The reliability of your vehicle is the most important thing that you need to think about. I will give some tips To Increase the reliability of the vehicle. Also, you can do it at your home in less than ten minutes.
Most vehicle owners don’t like to check engine bay. The reason for that is a lack of understanding about the vehicle, and afraid if something goes wrong. But checking your vehicle at least once a month can increase the reliability of the car. And it will prevent significant damage and engine repair.
So checking your vehicle is very important. Let’s make it step by step. The engine bay is that we must take care. Without the engine, your car is just pieces of metal.
The engine bay is the most crucial part of the vehicle. And there have a few things you must check at least once a month.
First of all, you must clean the dust around the cap or any other plug before open or remove it because there have liquid, coolant, batty acid oil tanks. So before opening those caps of tanks, you must clean around the cap.
Use a towel or clean cloth. Also, put it in water and remove the water from it and use a wet cloth to clean dust.
It will prevent dust mixing with vehicle engine parts. So this is important.
Check Coolant of Radiator
The radiator located at in front of all other parts. So You can remove the cap and check the coolant level. There has a hose which connects with radiator so radiate coolant level should fill until that horse level.
That horse connects with the coolant reservoir tank. This tank used to store extra coolant. So if radiator coolant level drops, this tank coolant will flow to the radiator. Also when radiator heat goes up coolant will flow to this reservoir tank.
So check the coolant reservoir and fill if that needed.
Check Break a Clutch Oil
There have tanks to store break and cluck oil. Some vehicle has two tanks, and some vehicle has one tank that can add both brake and clutch oil.
There have a maximum limit and minimum limit marks on the tank. So check brake and cluck oil are at above the minimum limit. If not maintain oil level.
The important thing is if you open the cap of those tanks. Clean the dust before opening it.
Check the Battery Acid Limit.
Most of those days, we get a battery which maintenance-free (sealed battery). But if you have battery which should check the acid level. You have to check that level. If that battery acid below that recommended level, Just add the acid. You can do it at home.
Washer Liquid
Washer liquid used to give windshield washer liquid. Check the liquid level and maintain it.
Engine Oil Level
This inspection is essential to check at least once a month.
There has a stick with a yellow color or orange color ring. You have to pull it up.
When you pull it up, you will see the level marks. So you have to maintain your engine oil between those two levels. Because if your vehicle has an engine oil leak, it will prevent damage to your engine also you will notice the issue.
So those are the things you must check on the engine bay.
I hope you get valuable information in this article. Do those for Increase reliability of the vehicle. Also, feel free to check my other blog post. If you get any questions, let me know in the comment section. Thank you for reading.