As a driver, for this issue, I should have the most say, at present I am driving the 2011 brand of Nissan Liwei, it has been 11 years now, the mileage is more than 150,000 kilometers, although it is already an "aging car", but I always adhere to these 3 principles, so although it is an old car, the feeling of driving up and the new car is completely no different!
And the auto mechanic cousin who has been in the industry for 20 years has also said to me that he has repaired the new car he just bought, and he has also repaired the old car that is about to be scrapped, they all have one thing in common, all the cars that pay attention to the maintenance of these 8 places, let alone drive for 10 years, is to drive to scrap there is no problem!
The 11-year-old Li Wei drove like a new car
I am now driving a 2011 model of manual transmission old Li Wei, the overall driving of more than 150,000 kilometers, my fuel tank is about 40 liters, according to the 92 gasoline 7.39 yuan / L oil price some time ago, I filled a tank of oil price of about 300 yuan, a tank of oil can run about 600 kilometers, combined to spend 5 cents per kilometer, such fuel consumption performance I am still very satisfied!
11-year maintenance project:
In the first 5 years, I only carried out simple basic maintenance of the vehicle, that is, the conventional oil change, and my habit is that no matter how much mileage is driven, I must maintain it once every six months, I will choose 5W-30 oil in the summer, I will choose 0W-30 oil in the winter, each maintenance In addition to the oil, I also have to replace the oil filter, air filter and air conditioning filter, but also check the pattern and wear of the tire, and clean the valve every year!
In the 6th year, in addition to the basic maintenance, I also carried out an overall inspection of the vehicle, because the tire pattern wear is close to the safety line, coupled with the cracks on the surface of the tire, so I replaced the tires of the whole car, and then checked the spark plug, the effect of combustion is OK, there is no replacement and continued to use; checked the water content of the brake oil, within 2.5%, there is no replacement, continue to use; check the engine timing system, because it is a chain, so there is no need for maintenance; check the brake pads, It was still within the safety line and had not been replaced; finally the freezing point of the antifreeze and the gear oil were checked, which were within the standard range, so it continued to be used.
In the 7th and 8th years, I still carried out simple basic maintenance.
In the 9th year, the winter vehicle started difficult, so replaced a brand new battery, and now the effect of lighting fire is leveraged!
In the 10th-11th year, we will still carry out simple basic maintenance!
This is my 11 years of car review, there are some small parts damage in the middle, but basically negligible, the current car to the second-hand car market assessment, the car dealer can also get my price of 20,000 yuan, but considering that the cost of buying another car is too large, so I decided to drive this car until scrapped.
Pay attention to these 3 places and let the 10-year-old car drive the same as the new car
In fact, many times, the car is easy to damage is because we will not use the car caused, sometimes over-believe in the recommendation of the merchant, the car for excessive maintenance, is also the main cause of vehicle damage, so next I will share with you, as a small white car owner, how do we reasonably maintain our car?
1, adhere to reasonable maintenance, do not do excessive maintenance.
Many car owners have only been driving for more than a year, they have been fooled by the merchants, change this and that, the result is that the car is not well maintained, but there are various problems, so we must learn to maintain their car reasonably.
2. Vehicle maintenance can be divided into three stages: morning, middle and evening.
Early (1-5 years): At this stage, we only need to carry out the most conventional basic maintenance, each time the maintenance, not to change the oil on the finish, you need to check the tire wear, brake pad thickness, antifreeze is missing, etc., at this time mainly to check, do not need to consider any other type of maintenance items, unless the vehicle really fails and so on.
Mid-term (6th year): This time is the key period of vehicle maintenance inspection, at this time is not to say that we need to change this and that, or to check the main, this time the inspection will be very meticulous, in addition to the basic maintenance, need to check the spark plug, the freezing point of the antifreeze, the thickness of the brake pads, the wear of the tire, the timing system, the moisture content of the brake oil, whether the gasoline filter is dirty, whether the chassis parts are loose and abnormal, if you find a problem, you can directly maintain and replace it without hesitation.
Later: (Year 7 backwards): At this time the vehicle is the best to drive, no need for additional maintenance, problems to solve the problem is good, or a principle to check the maintenance.
3, gasoline choose regular gas station, oil choose formal channels
In fact, many car owners sometimes greedy and cheap, refueling gasoline at small gas stations, there may be no big gas station guarantee in terms of oil and quality; as for the oil, it is also the focus of maintenance, for inferior oil, there may not be any feeling in a short period of time, but the long-term use of the harm is very large.
8 details in vehicle maintenance
For vehicle maintenance, every car owner will have such a question, that is, how to judge whether this project needs maintenance in the maintenance process, so we will discuss it from the details.
1, cleaning the throttle, cleaning the throttle is a harmless maintenance behavior, cleaning once a year can be, and every time cleaning, must be removed down the power off cleaning, so that it is the cleanest that can be washed, after cleaning and installing, we must also pay attention to the matching of the throttle valve, to avoid the situation of idle speed is too high or high and low.
