Periodic car maintenance contents

Regular maintenance can detect damage early. Timely repair helps reduce vehicle repair costs and keep the vehicle running smoothly. The list of maintenance items increases over time in both number and difficulty. It is considered based on many bases.

The life span, durability of rubber parts, gaskets, cushions or hoses can crack even when the vehicle is not working. Engine oil and coolant can decompose and deteriorate. Metal parts oxidize and lose their mechanical properties and cannot perform their original function. But sometimes it can also be drawn from long-term repair experience. The maintenance process in the company or in a reputable garage is slightly different, but the main content is still focused on the problems.

Take your car to a reputable garage.

If you are a regular customer, sooner or later the garage owner will send a "hard" mechanic to meet you. Depending on the garage's facilities, you may be able to sit in a waiting room with air conditioning, coffee, wifi or cable TV, but you may also have to endure the noise and hot temperature with the mechanic.

To check the steering system, chassis, brakes and engine, the mechanic uses his feeling and experience to run a test around. Then jack up the car and check from specific details: shake the hub, wheels, check the tires, check the rubber balance system, tie rods, axle shafts, brake system.....

The next work will be brake maintenance, grease pumping, engine oil change (if needed), brake fluid change, air filter cleaning, oil filter change, radiator flushing, coolant change...etc.

Your car is running smoothly, which means there are no problems with the electrical system: lights, horn, turn signals. The garage can use a scanner to scan for errors and delete them if there are any. A stable car (the check light is not yellow) does not guarantee that the ECU has no errors, maybe the error is small enough to cause the check light to come on. Remove and clean the spark plug, the color of the spark plug will tell you how the car's engine is. The color of the spark plug is a brick color, which means the engine is good, the electricity is good, and the gas is good.

The air conditioning system needs to be maintained after each year of use, specifically the work is: Flushing the condenser and evaporator, adding oil to the compressor, refilling gas, maintaining the condenser and evaporator fans, changing the filter... With the temporary work mentioned above, the garage owner will let you know what needs to be replaced and what hasn't, what is ready...

You bring the car to the dealer

The car is lined up, you hand over the keys to the technician, get a ticket, go to the sales office to provide information, maybe you are invited by a "long-legged" girl to drink tea or coffee in a cold room and wait. Then the technician of the company will check the car and give you a long list of jobs that need to be done at the level of 50,000 km, along with the list of materials and labor costs. Together, it will also be a certain amount. Here it is necessary to clarify that the maintenance work will be similar to what I presented above. But the amount of money you have to spend will be different.

In short, regular car maintenance is a must. However, whether to do it at the garage or at the company depends on the owner's conditions and budget. But after all, the maintenance work at the company or the garage is almost the same. A reputable garage always has good workers and vice versa, in the maintenance workshop of the company there may also be new apprentices.