Your car is not a static possession to just buy and then never worry about looking after or maintaining. You have to regularly fill it with fuel, top off the oil and water, inflate the tyres correctly and so much more. Cars over three years old need to have an annual MOT, and all cars should be serviced regularly to make sure that all those moving parts remain in good condition. Here are just five of the top benefits of regular vehicle servicing.
Road Safety
Cars that are in good condition tend to be safer than those that are in poor repair. And as much as this applies to your vehicle, it also applies to every other vehicle on the road too. If every car is in perfect running order, the risk of breakdown or an accident happening is dramatically reduced for everyone on the road.
Limits Running Costs
Making sure that your vehicle’s moving parts are all properly aligned and working as efficiently as possible means that you are also making sure that your car is using expensive consumables like fuel, oil and water in as efficient quantities as possible. Wear and tear, too, is reduced, which means that car parts will last longer. All of this saves you money, allowing you to manage your finances and budget for fun activities rather than simply keeping as much money aside as you can afford for vehicle expenses.
Prolongs the Life of Your Car
Proper servicing and maintaining your car in good running order has another benefit too: it makes your car last so much longer than it otherwise would. Reducing wear and tear on the vehicle, ensuring fuel systems are working efficiently, and generally making sure that everything is as it should be means that the car will remain in excellent condition for longer, giving you years of motoring with little hassle.
Maintains Your Car’s Value
Maintaining an up to date service record is a great way to ensure that you get a very good price for your car when you decide to sell it on. If you opt for manufacturer services, the logbook will reflect this and you will be able to command a good price for your car which will have authentic spares, installed and maintained by manufacturer approved mechanics. Save money on car servicing in Normanton and get a quote from experts at Reg Greenwood (01977702317)
It’s Environmentally Friendly
There is another excellent reason for maintaining your car in great order. Ensuring that seals are tight and that fluids do not leak, making sure that rust is not allowed to corrode important parts of the car, and generally keeping your car well-contained as a unit can be a boon for the environment. With millions of cars on the road every day, having even a very low percentage of these in poor condition – leaking, shedding detritus and causing damage to other cars – can pose a significant burden on the environment. Petrol, oil, brake fluid, chunks of rubber and steel, rusting patches from your chassis: all of these are difficult for the environment to cope with, and can cause major problems for that piece of ground in the future. Given that emissions tests are now part of the MOT test, you would do well to keep your car’s structural integrity intact for the sake of the environment as well as remaining legally compliant.
The above are only five reasons for ensuring you get your car serviced regularly: but they are important reasons and each one is compelling in its own right.