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Durability of the car

Durability of the car in many respects depends on the style of management, and so today we'll talk about how we drive, and how not to ride, unless, of course, there is a desire to preserve and car and money.

Going by car to work or on a business trip, try to count how many times you have to use the clutch, gearbox and brakes. After all, while the machine is in order, who rarely comes to mind to pay attention to how those or other controls. Of course, to change, say, till time erased brake pads is simple. But the replacement of brake drums or discs already have to tinker. And it is not easy to cope with the worn out details of coupling or gearbox.

Nothing, of course, the car is not eternal. But if you are, say, unfairly often use coupling, maneuvering in dense city traffic, or remove foot from the pedal, even standing at a traffic light, laid 80,000 kilometers clutch disc serve, of course, will not. Early his replacement will not save the situation: on the order of premature failure of plates of "basket" clutch release bearing which from thoughtless operation of transmission simply "dries up" and breaks through the "basket" ...

The same can be said about the transmission. The most "tolerant" of domestic - "Zhiguli" transmission is capable of "departure" and 150, and 200 thousand kilometers without repair. But dashing management of it, accompanied by jerky lever from one position to another, long before term puts out of action bronze synchronizers. This, though not the most difficult, but repair. Therefore patient drivers, changing the transmission, use the procedure "at the three accounts," that is, as if to himself saying "one, two, three" while translating the lever from one position to another.

Once a friend of mine complained about the quality of parts of its steering almost new "zhigulenka." And with good reason to complain: the machine does not run and thirty thousand, and steering, say, the pendulum on deterioration approached the critical point. It turned out that my friend - a big fan under suitable conditions and to twirl speed of the wheel, as is sometimes done on rough terrain. The look of these pirouettes on the road, maybe it effectively. But as they say, for everything in this world has to pay. Including for harmless, at first sight, "tricks".

However, our "athletes" who prefer to playfully take off the bat, you have to pay not only coming from the steering system and prematurely worn tires. With this style of driving huge loading falls on a drive detail - elastic sleeve bearings and cross the propeller shaft, clutch plate, not to mention the engine. No doubt, the modern cars equipped with motors, can be for some time to go, as sports. But for the "sports" loadings they are not intended, of course, if it is not a "one-off" car.

What if there is still the need to "tear" motor - to get out of the muddy road or to slip in sand or on ice? Experienced drivers know what to do in such cases: they create the necessary conditions for the car, increase its permeability. It is enough to lower a little tires of driving wheels to one atmosphere to dramatically improve traction with the surface of the dirt road. On perdneprivodnom same car superior to cross the car of classical configuration, difficult sites of dirt roads overcome, moving in reverse.