Car Maintainence Before Long Trips

[AB Editor]

Car Maintenance Before Long Trips

This poll is closed.

Do you perform any car maintenance checks before making a long journey (like going on holiday)?

A. Yes, I do lots of check to minimise the risk of breaking down.

75.68% (168 votes)

B. No, I don't.

24.32% (54 votes)

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[TWR]

You should learn the basics Vod! tyre pressures etc, you will soon learn the cost with running on a flat tyre.

[lady-janine]

i can do all the usual checks but have never been able to check tyre pressures. always have to get that done for me. everything else i go over.

[Old_Geezer]

My car gets the fluid levels checked regularly anyway. I even check the tyre pressures on occassion, although less so since filling stations stopped offering it as a free incentive. Apart from that, today's cars seem to not break down so regularly, or maybe it's that I buyer newer in my old age. It has plenty of warning lamps anyway. So no, no specific checks before starting off.

[ummmm]

I do know how to check the water, oil, tyres, wipers. I just don't have to :-)

[SpikeyBush]

I do the weekly checks, oil, water, tyres anyway but as my annual mileage is in the region of 50 thousand, when I go on a foreign motoring holiday my mileage doesn't exceed the norm by much. So unless a service will fall due when I'm away, it won't be done before I go.

Car was serviced and tested at the end of April, I'll be driving onto the ferry a week tonight.

[benny3008]

I don't which I have found in hindsight to be BAD since I came back from holiday yesterday after a 2 1/2 hour journey in my car which seemed to be getting very hot and tapping alot (which it has been doing for a while) only to find today, the oil is on the minimum! Ooops! only myself to blame.

[Sallyannem49]

I check the oil, water and tyres.
I also have a general look under the bonnet to check everythink looks in order.

Sally Anne

[Vicasso]

A

[nellypope]

No, its why I have a husband! Women should concentrate on kittens and embroidery.