Car Care Essentials vacation for your family road trips and summer vacation this year.
(NAPSI)-The summer months are well known to every vehicle as a driver on the road for long weekend getaways or too hard.
To ensure that you are ready for the summer drive, with easy maintenance steps will ensure your stay is memorable for all the right reasons.
Get a tune up and check your AC:
A melody, before you could on a long trip to be led to improved fuel consumption by 4-12 percent. Auto manufacturers recommend a tune up every two years, or 30,000 miles, whichever occurs first. If your air conditioning is not new, check the technicians checked the refrigerant charge, compressor belt and have compressor clutch.
Maintain your cooling system:
Engine coolant is dirty, then the system flushed and refilled at regular intervals - usually every three years or 36,000 miles. Never check the radiator or coolant when the engine is hot. A product for the reduction of engine heat is Royal Purple's Purple Ice Coolant Additive. This high-performance radiator coolant additive promotes optimal synthetic coolant supply by helping to prevent formation of calcium deposits in the radiator and also lubricates the water pump seals. Learn more at www.coolerradiators.com.
Do not Forget The Spare:
When checking your tires for proper inflation and regular wear sure your spare tire is ready to use in case you need to be put into operation when on the go.
Change your windshield wipers:
Experts recommend changing your blades every six to 12 months. Remember to check not, and change your rear window wiper blade, too!
Road Emergency Kit:
Once these elements, it could easily return to the road:
• First aid kit, aspirin, bandages, gauze, eyewash, wet wipes, antibiotic ointment and burn cream Including
• Duct tape can be fixed temporarily, a broken windscreen wiper, hold glass together, pick up glass shards, serve as temporary cover and repair a broken gas hose
• Brightly cloth or "emergency" character that can bind you or somewhere on your car to help with color signal
• mobile phone. If you do not want to use a regular phone, there are special units and 911 pre-paid mobile phones
• Tools such as wrenches, screwdrivers, pliers and wrench
• booster cable directly to a dead or defective battery
• Extra fuses
• Blankets
• emergency light or flashlight
• mineral water.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
More To Safe Braking Than Just Your Brakes
What's Stopping You?
There's More To Safe Braking Than Just Your Brakes
(NAPSI)-When it comes to the performance of your vehicle's brakes, the margin of "safety" can often be measured in inches--the few inches you've stopped short of another car or that dog or squirrel darting across the road.
What many vehicle owners don't realize, however, is that braking performance relies on much more than just the brake system. Shock absorbers, struts, tires and chassis components also play big roles in helping you avoid accidents.
Safe braking depends on consistent, firm contact between your tires and the road. Worn shocks or struts, in particular, can prevent this secure contact by allowing your vehicle's wheels to "hop" after hitting a pothole, bump or other hazard.
"When the tires aren't in firm contact with the road, your brakes can't do their job," said car care expert Mark Christiaanse, director of product management for Tenneco Inc.'s Monroe® brand of ride control components. "That's why every brake job should also include a careful inspection of shocks and struts as well as steering linkage parts like ball joints and tie-rod ends."
The primary job of a shock absorber or strut is to provide resistance to the wheel's natural tendency to bounce away from road impacts. These components also help limit the transfer of vehicle weight from the rear to the front wheels in hard-braking situations. This helps balance the weight over all four wheels for shorter stopping distance and improved stability. Tenneco estimates that shocks and struts provide an average of 21 million of these stabilizing actions every 12,000 miles.
"Shocks and struts are obviously wear-intensive parts and should be inspected and replaced as part of normal vehicle maintenance," Christiaanse said. The independent Motorist Assurance Program now recommends replacing worn shocks and struts every 50,000 miles.
There's More To Safe Braking Than Just Your Brakes
(NAPSI)-When it comes to the performance of your vehicle's brakes, the margin of "safety" can often be measured in inches--the few inches you've stopped short of another car or that dog or squirrel darting across the road.
What many vehicle owners don't realize, however, is that braking performance relies on much more than just the brake system. Shock absorbers, struts, tires and chassis components also play big roles in helping you avoid accidents.
Safe braking depends on consistent, firm contact between your tires and the road. Worn shocks or struts, in particular, can prevent this secure contact by allowing your vehicle's wheels to "hop" after hitting a pothole, bump or other hazard.
