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Monday, September 25, 2017

Time To Tune Car Up



Regular vehicle maintenance is the best way to help protect the investment you made in your vehicle. Performing a tune up will help extend the life of it. A tune up helps ensure that your car or truck continues to run as it should. It should also help boost the life of your engine as well as its performance. Fuel economy is often helped by regular tune-ups as well.

An engine tune up is simply and adjustment, modification of internal combustion or modification to the engine control unit. A tune up helps to yield optimal performance , increases an engine's power output, economy or durability.


A tune up often includes checking the spark plugs, plug wires, air filter and fuel filter. This is also a great time to check out any belts, hoses and fluids as well as anything that has not been running up to par. In some cases the rotor and or distributor cap will be checked. Older vehicles should also be checked for ignition timing, idle speed and idle mixture as well as O2 sensor(s)

Older vehicles with non electronic ignitions should be tuned up every 10,000 to 12,000 miles or every year whichever happens first. New cars with electronic ignition and fuel injection systems are scheduled for tune ups every 25,000 to 100,000 miles.


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Funtastic Friday because making sure little jobs like this get done allows you to have more fun


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1 comment:

  1. Investment on car prove the best investment when it running for a long time. So to keep it in working condition you must look after it. Do regular maintenance by changing air filter, fuel filter, oil at particular time interval. Make repair of brakes if you heard any unusual sound coming from this. Also go for a reputed car repair center to do complete tune up.

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