Nine Tips To Keep Your Vehicles In Top Shape In order to avoid expensive bills from the mechanic, you need to keep your ride in a top shape.
Some useful tips to achieve this including handling of different driving scenarios are offered by men shealth.com.
#Rainproof Your Windshield
Manufacturers recommend replacing your blades every three months.
Keep a spare set in your trunk.
A product such as Rain Clear can also help minimize the work of your wipers; spray it onto the glass every three few weeks.
In some light rains, it makes the wipers almost unnecessary.
#Skip the DIY Car Wash
Washing a car at home uses five (5) to 20 times more water than a professional car wash.
You also are not doing your car any favours:
a recent study at the University of Texas proved that a single DIY (Do-It-Yourself) wash can leave scratches as deep as a tenth of the paint’s total thickness.
#Eliminate Distractions
As driving instructors stress, your hands tend to follow where your eyes are looking.
Adjusting the radio dial takes 5.5 seconds-and that’s 5.5 seconds when the eyes may not be on the road and both hands may not be on the Wheel.
Dialing a telephone triples your risk of a crash.
Reaching for a moving object increases it nine times. Worst of all is texting, which makes you 23 times more likely to crash.
“Avoid the temptation to multi-task behind the wheel altogether and pt your cell phone in the glove compartment every time you get in the car,” says the US Secretary of Transportation Ray Lahood.
#Lower Your Seat
Drivers who sit higher feel as if they’re driving slower.
Thus, SUV drivers, who are already piloting the vehicles most prone to roll, drive faster because they feel like they’re creeping along.
So lower your seat to get the sensation of more sped.
#Turn Your Light On
A Canadian study from 1994 found that people who drive with their headlights on during daylight hours have an 11 per cent decreased risk of being in an accident with another automobile, especially when the weather is hazy and visibility is poor.
#Assume the position
Smaller blind spots mean you’ll crane your neck less. Try this Mirror adjustment method from Tom and Ray Magliozzi, hosts of the NPR’s Car Talk: Set your rearview mirror as you normally would, then tilt it upward so you sit up straight.
Lean you head against the driver’s window; then, set your left mirror so you can see the back corner of your car, lean right to do the right mirror.
#Save Your Clutch
Don’t ride your clutch in anticipation of shifts.
You’ll accelerate quicker and your clutch will last longer if you use it like expensive cologne sparingly.
#Check your hands
Your seat is positioned properly when you can hang your wrists over the top of the steering wheel.
And remember not to grip the wheel as you would a tennis racket, with your thumbs wrapped around so that they connect it back with your fingers.
Instead leave your thumbs on top of the wheel. Otherwise, in a collision, the wheel can whip back around and snap your thumbs.
#Look Left, then Right
Forty per cent of car crashes occur at intersections, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, as do 22 per cent of all fatal crashes.
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