Saving Money on Your Car Expenses
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It’s been frustrating lately to have the cost of running your car constantly rising, right? As well as trying to find the cheapest gas, though, there are a bunch of other ways in which you can run your car more cheaply. A recent list of tips at The Street had all kinds of ideas for how to save money on your car expenses. Some of the most useful included:
- Check your tire pressure: Tire pressure that’s too low means you use more gas than you need to, and it makes your tires wear out faster. Simple and quick to do, but can save you money.
- Check your oil regularly: Something we often neglect to do, especially with newer cars that just seem to run themselves - but checking and changing your oil regularly will save you heaps by avoiding damage to your engine and extending its life.
- Check fluids like lubricants, anti-freeze coolant, transmission, brake and clutch fluid: It’s worth spending a few minutes learning how to check all of these, because running your car with low levels will damage it or make driving dangerous.
- Check your gas cap: This does sound a bit silly, but apparently 17% of all vehicles have either a missing or faulty gas cap, which allows all that expense gas just to escape out into the air without providing you any value.
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