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Camping trips are great fun but only if your car is safe to drive you to your holiday destination. Some campsites are located in remote places, so your car needs to be able to cope with country lanes and steep hills at times. What road travel advice should you follow to make sure your camping trip goes without a hitch?
1. Top Up Your Oil
Many summer Camping trips are undone because of overheating. You need to check your oil when the engine is cool. It only takes a minute to do this job by pulling out your car’s dipstick.
Don’t wait until the dashboard warning light comes on to say you need oil and may already be overheating!
2. Keep Your Rear-View Clear
If you try to stuff too much into your car, then it can be hard to see out of the back. This makes motorway overtaking harder as well as making more trouble for you when reversing – possibly on a busy campsite!
Consequently, try to keep the rear view open and use a roof box or a trailer for any extra camping kit rather than piling it high in the back.
3. Check Your Tyres
Car tyres come under pressure on rural roads around places like Yorkshire. Then you will also often find they wear quicker on farmer’s tracks that you might need to go down to access your pitch. Don’t wait until your tyres begin to go bald to change them. Worn out tyres can be slow poison for your car.
Nothing good will come out of driving on worn out tyres. Yorkshire has many reliable tyre depots offering economical prices. For example if you want to book new tyres in Pontefract for your car – the experts at Ossett Tyre House can help – and you will enjoy your camping trip much more as a result.
4. Confirm Your Electrics
A quick check of your heating, air-conditioning and lights will mean dealing with any potential problems before your trip starts. Change any bulbs that have blown, remembering the often missed ones like reversing and fog lights.
5. Keep Kids Entertained
Finally, long road trips can become hell if you have bored kids in the back who argue and distract the driver. Give them enough to keep them entertained and take breaks if you need to.
DISCLOSURE | This post is sponsored by ossetttyrehouse.co.uk. You can read more about our sponsored post policy here.
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