My car More Good From You!

My car More Good From You!

Category Engineering
By: Dimas Harsono
Jakarta, January 7, 2010

Today often people consider having or buying a car as an investment, a status symbol, or even a purpose in life. Many people do not realize that having a vehicle is a long commitment, especially in terms of maintenance.

Vehicle maintenance is not just an oil change, tires, spark plugs, or wipers regularly, but fundamentally, the type of fuel used, how to use the features of the car, even the way driving. Because this is a deep topic, for now we do not discuss ordinances driving the vehicle, but we will discuss car care with real meaning.

 

Misguided

Many people buy a vehicle today just to see or hear from friends or relatives of the vehicle which the person used or never used. Many examples of such cases:

Someone wants to buy a vehicle with a certain brand that he had never used before, and he sought out information only with the advice of family or friends who never wear. In this case he may be advised not to take the vehicle to the brand because they have issues A, B, and C. Then, armed with the advice that he consult the experience, people were not buying the vehicle brand. But he asked the man who had been so long did not wear the vehicle with the brand. If seen from the case of logic or analysis process certainly does not make sense, because over time a vehicle maker will definitely improve vehicle model error (unless it is a vehicle manufacturer in the communist country that can only be copied other manufacturer's models), in addition to the factors that needs to be seen and the most damning is how people are caring for their vehicles.

Can we see these days at the gas station, for example, a recent model vehicle has clearly had a new engine fueling technology that is not within specifications.

Example: a luxury car with a V6 engine in 2009 filled with premium gas! Or the car in 2005 which usually wear certain oil official workshop, replaced with lower standards in specialist workshop only because the warranty has run out and save money!

Brand Versus Mind
So do not be surprised if in Indonesia this beloved so many people are getting carried away-minded brand current.
Maybe now you ask, what does minded brand with gasoline, oil, or car maintenance?

The answer: A lot of people in Indonesia connects Brand with Ease of Maintenance. So in the minds of the people there thought like "I'm going to buy a car brand, because it is obviously easy to in-patient". The truth is not like that, before you shock, I would love to know the truth: It's not WHAT you own, it's HOW you own it! Means, no matter what you have, but how you take care of what you have. Sometimes for some people I know, are fanatical about the brand into something socially danger, because the person with the burning passion '45 defended the brand they love until the deadline and if given the ugliness of the brand will be easy fiery alias angry.

 

For that, let us refer to my opening sentence in this article:

"Many people do not realize that having a vehicle is a long commitment, particularly in terms of treatment."

 

With those words, can be applied to vehicle maintenance issues that I mean, with the condition that Brand Minded. Care here as I said it was not just a routine thing that we can submit to the garage while our vehicles are still under warranty, but also a way of taking the car , especially to understand the complexity and features found in the car itself. Nowadays more and more cars are sold by using multimedia technology and computer information, in the world of luxury cars namely Mercedes-Benz COMAND system, BMW iDrive, Audi with MMI, Lexus RemoteTouch, and so on. Even now cars almost everything (not just luxury cars) have limp-home system, ie if there is damage to the machine, the system will work and limit engine speed at a certain RPM and a certain speed to membawaya with one piece to the garage (so no strike or fire, etc.).

Unfortunately, many car owners who do not understand vehicle and reckless to believe what other people say rather than learn it yourself or from other sources, such as car community, internet, automotive expert, and so on. Not a few people I met said "ah dont really car filled apa2 premium" when it clearly stated in the handbook "MINIMUM RON 91" alias Pertamax. Then the man said that he was told by a sales showroom where he bought a vehicle that simply by using a premium only car to break down. It's true and not false, it is very true that the car works with gasoline, although over time the accumulation of dirt that occurs due to the use of fuel that does not conform to fatally damage the engine, then the blame when it's like this is most likely the car brand. Bottom line: the short life of the engine will be fast when compared to the corresponding fuel usage. Behold, a vehicle that has been designed in such a way by the engineers to use the fuel, oil, and spare parts that should be used, and in modern cars today, the tolerance for error has narrowed due to sophisticated systems that are used.

So really a danger once thought "I'll buy a car brand because the brand is famous for easy care." Should the owner of the car must be able to think that with the advancement of increasingly sophisticated technology, the vehicle has a high failure rate as well IF not properly treated by the user as car use. So there's no harm in before buying a car for a consultation with the workshop, people who have had a car with a brand, model, and the same year it via car communities on the internet or in the real world. Brand does not make a car more easy or hard on the patient, only the man himself mindset that makes it more difficult or easier.
Once again as in my opening sentence:

"Many people do not realize that having a vehicle is a long commitment, particularly in terms of treatment."

Technology now is to allow users to take care of his stuff, as well as by car. Modern cars today, especially luxury cars worth millions of dollars that have been equipped with computers to provide information to motorists know which part is damaged or incorrect operation, so it can be justified in the garage and without cheated anyway. Even so unfortunately not a few people who like to circumvent or replace spare parts with undue, usually the same stuff but with low quality. Or a really tricked into thinking he was creatively an automotive engineer, such as weld something that should not be welded, or install something that is not recommended (usually by force), for example: installing HID lights on a car that is not worth the lamp shell fitted lamp types them. So the result could endanger other motorists, but unfortunately showrooms now also take the initiative to boost sales because of tight competition car sales.

So do not be surprised if there is a car brand on the label "not easy in care" or "fussy". Not because the car is really fussy, or brand that makes cranky, but of the incompetence of the owners who take shortcuts in caring for the car or too creative with the vehicle, so that the lifetime of the car can be interrupted by frequent broken. Please note: That the care of a car is not the same as caring for a bike! And how to take care of the car was always different from one brand, model, and generation.
Example: Caring for the 1979 Toyota Corolla is NOT the same as taking care of the same brand and model but the latest years, mainly due to differences in system design, technology, and also the minimum requirements (gasoline are used differently, also with oil, radiator water, etc.).

Learn, Learn, Practice!

The owners of vehicles today is advisable to find out about the car before and after they buy, because even though the car is a means of transportation that does not mean only that task. Especially with the advances in technology that can help the driver and passengers to get to the destination safely, and also at the same time sustain and make work more efficient owners (some cars today already have internet connection and a TV that can help work like an aircraft ).

Know the limitations of your vehicle so you can really enjoy it and do not ruin it for something that is not understood, either because they do not understand the technology, or how to use it. Know limitations will also help the driver to drive a car safely, so that no unpleasant things like thinking that the car can be used as a race car or bulldoze roads safely with puddles at high speed.

 

It's not WHAT you own, it's HOW you own it!

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