Don’t Just Settle for a Car MOT Manchester – Start the Year as you mean to go on
With the New Year comes all those resolutions, the ones which you make either in the party-fuelled euphoria of the night itself or the exhausted aftermath of the morning after. Unfortunately, since they tend to involve stopping doing things which you enjoy (eating cakes, drinking beer) or starting to do things which you’ve spent the previous 12 months guiltily putting off (jogging, reading some Dickens), resolutions of this kind tend to whither to nothing before February puts in an appearance.
If you want to make some resolutions which you’ve got a better chance of living up to and which, incidentally, might end up saving you lots of money on car maintenance, then a far more sensible step is to make them on behalf of your vehicle itself. All too often, we neglect our motors until they let us know they need more attention in the clearest manner possible; by grinding to a halt in the fast lane of the M62, for example, or belching plumes of black smoke when you’re on your way to a vital job interview. By resolving to make your car leaner, fitter and all those other things you haven’t yet managed to make yourself, you’ll be prolonging its’ life and saving yourself money in the meantime.
Regular Servicing – getting your car serviced on a regular basis may seem like an expense you can dodge, but it’s not really an expense, it’s an investment. Visit a specialist such as Pugbitz with your vehicle and you’ll not only get to have all the basic but vital components checked and monitored but, if your Peugeot needs any work, you’ll have that work carried out by Peugeot trained mechanics using genuine Peugeot parts.
Do the Small Stuff Yourself – don’t wait for the regular service, however, to check the smaller details of your car. Aspects such as the tyre pressure, fluid levels (oil, brake fluid, windscreen wash, power steering fluid etc.) and even the cleanliness of the body work can all have a dramatic effect on both the longevity of your car and the fuel efficiency here and now. Leaving your car unwashed until some comedian writes ‘Clean me’ in the dirt on the back window may seem hilarious, but it means that salt and winter debris are doing their best to settle onto your car and corrode its bodywork.
Lose Some Weight – those love handles may be proving extremely stubborn, but the good news is that slimming your car down is much simpler than slimming yourself down. Check the contents of the boot – do you need to carry that sports equipment everywhere? Does the roof rack need to be permanently fitted even though you only use it for the annual holiday? One discarded fast food wrapper may be fairly light, but how much do the 250 or so littering the floor of your back seat weigh? Every extra kilogram has an effect on fuel efficiency, so slimming your vehicle down is another simple way of saving money.
Make friends with your mechanic – not literally, perhaps (unless they’re like the nice people at Pugbitz, in which case feel free to say ‘hello’), but visiting your local garage on a regular basis will result in the people who work on your car knowing it almost as well as you do. The benefit of this will be that they’ll spot problems early and offer exactly the right solutions. That funny noise your car’s making that only you seem to be able to hear? A mechanic who sees the car regularly will be able to hear that somethings not quite right and will know exactly what to do about it.
So why not get to know us and book an appointment to get your car MOT and Servicing done!