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Is Your Car Ready in Winter

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

When you get up in the morning from your warm bed and found your car won’t start, you can guess you have a dead car battery. If you have a weak battery the winter will certainly finish it off. You have to prepare your car for winter weather.

Car battery manufacturers use the term maintenance free very loosely. The steps needed to maintain a good battery are simple and you can do it yourself. You can remove the battery cables starting with the negative and clean the cable ends and battery terminals with a wire brush. You can see video at link below to see how battery terminal can be cleaned easily.
Video: How to take care of your car

Check your car tires frequently during cold weather, add enough air to keep them at recommended inflation level.

Change the oiland use manufacturer’s recommended grade of oil.

Keep your car fueled and in good working order. Be sure to check the following:

1. Antifreeze/Coolant
2. Windshield wiper fluid
3. Heater
4. Brakes
5. Ignition
6. Emergency flashers
7. Exhaust
8. Tires (air pressure and wear)
9. Fuel
10. Oil
11. Brake fluid
12. Defroster
13. Battery
14. Radiator

You can check up your car at nearest car service station to prepare your car for winter so that your car remain safe on road.

For any car problem, you can send questions to our experts at: http://mericar.com/ask_the_expert.php

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http://www.winter-car-care.com/batteries-winter.html

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Majority of Car Mechanics Missed at least one potentially dangerous fault (Survey)

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

According to recent survey with 62 garages by UK company “which?” 87 per cent of the garages missed or ignored at least one potentially dangerous fault while 39% charged for a product that wasn’t supplied. As part of its survey, investigators made four deliberate, easily-fixed faults a competent mechanic should spot such as a deflated spare tyre, low brake fluid or a blown bulb. The survey was conducted with garages affiliated to the Bosch Car Service scheme, Motor Codes scheme Good Garage Scheme in UK.

Everybody commented on survey that every garage at some point in a year must be thoroughly tested for quality of work, relevance of work and pricing, but some do not believe all those deliberate faults are serious. The only fault that actually affects the drivability is the low tyre pressure.

All affiliated car workshops carry out audits on all members annually and they must have regular audits.

Mechanics (D Bowall) who worked with some good workshops in UK commented on the report and listed possible reasons for problem with garages in common.

1/ many mechanics don’t have the education or the investment put into training to work on modern cars. The trade has always been a place to put school leavers who under achieved this was ok 20 years ago but not now.

2/ the person ripping you off is most likely to be the nice man who takes your keys than the oily mechanic you’d rather avoid. I’ve met more honest mechanics than I have receptionists.

3/ bonus schemes, they cause staff to rush as does pressure from above, It also stops co-operation between staff to fix faults.

4/ Explain a complex fault to most owners and they’ll stare at you like a dog that’s just been shown a card trick.

Above reasons applicable to all car workshops all over the world as these are common problem everywhere.

In India, servicing industry is un organized and many road side workshops. Corporate like Bosch Car Service, Mahindra First Choice Services are opening franchised based car workshops in India. With advancement of car technologies, there is a need to develop education system or manufacture supported program to train mechanics.

Source: news.sky.com
DailyMail.co.uk

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