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After the winter season passes, do you plan to have
a road trip with your personal vehicle?
To anticipate a long journey, the vehicle must be in fit
condition. Not only the driver should be ready physically and mentally, the
vehicle must be in top performance.
Before leaving home, your car must be checked and serviced
first.
As a car owner, you should also know how to set up a vehicle for a long trip, so don’t
just surrender completely to
people at the car service. What should
be checked in your car? Here I share a check list,
compiled from various sources, including avanzaxenia.net. If you want to check your
own car, the
following list can be used
as a reference.
1. Ignition
Check the platinum or coil condition,
as well as the spark plug and cord. If the electrode
looks somewhat black,
clean it with fine
sandpaper or replace with the new one.
2. Electricity
Check fuses, relays,
sockets, cables, amps,
alternator, and the
instruments on the dashboard. Check
out also the battery condition that
includes pole terminal, battery water, and the
whole battery cables. Clean the
battery from the
white crust with hot water. Once dry;
oil the pole battery
terminal.
3. Oil of the engine, axle, and transmission
Oil must be
replaced periodically. If you don’t remember when the last time you
changed the engine, axle and transmission oil; it would be safer if
you change it with new oil. Oil changing can be done alone or at the workshop.
4. Radiator, fan belt, air
conditioner
Make sure that the air conditioning
and radiator work
fine. If small cracks found, replace the fan
belt of alternator and air conditioner.
5. Brake
Check all related to the car brake. You should
check the drum and
disc brakes at
each wheel. Brake
mechanism, brake cable,
hand brake, and the
brake fluid also should be checked.
6. Tires
Check out the air pressure of each tire. If
there is no budget to buy a new tire, do the tire rotation
where the better tires placed in the front
position. Spooring and balancing treatment will make the steering
wheel not vibrate when the
car runs in high
speed and it will be controlled more conveniently.
7. Preparing additional required equipment.
-Do you have more budgets to increase
luggage space outside?
To carry the goods, you can install the framework roof rack and roof box.
-Cool box to
load cold drinks.
-Global Positioning System devices. GPS
can help you
in providing the information
of travel route, restaurants, ATMs, and gas stations.
8. Bring medicine and required tools.
-Medicinine box. You can fill it with some
common medications such as wind oil, wound cure, plaster, medicines for headache, flu, coughs, ulcers, as well
as vitamins.
-Tool box of vehicle that contains a set of standard
equipment such as wheel locks, a set of
jacks, pliers, and
a screwdriver.
-Extra spare parts and tool kits such as fan belts, 10A or 15 A fuses, insulator, bulb
lights (brake, reverse,
headlights), safety triangle, battery jumper cables, pen
test, hammer, mini compressor, gloves, flashlight,
and WD40 liquid penetration.
To anticipate traffic jam on common routes, prepare an alternate route and find
the right information. Avoid running out
of fuel by planning any location where
you need to refuel
back. Always apply safety driving during the road trip, and don’t forget to pray.
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