How Tobacco Can Help Prevent Expensive Car Repairs
- April 10, 2023
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The domestic fleet of 60 million cars is overwhelmingly old and unlikely to “get younger” in the foreseeable future. And then there is the huge shortage of spare
The domestic fleet of 60 million cars is overwhelmingly old and unlikely to “get younger” in the foreseeable future. And then there is the huge shortage of spare parts that are “brought up”, at the same time the price is firmly “warmed up”. And what to do, you ask? There is only one way out – to remember the “old-fashioned” tricks that allow you to ride not thanks to, but in spite of.
How does a driver differ from a driver? Experience and knowledge that enable the first to solve any malfunction himself, without calling a tow truck every time. And although there are fewer and fewer drivers over the years, Russians still have some useful skills. And now that it has become extremely difficult to trade in “tired” cars for new ones, these lifehacks can come in very handy. To each.
Why are there cars, today it is difficult to buy even the necessary spare parts in stores – there is a shortage. And about financial expenses – with such and such prices for “pieces of iron” – we will be completely silent. In addition, breakdowns do not always happen at the entrance or in a busy city street. Sometimes the “iron horse” fails on the highway or in the village, when you need not haughty advice, but real tricks to somehow get out of it. And here the old-fashioned methods will help.
As an example, let’s take a radiator leak – a breakdown that does not allow you to “painlessly” go to a car service. Engine overheating is a moderate prospect, so something will have to be done. A piece of “cooler” that has fallen off is a phrase, but this happens very rarely, much more often antifreeze flows out through a small fistula that needs to be repaired with something. The point is small – to find something. Yes, so that both the problem is solved and the firewood is not confused.
Connoisseurs will say that it would be necessary to top up with a special liquid, which seals the system and allows you to crawl to the workshop at the “slowest speed”. Great, just one question – where in the outback, on a highway in a dense forest, can you get such a composition? The practice of Soviet drivers will propose another simpler and more affordable solution – tobacco. Normal, cigarette, sold in every store at the lowest prices.
What to do with it? We break two or three cigarettes, take out the harmful filling, take out firewood and wood chips from there and send the leaves directly to the expansion tank. After it swells, the tobacco will reliably close the hole, and you can go to a car repair shop or garage, where it is much more comfortable to make repairs. And in order to later remove the “emergency tool” from the system, you just need to insert an ordinary “Zhiguli” fuel filter into the circuit – it will clear everything in a few tens of kilometers.
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How does a driver differ from a chauffeur? Experience and knowledge that enable the first to solve any malfunction himself, without calling a tow truck every time. And although there are fewer and fewer drivers over the years, Russians still have some useful skills. And now that it has become extremely difficult to trade in “tired” cars for new ones, these lifehacks can come in very handy. To each.
Why are there cars, today it is difficult to buy even the necessary spare parts in stores – there is a shortage. And about financial expenses – with such and such prices for “pieces of iron” – we will be completely silent. In addition, breakdowns do not always happen at the entrance or in a busy city street. Sometimes the “iron horse” fails on the highway or in the village, when you need not haughty advice, but real tricks to somehow get out of it. And here the old-fashioned methods will help.
As an example, let’s take a radiator leak – a breakdown that does not allow you to “painlessly” go to a car service. Engine overheating is a moderate prospect, so something will have to be done. A piece of “cooler” that has fallen off is a phrase, but this happens very rarely, much more often antifreeze flows out through a small fistula that needs to be repaired with something. The point is small – to find something. Yes, so that both the problem is solved and the firewood is not confused.
Connoisseurs will say that it would be necessary to top up with a special liquid, which seals the system and allows you to crawl to the workshop at the “slowest speed”. Great, just one question – where in the outback, on a highway in a dense forest, can you get such a composition? The practice of Soviet drivers will propose another simpler and more affordable solution – tobacco. Normal, cigarette, sold in every store at the lowest prices.
What to do with it? We break two or three cigarettes, take out the harmful filling, take out firewood and wood chips from there and send the leaves directly to the expansion tank. After it swells, the tobacco will reliably close the hole, and you can go to a car repair shop or garage, where it is much more comfortable to make repairs. And in order to later remove the “emergency tool” from the system, you just need to insert an ordinary “Zhiguli” fuel filter into the circuit – it will clear everything in a few tens of kilometers.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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