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If your car won’t start when the car ignition key is turned on due to weak battery and no other car can be used to jumpstart your car engine then the only option left is to push start your car.

But not all cars can be push start and this you must remember, automatic transmission models cannot be started by pushing, if you do it will cause damage to your car transmission.

Only cars with manual transmission can be push start, but how you it depends on the type of engine.

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Jump starting is when you are trying to start your car with a weak car battery using another car with sufficient car battery capacity by connecting both car batteries in parallel connection without removing battery on each car. It should be done in a correct manner, failure to do so may lead to car battery explosion, thus may result in damage of your car or worst injuries to a person.

When jump starting your car engine use a booster car battery with correct battery rating, incorrect battery rating will damage your car. Avoid jump starting a frozen car battery, it could explode. 

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When you are driving and you find your engine coolant temperature gauge to be on the red zone (maximum level), it means that your have a vehicle engine overheating, if this is the case, what to do?

When your experiencing engine overheating, don’t continue driving, if you continue to do so it may result into vehicle fire, better to move your vehicle off the road and away from traffic.

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One of the common services for routine car maintenance that we sometime neglected is the oil change.

Oil change frequency is one of the crucial items that we must always follow. If we follow the oil change frequency set by the auto manufacturer it will prevent excessive wear on our car engine key components.

Oil change frequency is depending on the driving condition, for the normal operation conditions the oil change frequency is every 6 months or 5,000 km which ever comes first for diesel engine and once a year or 10,000 km which ever comes first for gasoline engine.

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When we are an owner a vehicle we must also know the basic of checking our vehicle as routine for day to day operation, these are essential to have our vehicle operates properly and provide as a safe journey when we are on the road behind the steering wheel.

Tips on what to check from time to time

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Most of us might not be aware sometimes on how to properly park our vehicle, especially when we park along side the road.

Sometimes accident happened even when our vehicle is just park and not moving, that’s why safety measures must be practice to avoid a much bigger problem in the event that an accident happened.

Safe parking procedure must be taken into consideration.

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When our vehicle encountered flat tire were just stop then get the spare tire and have it installed in our vehicle then zoom away.

But do you know that installing tire also have a proper way of doing it. Vehicle manufacturers considered the tire assembly as vital part that is why it is needed to observed proper way of tightening it.

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