Car maintenance ensures you once again that you are driving safely. It tells your vehicle’s conditions and alerts you if you need any inspection or replacement to make. Having a car gives more benefits but its maintenance needs your patience, consistency, involvement, and basic knowledge of how to do a car inspection. As a car owner, it will be helpful to know simple maintenance tasks.

Have you ever seen someone driving a car with the radio turned off? It is not always because they hate the songs, sometimes they turned off to check if there is humming from a brake pad or somewhere else in the car. An abnormal or unidentified sound from the car shows it lacks maintenance. A good car owner knows how the car sounds when it is running with no fault.

Most times your car alerts you before you ended spending a lot of repair shops. If you have heard your car, you are saved. Otherwise, it will take your money and time. So just listen to your car more often.

Here we have shared a few maintenance tips and ideas that we learned from our car services.

Log Maintenance

Recording the services, changes, repairs, replacements, and any other jobs being done on your car is helpful for the future. It helps you keep the schedule and never miss any routine maintenance, checkups, and testing.

OBD Reader

It is never too late for learning. The research before you start any task for your car is not going to hurt you. Have an OBD reader on the desk, so you can look up to the warning signals immediately or lights and think about your next step.

Basic Toolkit

We always recommend our customers keep a toolkit in the car. It is always better prepared than being sorry. Keep a basic toolkit with basic tools like screwdrivers, sockets or common wrenches, pliers, an emergency light, an air pump, and so on. A flashlight and an air pump can save you from $100 of towing. Some of the other common tools include duct tape, bungee cords, zip ties, etc.

Set Reminders for Tires, Filters, Fluids

We people of 20’s century are gifted with a handy tool that helps you connect, make money and avoid issues, the mobile phone. A handy gadget that you can use for scheduling routine replacement services like oil changes, brake fluid changes, tire pressure checkups, air filter checkups, and so on.

You can set reminders to repeat these tasks. It allows you to set reminders for any year and any time. You can also set pre-alarms that start ringing a few back before the scheduled date so you can be sure.

Keep Jack Stands

A jack stand is a metal tool that you usually need for changing tires. This safety mechanism helps lift cars into the air. It is made of two pieces and provides adjustable height. It is placed under a strong point so the frame will keep the vehicle at the moment the hydraulic jack fails. When you work in the car, it might a risky condition between life and death. So buy the best set from the best brands.