Car Maintenance Log: A Must for Car Owners

As a car owner you will certainly be happy to get the most life out of your car. The best way to achieve this is by proper maintenance and maintaining a log book to keep track of the car maintenance issues is a crucial step in car maintenance. Amidst your busy schedule, it is rather very hard to remember a long list of routine maintenance issues related to your car. A car maintenance log book will provide you an incomparable assistance. To start with, procure a notebook with good number of pages with a durable plastic wrapper. Use as many dividers as you want to sort out and categorize the various maintenance issues related to your car.

You may use the first page to record the important statistics pertaining to your car including the make, model, identification number and insurance details.

Keep track of your fuel mileage. Spend a minute or two to do this during every refill and decreasing mileage will let you know the repair issues that might eventually crop up.

Record the mileage and date of oil change. A note about the brand and type of oil used will be of additional help to ascertain which brand you will use the next time or to change for another if necessary.

Make schedule for tire replacement, keep track of their depth from time to time. Note the brand of tires you purchased for future reference.

Replace your brake pads at regular intervals. Maintain a schedule for changing the brakes and cleaning the dust away from the pads and car wheels.

A schedule for replacing air and fuel filters is necessary for every maintenance log book. With an advice from your car mechanic decide on the frequency in which you need to replace these filters.

Keep a note on the accidents, wrecks and major or minor repairs that you might come across. Most importantly, maintain all receipts of your car repairs. This will help you in a myriad ways besides letting you know the amount you spent on your car from time to time.

The best idea would be to maintain a digital car maintenance log to remind you with automatic alerts regarding various maintenance issues.

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Vivek is a mechanical engineer and has more than 7 years of experience as a writer. He blogs about various topics; entrepreneurship being one. His interests range from poetry, music to photography and travel. He can be reached at sdkrdk@gmail.com