"When the tires aren't in firm contact with the road, your brakes can't do their job," said car care expert Mark Christiaanse, director of product management for Tenneco Inc.'s Monroe® brand of ride control components. "That's why every brake job should also include a careful inspection of shocks and struts as well as steering linkage parts like ball joints and tie-rod ends."
The primary job of a shock absorber or strut is to provide resistance to the wheel's natural tendency to bounce away from road impacts. These components also help limit the transfer of vehicle weight from the rear to the front wheels in hard-braking situations. This helps balance the weight over all four wheels for shorter stopping distance and improved stability. Tenneco estimates that shocks and struts provide an average of 21 million of these stabilizing actions every 12,000 miles.
"Shocks and struts are obviously wear-intensive parts and should be inspected and replaced as part of normal vehicle maintenance," Christiaanse said. The independent Motorist Assurance Program now recommends replacing worn shocks and struts every 50,000 miles.
Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems: Are You "Under Pressure"?
TPMS tire pressure monitoring systems. Are you "Under Pressure"? Do not ignore this Dashboard Alert.
(NewsUSA) - Beginning with the 2008 model year are tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) now standard on all new cars in the United States, but many drivers do not know about it. Often a driver first TPMS if the symbol is introduced on their dashboard, which indicates that the air pressure is small in one or more tires - potentially dangerously low.
On average underinflated tires are responsible for nearly 700 cars crash every day. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that if all passenger vehicles with TPMS equipped, the annual number of motor vehicle crash deaths will decrease from about 120, and the annual number of injuries from car accidents will be reduced by about 8,500.
To raise awareness of TPMS and the importance of proper tire pressure, Schrader, the pioneer and leading manufacturer of tire pressure monitoring systems, TPMSMadeSimple.com has created. This comprehensive site offers the driver the important facts about TPMS, including how it improves vehicle safety and why it is now mandatory for all U.S. vehicles. In addition to safety information, the driver can also find out how much money they save on properly inflated tires and proper inflation, such as helping the environment.
If your vehicle is equipped with TPMS, the light is on, if one or more of your tires are 25 percent to reach below the recommended inflation pressure. If this happens, take care and:
* Find a safe place to check for removing your tire pressure. Keep a tire pressure gauge with your number of emergency items in your vehicle.
* When the light goes on while driving on the highway to pack speed, the steering wheel with both hands immediately if you experience a blow-out (rapid deflation) scenario. Slow, slow to a safe speed and find a safe place for pulling off to check your tire pressure.
* Once considered whether the tires all appear normal, proceed with caution to your tire pressure checked and filled to the proper tire pressure. This can be done at a service station or tire service center.
* If necessary, have the problem, tires or tires and TPMS system will be maintained during your next tire service center.
The TPMS light should go out within a few minutes drive to the repair or re-inflated tires.
(NewsUSA) - Beginning with the 2008 model year are tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) now standard on all new cars in the United States, but many drivers do not know about it. Often a driver first TPMS if the symbol is introduced on their dashboard, which indicates that the air pressure is small in one or more tires - potentially dangerously low.
On average underinflated tires are responsible for nearly 700 cars crash every day. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that if all passenger vehicles with TPMS equipped, the annual number of motor vehicle crash deaths will decrease from about 120, and the annual number of injuries from car accidents will be reduced by about 8,500.
To raise awareness of TPMS and the importance of proper tire pressure, Schrader, the pioneer and leading manufacturer of tire pressure monitoring systems, TPMSMadeSimple.com has created. This comprehensive site offers the driver the important facts about TPMS, including how it improves vehicle safety and why it is now mandatory for all U.S. vehicles. In addition to safety information, the driver can also find out how much money they save on properly inflated tires and proper inflation, such as helping the environment.
If your vehicle is equipped with TPMS, the light is on, if one or more of your tires are 25 percent to reach below the recommended inflation pressure. If this happens, take care and:
* Find a safe place to check for removing your tire pressure. Keep a tire pressure gauge with your number of emergency items in your vehicle.
* When the light goes on while driving on the highway to pack speed, the steering wheel with both hands immediately if you experience a blow-out (rapid deflation) scenario. Slow, slow to a safe speed and find a safe place for pulling off to check your tire pressure.
* Once considered whether the tires all appear normal, proceed with caution to your tire pressure checked and filled to the proper tire pressure. This can be done at a service station or tire service center.
* If necessary, have the problem, tires or tires and TPMS system will be maintained during your next tire service center.
The TPMS light should go out within a few minutes drive to the repair or re-inflated tires.
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