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660
Summary:
You can save hundreds of dollars on garage fees every year by carrying out minor servicing and maintenance jobs on your car yourself. Armed with a selection of widely available automotive tools, a garage manual for your car, and enough time and patience to get a job done properly, pretty much anyone can carry out the routine tasks needed to keep your car on the road and running smoothly.
One of the most satisfying aspects of carrying out maintenance tasks on your vehicle is taking your time in your garage and learning something new while making your car run better. So in order to get started, you’ll want to park your vehicle in a garage with locked garage doors or behind a locked gate. If your garage doesn’t have a door that closes, you might want to consider a garage door installation, because you could be risking theft of your tools, vehicle parts, or the vehicle itself. You won’t be alert to your surroundings at all time, as you will be focusing on the task at hand. You may consider hiring a professional garage door contractor if you need garage door installation services.
Whether you are working behind closed doors or not, never leave your car running unattended, not even for a few minutes. If out in the open, someone could steal your vehicle. If inside, the vehicle exhaust can get dangerous deceptively fast.
Don’t leave items on the ground that you can accidentally drive over. You are bound to damage your tires, whatever tool or part you ran over, or both.
