Cutting the Cost Of Maintenance On Your Vehicle

Bruno
Thu, 06/17/2010 - 04:49

If you have a car then you will surely know how costly it is to keep the car properly maintained on the road. A lot of drivers don’t realize that owning a car can be expensive until they finally start driving in normal conditions. Because maintaining a car can be a large piece of amount it costs to drive a vehicle every year. The following tips can be helpful and can save money over the life of your car.

Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

It will never good to be wise on penny and foolish on pound. The corners can be cut of course and a little money can be saved here and there but there is a possibility that it can come back to scare. This is the reason it is always better to get guidance from the owner’s manual about specific maintenance that should be done after every time interval and mileage.

Oil Changes, Transmission Fluid Changes

Oil change is obviously necessary. Although the owner’s manual has to be followed because oil does not have to be necessarily changed after every 3000 miles of 3 months.  Most of the news cars nowadays require oil change about every 500 miles or 5 months. Because of transmission fluid changes, the transmission fluid does not have to be really changed after every 25K, most of the vehicles of today usually have a schedule of at least 50K and some have a greater at 100K when the first fluid transmission change is needed.

Premium Fuel

Premium is the big cost saver, As the gas stations push premium fuel for a vehicle, a matter of fact is that the regular grade in normally good enough for the majority of vehicles. If you really want to save a good amount of money over the lifetime for your vehicle, then you would really have to follow these useful tips.

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