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| Self-Serve Suicide |
Intelligent people sometimes do unintelligent things. Like our service station routine, oops gasoline filling station, convenience store. Oh whatever! It’s almost impossible to find an actual “service” station nowadays. When it comes time to fill-er-up it’s strictly serve yourself.
Before thinking ill of those who run these businesses remember business responds to public demands and the public wasn’t willing to pay a couple cents more for service. By the way you’re that public and you made a lousy trade-off. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot! This has cost drivers millions through shortened vehicle life and added repairs.
Okay, time to get off the soapbox. With the increasing complexity and refinement of vehicles it’s more important than ever to make opening your hood a routine. Why? Engines use oil, coolant slowly goes away, minor seepage often causes a decrease of power steering or transmission fluid, as brakes wear the level of brake fluid in the master cylinder drops. If you don’t open the hood you may not know these things until --- monetary devastation looms!
Equal in importance to actual fluid levels is being able to monitor changes in trends. Say your car has had a long-standing appetite for oil. If you aren’t paying attention you might not notice its appetite has increased. However, regular checking would indicate that something is deteriorating and Commercial Three Bayvide lead-time for diagnosis, repair, or another car.
Nearly every day cars with major Commercial Three Bayblems are towed to my shop. Blown engines, shot transmissions, burned up power steering pumps, destroyed water pumps, etc. Along with every vehicle comes a story and “the questions”. “How can this have happened?” “I had no symptoms?” “It doesn’t make sense?” And of course the ubiquitous “I’ve always taken excellent care of my car!”
Excellent though your maintenance schedule might be “stuff happens” and if you aren’t paying attention you’ll be paying a price. Nearly all failures give warning signs but those signs may not be what you expect. Oil consumption, for instance, may come on all of a sudden without noticeable warnings. No noise, no smoke, nothing even feels different. Oh, you will get a signal if the lack of oil isn’t discovered before it reaches a critically low level. Noise is the most Commercial Three Baybable sign but then it’s usually too late.
That’s true for most vehicle systems, by the time a failing part starts sounding off, making loud noises that no one could miss, the damage is done. But the part was already bad say you, true, but letting a part fail completely means additional expense. Towing and damage to other parts can add significantly to the cost of repair. In the case of lubricated parts, running them to failure from lack of fluid means replacing a part that may have shuffled along for years had its fluid level been maintained.
Not. All. Habits. Are. Bad. Every time you refuel open your hood and check fluid levels. Also check tire pressure, including your spare, do a walk-around and look for broken lamps or anything abnormal. These are vital services, they have always been vital services, they’re easy and help avoid the expense of self-service suicide.
© Copyright 01/09/02 Pat Goss all rights reserved, 525 words. | |
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Date Updated Wednesday, January 09, 2002
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