Being considerate to your car shouldn't stop after the initial 1,000 km. Drive cautiously always and your car will reward you with longer intervals without breakdowns.
- Don’t accelerate your car engine while starting. This is an easy way to add more years to your engine, especially during winters.
- Drive slowly after you have started. Most engine and transmission breakdown occurs in the first 15 minutes of operation.
- Warming up a car engine by letting it idle in the parked zone is not advised. As the engine does not run at maximum temperature, resulting in incomplete combustion, depositing soot on the cylinder walls, contamination, and eventually causing component damage.
- Less strain on the car engine and transmission, at a red light by shifting gear into neutral. Else, the engine still works to move the car, even when it is stationary.
- Especially when it is very hot or cold outside, avoid driving your car at high speed and quick accelerations. Such driving will result in more frequent breakdowns.
- Extend the vehicle tyre life with careful driving. Observe posted speed limits. Avoid fast starts, stops, and turns. Avoid potholes and objects on the road. Don’t run over parking bumpers or hit the tyre against the parking bumpers when parking. And, of course, don’t burn rubber.
- Extend the vehicle tyre life with careful driving. Note the speed limits on the roads and avoid quick starts, stops and turns. Avoid objects and potholes on the road. While parking, do not drive on parking bumpers or bump the tyre against the parking bumpers.
- The power steering pump could be damaged, if you hold the steering wheel to extreme right or left for more than a few seconds.
- Combine all your short trips. Most of the wear and tear, as well as the pollution your car generates, occurs in the first few minutes of initial driving. Running multiple journeys at once, if possible during low traffic hours, will keep your engine happy for a long time.
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