I'm cheap! That's because I never could earn enough as some folks could. Now, its the in-thing to be conservative. To extend your cars life beyond the normal, avoid avoidable wear out and costly repairs, try the simple tip that works for many of us. It avoids excessive engine, transmission wear, makes your car last longer. You'll have fewer repair expenses.
Now, I'm recalling some years back when I was a delivery guy, too. I learned a simple car care truth. You won't hear of it from your mechanic - but tens of thousands of us car buffs practice a simple routine to double and triple the life of our working cars and equipment. So can you!
Back then, I had to be cheap. And, I wanted twice the bang from the items I spent my hard earn cash on. That included my car and clothes. If you're like that too, here is a good tip to avoid wearing out your car, speeding around town fast as you can, making delivers. That is because that type of driving will put 5 years wear on your car in a matter of months. Who wants that! Not me!
This is what I learned about why your car can wears out twice as fast - breaks down much sooner, when you least expect it. And causes those $2000 overhauls bills.
It has to do with the very thing you love about your car - its zip and performance. This is the thing...
I suppose your more interested in getting your hot pizza to the hungry customer than thinking about the beauty of your cars performance. However, subconsciously, you are putting the most extreme form of wear punishment on your car without realizing it.
Zipping - that is, jack-rabbit burst of speed to go from stop to fast, then zooming with the gas pedal buried into the carpet, to the street you want - is hell on engines and transmissions and brakes.
This is what happens.
As you go from stop to fast, you put extreme forces against one side of your pistons, the bottom side of your motor bearings, valves tips and ends, and against the smooth curve on gear teeth.
These enormous forces squeeze out the oil. This allows opposing surfaces to touch. That touch, grinds, and literally fuses the two contact point together. As movement continues, micro-chips tear lose. That is bad news - as the oil cannot do anything about the abrasiveness - and extreme wear begins. People who know this rarely do jack rabbit starts - to limit this type rapid wear. Race car drivers care less. They rebuild their engines and transmissions constantly - for the sake of victory.
And, each faster than normal, from stop to speed, continues this abrasion pattern - unknown to you.
Each time you go from stop to zooming down the road - that initial exertion to move forward produces more metal-to-metal contact. Of course, if each speed up from dead stop was as slow as some old guys drive - little contact of the surfaces occur. But you ain't got time for slow - as tips may be involved, and missing another run could hurt that tip problem. That means less cash in your pocket. Right?
The internal problem of surfaces squeezing out the oil and touching is called metal migration. The fastest type of wear out. The same thing happens, and more so, when your motor overheats and moving parts - so intensely hot from expansion, grind against each other on a massive scale. Expansion of hot metal parts and friction involved is what brings you to a cooking hot stop, along the side of the road. The term, "migration" means metal removed, moves elsewhere. Metal migration is the term for this type extreme wear.
Here is what will limit or prevent metal migration - and make your car last twice as long. An expense avoiding thing - as you can imagine.
Specific chemistry is available and sold as an engine and transmission additive for this purpose. You add the product to the oil or fluids at oil change, usually. This chemistry limits or prevent metal migration, and other forms of wear. Your quick lube guy or parts store rarely if ever sell such products. Buy them on line and simple add them to the fluids and oils yourself. They are not expensive. The product Slick 50 is not such a product - nor those with PTFE, the Government claims.
The products I favor and recommend to prevent this problem in my engine and transmission is a brand called Mega Power. Their products have an icon of the letters "MC+" on the label. That is short for the term, "metal conditioner." That term, "metal conditioner," or the "MC+" icon is what you look for in the product you want for this type car protection.
These ingredients tend to sink into the metal surfaces - as they are thinner than oil. It is thought that with the ingredient present in the component, as two surfaces squeeze out the oil and make contact, a slight molecular change occurs. That is what prevents fusion. It avoids the welding effect. At the next contact, the surfaces are a bit smooth and slippery. They will touch and slide rather than grind - as formerly. That is what you need in your engine and transmission - to prevent the worst kind of wear; which is stop and go driving.
This is the only thing you need to know - about car care. And the best part is this: It doesn't cost - it pays you - while making you car last many year longer. Reducing friction helps give your car more take-off zip and down the road zoom - on a bit less gas, maybe. That helps with more zip and zoom and makes for way less wear.
Me and many others tend to get many more years of life out of our mechanical toys and tools - we think because of the anti-wear advantage given.
That's my tip to you delivery guys and gals. I believe, using additives containing metal conditioners in your motor and transmission that work as i describe, will keep more of your hard-earned $ in your pockets for school and such - not avoidable wear out repairs. That's what I learned about real car care.
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