Top Things That Can Lead to a Breakdown for Your Car

Top Things That Can Lead to a Breakdown for Your Car

Owning a car is seen as an investment, which if not looked after can fail and breakdown. Having some idea of what could lead to a breakdown will help you to maintain the car better and try and prevent this. Breakdowns are highly inconvenient, especially if they happen when you are in a rush or on your way somewhere like work. And you don’t always want to rely on Subaru maintenance or your local garage to help you. So making sure they are as limited as possible is very helpful for your day-to-day drives.

If you are unsure what the top causes of breakdown are then hopefully these few tips will give you an idea, so you can keep an idea on them in the future to try and prevent your breakdown disaster.

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Car battery

Car batteries are one of the leading causes of breakdowns so keeping them maintained and knowing what to keep an eye out for will really help in reducing your chances of a breakdown. Batteries can go flat for a number of things mainly leaving your car unused for a period of time, faulty part, cars charging system is faulty, fault with the actual battery, and the age of the battery. These are the main causes which aren’t exactly easy to track but getting battery checks or turning the car over even if not using the car can help to keep the battery working and stop those breakdowns.

Damaged Tyres

Flat tyres like battery failure is a common and annoying event, usually, a flat tyre is caused because a sharp object has entered it somewhere and caused it to deflate. Other reasons you could get a flat is the tyre’s valve failing, if you hit a deep pothole or curb, collision, and worn old tyres. Keeping an eye on your tyres can be really helpful have the treads checked if they look low and worn and if you hit a curb or pothole make sure you check the tyre and rim for damage. You can change a tyre yourself or call out your breakdown cover to help you, usually, cars come with repair kits or spare tyres to do this.

Engine oil levels

Checking your oil levels is crucial especially before long journeys if the engine oil levels are too high or low then this can damage the engine and cause it to cut out. You can keep on top of your engine oil by checking it regularly with the dipstick, it should between the two lines on the stick which warrants correct levels. Make sure if you are replacing any oil then you check the handbook for your vehicle as oil grades change between cars and you could end up doing damage to your engine which will cost you a lot to fix running it with the wrong oil.

If you are worried about breaking down maybe you have an older car or you for some reason are prone to them then hopefully these few tips will give you an idea on the main things to keep an eye on to help reduce your issues.

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