Comments on: How to Extend the Life of Your Car http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/06/13/how-to-extend-the-life-of-your-car/ Personal finance that makes cents. Common sense advice on topics from high interest savings accounts, frugality, cd rates, money market accounts, mortgage rates, how to get out of debt, money management and more. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:35:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: AllFinancialMatters » Blog Archive » How to… Personal Finance Edition http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/06/13/how-to-extend-the-life-of-your-car/#comment-7556 AllFinancialMatters » Blog Archive » How to… Personal Finance Edition Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:16:32 +0000 http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/06/12/how-to-extend-the-life-of-your-car/#comment-7556 [...] Extend the Life of Your Car [...] [...] Extend the Life of Your Car [...]

]]> By: » Sunday Speed Linking | Abandon Nest http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/06/13/how-to-extend-the-life-of-your-car/#comment-873 » Sunday Speed Linking | Abandon Nest Mon, 26 Jun 2006 01:37:47 +0000 http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/06/12/how-to-extend-the-life-of-your-car/#comment-873 [...] Extend the life of your car - This is an article that everyone I know should read. I’ll admit it, I don’t take the greatest care with my vehicles. They run, and they get me from place to place. When something breaks, I’ll fix it. Barring something really bad, I generally don’t do maintenance. After reading this article, that changed. With such a comprehensive set of tips, I find it hard to ignore them. [...] [...] Extend the life of your car - This is an article that everyone I know should read. I’ll admit it, I don’t take the greatest care with my vehicles. They run, and they get me from place to place. When something breaks, I’ll fix it. Barring something really bad, I generally don’t do maintenance. After reading this article, that changed. With such a comprehensive set of tips, I find it hard to ignore them. [...]

]]> By: rich http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/06/13/how-to-extend-the-life-of-your-car/#comment-458 rich Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:14:58 +0000 http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/06/12/how-to-extend-the-life-of-your-car/#comment-458 "Yes, your automatic transmission will keep your car from rolling. Your brakes will last longer, though, if you use the parking brake." It's true that you should use your parking brake in an automatic, but saving your brakes isn't one of the reasons -- brakes don't come into play when you *don't* use your parking brake. What using your parking brake does: it takes the load off of the tang in the transmission that keeps the car still in park, and it keeps the parking brake itself in shape for the situations in which you do need it (especially emergencies). When your hydraulic brakes go out, you don't want to be without a mechanical backup, and when you put your parking brake on on that long hill, you don't want to get back to your car to find it won't release. “Yes, your automatic transmission will keep your car from rolling. Your brakes will last longer, though, if you use the parking brake.”

It’s true that you should use your parking brake in an automatic, but saving your brakes isn’t one of the reasons — brakes don’t come into play when you *don’t* use your parking brake.

What using your parking brake does: it takes the load off of the tang in the transmission that keeps the car still in park, and it keeps the parking brake itself in shape for the situations in which you do need it (especially emergencies). When your hydraulic brakes go out, you don’t want to be without a mechanical backup, and when you put your parking brake on on that long hill, you don’t want to get back to your car to find it won’t release.

]]> By: dabrfe http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/06/13/how-to-extend-the-life-of-your-car/#comment-453 dabrfe Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:13:04 +0000 http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/06/12/how-to-extend-the-life-of-your-car/#comment-453 "Click and Clack" (of Car Talk fame) have some pointers on tire rotation. Basically, be sure the cost of rotating the tires doesn't exceed the savings of longer lasting tires: http://cars.cartalk.com/content/advice/rotatingtires.html “Click and Clack” (of Car Talk fame) have some pointers on tire rotation. Basically, be sure the cost of rotating the tires doesn’t exceed the savings of longer lasting tires:

http://cars.cartalk.com/content/advice/rotatingtires.html

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