Remember These 7 Truck Maintenance Tips to Spend Less on Your Truck

Cardholders are in contact with the vehicle every day, how do we maintain the vehicle?Maybe each card users have their own “maintenance tips”, maybe the old driver taught, maybe a friend told, or their own experience. But if the vehicle maintenance is not good, light will cause damage to the major systems, heavy will greatly reduce the service life of the vehicle.

Here are seven reasonable suggestions for you:

1, regular kilometer maintenance
Many cardholders on the vehicle how to maintain their own ambiguity, follow the feeling, some even do not remember the last engine maintenance is how many kilometers. There are also card users reflect the engine does not run, go to the service station to check, the computer query does not have any fault code, is to replace the diesel filter and air filter is completed, the problem is solved.

Diesel fuel filter is not changed for a long time, it will cause the vehicle to ignite difficult or even not ignition
If you don't know how to do regular maintenance, you can do a good job of regular mileage maintenance program according to the manufacturer's manual recommendations and the usual experience of using the car.

2, according to the oil scale line reasonable add oil.

Traces of oil between the upper and lower scales are normal.
When there is insufficient oil in the engine oil sump, bearings and journals and other friction will be poorly lubricated due to the small amount of oil, increasing the degree of wear and tear, and even triggering burnt tile shaft accident. However, if the oil is too much, the engine in the work of the crankshaft handle, connecting rod big end will produce violent stirring, not only increase the engine internal power loss, but also will make the oil splashed to the cylinder wall increased, resulting in burned discharge oil failure. Therefore, the engine oil in the engine oil pan should be controlled in the oil ruler between the upper and lower scales for good.

3, maintenance of air filter, cleaning intake pipeline.
Intake pipe is one of the engine air intake system, card users often traveling in dusty road conditions area, it is easy to make the internal accumulation of impurities too much, resulting in the intake pipe is not smooth, exacerbating engine wear and aging.

The air filter should be maintained regularly, otherwise it will not only affect the power fuel consumption, but also aggravate the four sets of early wear and tear, affecting the service life of the engine.
The intake pipeline needs to be cleaned regularly, to avoid taking more dusty road surface.

4, high engine temperature, such as natural cooling before adding coolant.
Tank water shortage, engine overload operation, as well as poor heat dissipation, will cause the truck tank boiler, then if you immediately add cold water, will lead to the cylinder head and cylinder block cracking.

Wait for the engine to cool before adding coolant
Once the water tank is found to be boiling, emergency measures should be taken to stop the operation and let the coolant cool down by itself.

5, keep the engine water temperature within a reasonable temperature range.
When the weather is hot, some drivers in order to prevent the engine temperature is too high, a request for cooling water temperature as low as possible; some drivers in order to achieve the purpose of cooling, simply remove the thermostat, these practices are not right.

Driving, the water temperature pointer in the green zone, the car is in good condition!
The car engine is afraid of both heat and cold, if the cooling water temperature is too low, it will make the fuel combustion deterioration, fuel consumption increase, aggravate the wear and tear, oil viscosity increase, the engine power reduction. Tests show that the cooling water temperature of 40-50 degrees Celsius when the car is traveling, the engine wear increased by 60% -80%, power reduced by 25%, fuel consumption increased by 8% -10%. Therefore, the engine cooling water temperature is not the lower the better, generally should be controlled between 80-90 degrees Celsius.

6, brake before remembering to step on the brakes first after the car slowed down and then step on the clutch, and then stop.
Some people are afraid of braking the engine off, develop the habit of braking before the clutch; there are also thought to cut off the power after the brake will be more effective, this is wrong. In any case, driving with the clutch pressed will increase the inertia of the car and will make the braking distance longer.

Proper driving habits can extend the life of your clutch
The correct practice is that you should apply the brakes first and then depress the clutch when the car is coming to a stop.

7, tire pressure to maintain the standard pressure, to prevent too high or too low.
Some car owners like to inflate the tire pressure higher, thinking that this saves fuel. But the tire pressure is too high, will make the tire ground reduction, wear and tear, shorten the tire life, but also reduce the braking effect of the brake, the safety of driving caused by a greater harm; air pressure is too low, will produce cracks, and affect the speed of the car, increase fuel consumption.

Low air pressure will cause both sides of the tire to eat the tire
We should be in accordance with the standard air pressure indicated on the tire inflation, inflation is generally in the standard air pressure ± 5% more appropriate.
The above seven maintenance tips, such as adding a layer of golden bell on the outside of the truck, can protect your car. Vehicle maintenance to do a good job, not only can reduce maintenance costs, but also to extend the service life of the vehicle, naturally, our car full life cycle costs will come down.