we service / tune up the car to replace the spark plugs & fuel filters ?Not really, because the spark plugs use durable enough so it does not need to always be replaced, usually cleaned and fix the sprawl only. So is the fuel filter can be cleaned with carburator cleaner.
 

4. Can anything causes the temperature inside the engine to be increased / Overheat?Can of radiator / radiator circulation is not good / incompressible. Radiator fan motor fan a weak / disfunction. When existence of a sensor that is not good / termostart. When existence of a leaky hose or can be of a curved cylinder head / packing head that has been damaged.

5. What causes sudden off car ignition?

Who have reached the CDI / thirsty or platinum coils are depleted or are getting weak.

6. What causes white smoke out continuously from the exhaust tip?Can an already weak piston rings. The existence of the bearing block beret on the wall. Already a rift between the Bering riston / piston ring so the engine to be lowered / engine overhaul.


7. How do I keep the machine always in normal fuel usage / economical?The trick is to maintain the cleanliness and routine maintenance such as keeping the crust in the channel in the take and the combustion chamber by way of understanding conditioner tune up / clean carbon. Keeping the air filter to keep it clean and not clogged. Keeping the gas tank and fuel filter clean so no dirt in the gas tank to go up to the machine.


8. What causes the brake pedal suddenly disappear and the brakes do not grip?One possibility is that the brake master was out,  so there is no pressure (liquid pressure) normal to the respective brake.


9.
What causes the sound of the engine block and if the gas normal voice is louder?If he gassed the louder the sound of metal salon is definitely worn.
  

10. Can anything causes the clutch to slip?The existence of oil leakage from the cell crutch so that the clutch plate to be wet (oil). Causes include frequency while holding the clutch stuck, and the clutch plate is worn / thin.