Advice From a Used Car Dealer: Preventative Maintenance We Can Perform

Preventative maintenance is important for any car, especially for an older vehicle. Maintenance involves regular checkups on various components to ensure they’re in good working condition. This helps to prevent unnecessary damage and will protect your car for longer. As a used car dealer, we’d like to tell you about some types of maintenance we can perform and how they can protect your car.

Battery Maintenance

The battery is one of your car’s most important components, as it provides the power that’s used to start your engine. The battery stores DC in the form of chemical energy, and it does this via a complex series of chemical reactions. Over time, these reactions cause the chemicals to break down, and your battery will weaken and eventually fail.

On average, a battery’s useful life is from 3 to 5 years, and then it will need replacement. A failing battery isn’t immediately obvious, but as it becomes weaker, you’ll experience dim lights, starting difficulties, and other problems. These issues can be prevented by regular battery checks. We connect your car’s battery to our battery tester and we can rapidly determine if it’s healthy. If your battery is failing, we can install a new one for you.

Transmission Maintenance

The transmission works with your engine to enable your car to move. It focuses the power generated by your engine and then transfers this focused energy to your car’s wheels. After your engine, the transmission is the second most important part of your car. It’s also one of the most difficult and potentially expensive components to repair if it fails.

Transmission maintenance involves testing and replacing the transmission fluid regularly. This fluid provides numerous benefits including providing hydraulic power, reducing friction damage, and decreasing the transmission temperature.

Tire Maintenance

Your tires are the only part of your car in contact with the surface, and this contact will cause wear and damage. Your tire health can be affected by poor driving conditions, climatic factors, and objects on the road. In addition, rubber gradually wears down naturally and becomes less flexible. The lack of flexibility, combined with the heat generated as you drive, can cause cracks in the tires.

Tires will also suffer due to their position on your car. We can reduce this type of wear by rotating your tires and shifting them from positions of greater wear to positions of lesser wear. This process helps your tires to all wear down at a similar rate.

These are only a few of the maintenance tasks we can perform. If you’d like to know more about protecting your car, call us today at Duncan Suzuki.

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