driving habits that can reduce your vehicle's life

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Driving Habits That Can Limit Your Vehicle's Life

Your vehicle is most valuable possession on which you are so much depends on for all your day to day work.

But sometimes people follows some sort of driving habits that causes harm to the vehicle unknowingly.

Let's learn about these in details :-

Driving with low fuel level can easily heat up and increases the wear and tear of engine in less time.

Driving with a low fuel level :-

Experts suggests, keeping the gas tank at-least quarter full can prevents the fast wear

and tear in a bay.

Most people carry weight when they are moving one place to other or carrying heavy tools for office.

Hauling unwanted weight :-

But driving around with extra unwanted weight can decrease the gas mileage or low fuel economy and add extra stress on

suspension, brake and drivetrain components.

The sudden slamming of brake can cause deterioration of brake pads and rotors in a limited period of time.

Sudden Acceleration & Braking :-

In case of fuel economy, this type of issue can lower your gas mileage and can drain your gas tank in no time.

When you rests your hand on shift lever without changing gears for more time, it adds strain suspension.

Keeping your hand on shift lever :-

The unnecessary weight puts load on slider within your transmission that causes internal wear and tear on switch gears.

When you don't use parking brake, you puts all the strain parking pawl and that makes the wear and tear faster for this

part of transmission.

Improper use of parking brake :-

When you engage the clutch without any use of it, which results in damaging pressure plate,release bearing and release arm

simultaneously.

Engaging Clutch :-

The continuous riding on clutch also tend to open a possibility of sudden failure.

Some people uses continuous braking while going down on hilly road or even in general roads, that fastens the wear & tear to

braking system.

Dragging Brakes Downhill:-

This type of driving can cause brake failure. So it's advisable to drive in lower gear rather stepping on brakes.

In parking lots most people follows the common drive technique like to shift from reverse to drive while still slowly rolling

backwards.

Using shift & reverse without stopping completely :-

By following this habit, the driver puts strain on drivetrain, drive shaft & suspension.

In cold weather, if you rev the engine immediately before letting it thoroughly warm up can cause engine failure.

Revving the engine in cold weather :-

The sudden heat also damage the engine parts that have not been lubricated yet.

Whenever there is any problem happen in the vehicle, the dashboard warning light pops up and warn us about some

inconvenience.

Ignoring dashboard warning light :-

But most of people avoid these signs in first phase and that leads serious issue afterwards.

As per experts, when the vehicle user avoid the first sign of trouble, the problem leads to expensive damage of the vehicle.

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