When you purchase a new vehicle, you want it to last for as long as possible. You either want to get the most out of it so that you can use it during its entire life, or you want to maintain the vehicle in its best condition so that you can resell it in the future. The following tips can help you keep your car in the best condition possible.

The first thing that you want to do is to follow all of the instructions that have been provided by the manufacturer as far as maintenance is concerned. Take time to actually read the owner’s manual. The manual is going to explain when you need to get the oil changed, when certain fluids need to be topped off, and a variety of other things. This is the best way to learn about many of the features that your vehicle offers and the best way to use them.

Many people have found that making a small checklist and keeping it in the glove compartment is a great way for them to make sure that they do regular maintenance on their vehicle. They also regularly have it checked out by professionals so that the tires, hoses, air filters, and other parts that slowly wear down are replaced on a regular basis.

It is important to put the best type of fuel in your vehicle that is available in your area. You want to find something that is high quality and that comes from a reputable distributor. They will use a gas analyzer to make sure that the quality of gas that they are selling is high. This is going to help your engine to run at its best.

You should keep your new vehicle clean. You may want to buy different types of seat covers and mats that can be used inside the vehicle to protect the interior. Learn about the best way to care for the type of material that is used inside your new vehicle. For example, the care that you provide for leather chairs is going to be different than cloth chairs.

Vehicle Theft means headache and heartache for most people and major upheaval for businesses. Yet what are you doing to prevent it?

In the US a car is reported as stolen every 26 seconds and if you are lucky enough to live or work anywhere near a port or border city, the likelihood of having your vehicle stolen increases dramatically, with thieves using this geographical advantage to ship and export cars in return for payment way above the vehicle’s market value.

One very successful way to combat this crime is to have a GPS tracking device fitted. The device is no bigger than a mobile phone and can be easily hidden in any type of vehicle; from luxury motors to the humble van – even trailers can be protected.

How does it Work?

GPS (Global Positioning System) is a network of 24 satellites and numerous ground stations which are used in conjunction with GPS trackers and receivers to work out exactly where something is at any given time, using ‘triangulation’.

The GPS tracking system can be remotely accessed and allows you to pinpoint a vehicle’s exact location in real-time. It will even record the position of the vehicle at regular intervals, which almost guarantees its recovery in the unfortunate event of it going walkabouts!

There is additional great news if you are a fleet owner wanting to track the movements of your employees on day-to-day basis as you can use the system to check productivity, work out how long a particular route takes and even how many rest stops they take!

Food for thought

In April 2012 a car rental company in Los Angeles for GPS tracking to recover a Ferrari 458 Italia that had been rented out for a daily rate of $2,000. The rental owner grew suspicious when the tracking system showed no movement from the vehicle for several days and alerted the authorities, who tracked the vehicle to Hong Kong where is had been shipped by a member of a notorious car crime syndicate.

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