Maintaining Your Vehicle
Maintaining your vehicle is essential to help ensure that it
is roadworthy, reliable, safe to drive and not a danger to other road users.
There are several weekly checks you should make on your
vehicle such as…
- Checking and topping up fluid levels such as engine coolant, engine oil and brake fluid.
- Checking your vehicles tyre tread depth is more than 1.6mm across the central ¾ of the tyre and around the entire circumference. Make sure there are no cuts or bulges in the tyre wall. Also check your tyres air pressure and replace the valves dust caps. Always remember to check your spare wheel if your vehicle has one.
- Check that all your lights are working correctly, (head lights, tail lights, full beam, indicators, brake lights and fog lights).
- Check your wiper blades are in good condition and the windscreen washer fluid bottle is full.
- Also, ensure that all your windows, mirrors, lights and number plates are clean.
The information on how to perform these tasks will be in the
vehicle owner's manual supplied with the vehicle. This manual will also cover
any other additional maintenance activities that are recommended for your
vehicle.
As well as these regular vehicle checks it’s also important
that you stick to the manufacturer’s routine service intervals. These will vary
with every manufacturer and vehicle. Details of the service requirements are
normally written in the owner's manual which was supplied with the vehicle.
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