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Friday, December 6, 2024

Ownership Tips Archive

Summer Car Cleaning Tips Part 2

Here are more summer car cleaning tips that will help keep your car shiny, clean, and sparkling new. Tip 1: Assess your paint finish before applying wax. Is this your first time to wax your car after a while? You might need to pre-clean or prep the paint before applying polish and wax. You can […]

Here are a Few Car Cleaning Tips for the Summer

Here are helpful car cleaning tips that will make your car stand out this summer! It does not matter if you have a new or old car. Using the right car cleaning products is essential, and a little elbow grease wouldn’t hurt, either. Tip 1: Wash, polish, and wax the finish at the start and […]

How and When to Change the Engine Oil In Your Car Part 2

How Do I Change the Oil? You can save hundreds of dollars if you decide to change the oil yourself. The procedure will vary on the type of engine that you have, but here are the basic tools and steps to help you get started: You will need: Fresh engine oil (approx. 4 quarts of […]

Radiator Care and Maintenance: How to Drain Car Engine Cooling System

As promised in part 2 of the series on how to maintain your car’s engine cooling system, here are the simple steps that will show you the proper way on how to drain your radiator and increase engine cooling system performance. Just a word of precaution: Read the owner’s manual of your car. Different cars […]

How to Maintain Your Car’s Engine Cooling System Part 2

Welcome to part 2 on how to maintain your car’s engine cooling system. You can always check out part 1 in order to know more about the components of your engine cooling system. There are a lot of car owners who take the engine cooling system for granted. What happens next is being left stranded […]

How to Maintain Your Car’s Engine Cooling System Part 1

The cooling system in your automobile is responsible for keeping the engine from overheating, due to excess heat. The engine cooling system is made up of 3 critical components: 1. The radiator 2. The engine cooling fans 3. The engine coolant (or coolant and water mix) Some engines are designed to be air-cooled, like the […]