2, spark plug and ignition coil inspection, if these two failures, the most intuitive feeling is the engine failure lamp light light, accelerated shaking and powerless, if the spark plug is removed, the spark plug surface will not fully burn gasoline, at this time may be the problem of the ignition coil; if the top of the spark plug appears serious ablation, scarring, fragmentation and electrode melting phenomenon, then it is the problem of the spark plug, at this time it is best to directly replace the spark plug.
Focus: When we check the spark plug, we will encounter such a situation, the ceramic part of the spark plug will have a circle of yellow ablation marks, the explanation given by the auto repair plant is that the spark plug leaks, it will fool us to replace the spark plug, in fact, this is completely nonsense, because the spark plug is installed on the top of the fire coil, when the ignition coil works, it will be high-voltage discharge, thus forming a high-voltage arc, which will form a yellow ablation trace on the surface of the spark plug ceramic in the long run, and does not affect normal use.
3, check the transmission oil, whether it is a manual transmission model or an automatic transmission model, the quality of the transmission oil is directly related to whether the gearbox can work normally, according to the mileage replacement or good, according to the time to replace, are too general, we can more intuitively judge whether it needs to be replaced, that is, put a little gearbox oil out, if the transmission oil is clean and transparent and no obvious impurities, it is completely unnecessary to replace, on the contrary, it is recommended to replace.
4, check the engine timing system, the current engine timing system can be divided into timing belt and timing chain two, if it is really a belt, we can remove the timing cover to check whether there are obvious cracks on the surface of the timing belt, if there is a direct replacement, if not, then do not need to replace; if it is a timing chain, I think there is no need to replace, after all, some engine replacement timing chain is equivalent to overhaul, so it is better to wait until the engine overhaul and then replace it as a whole.
5, check the brake oil and antifreeze, in fact, these two items are relatively simple to check, we can use the brake oil detector and freezing point instrument to check, in general, the water content of the brake oil does not exceed 3% is normal; the freezing point of the antifreeze is normal below -25 ° C.
6, tire maintenance and inspection, tires are the top priority of all maintenance projects, sloppy at all, first check the depth of the tire pattern, as long as it does not reach the safety line, you can use it normally; secondly, check whether there are obvious cracks on the surface of the tire, if there is, you can consider direct replacement; the last thing that needs to be checked is whether the tire side has a wound, if there is a wound but does not hurt the sidewall cord, you can continue to use, on the contrary, you need to replace it directly.
7, check the brake pads, the inspection of the brake pads is actually a lot simpler, removing the tire check is the most intuitive, the brake pads are 2 pieces, inside and outside need to be checked; in fact, we can also judge, because the brake pads have metal alarm lines on them, when the brake pads grind to the safety line, every time you drive or step on the brakes, it will produce a sharp abnormal sound, similar to the sound of whistling, at this time you need to replace the brake pads immediately.
8, when washing the car, do not smear tire wax, many merchants will buy inferior tire wax, this tire wax will not only accelerate the aging of the tire, and even corrode our rim.
3 "pits" in the car maintenance process
Our vehicles have a variety of pits in the maintenance process, which can be described as one pit after another, and the pits are different, so everyone must polish their eyes and avoid being deceived!
1, cleaning carbon deposits, often two or three thousand maintenance prices, known to be able to control the burning oil and reduce fuel consumption, but the effect is not as magical as advertised, the current mainstream cleaning method on the market is walnut sand and dry ice cleaning, the cleaning effect is indeed very good, but the burning oil is a mechanical failure and design problems, simple cleaning can not solve the problem of burning oil.
2, air conditioning system sterilization, many car owners of the air conditioning odor has two reasons, the first is the air conditioning filter element for a long time without replacement caused; the second is the summer vehicle open air conditioning refrigeration, evaporation box surface condensation vapor, a long time does not dry lead to bacteria breeding and thus produce odor, to completely solve the only way to completely remove the evaporation box cleaning, but this need to remove the entire dashboard, a little worthless, and the so-called sterilization disinfection, but in the evaporation box surface spray cleaning agent, as long as the cleaning agent is not completely volatilized, It will continue to leave incense, but this way is tantamount to covering the ears and stealing the bell, so the most effective way is to replace the air conditioning filter regularly in the early stage of the new car.
3, tire replacement using lubricating fluid, many car owners should also encounter such a situation, tire edge leakage, wheel hub paint off such a situation, mainly because we in the tire replacement time, the auto repair shop did not choose a special grease, but the use of dishwashing detergent instead of lubrication, which will accelerate the corrosion of the wheel hub, resulting in the occurrence of air leakage, at this time we can only replace the rim.
summary
At the end of the day, the way to get a vehicle to be as new for 10 years is actually very simple, that is:
Regular maintenance is indispensable, not to be fooled and over-insured;
Standardize refueling without running around, where the fault repairs;
The hardware failure is not careless, and it can run in another ten years!
As the saying goes, "the car is not broken, it is repaired", in fact, as long as the car does not lack oil, antifreeze, and transmission oil, there will be no big problem, so everyone must have their own opinions in the process of driving and raising a car, we can not repair the car, but we must understand the cat grease in it, so as to avoid being deceived!