Your car’s manufacturer might emphasize preventative maintenance a lot in the owner’s manual, and that’s for good reason. You really do want to adhere to preventative maintenance schedules as much as you possibly can. It’s better for your car and it’s better for your wallet. SDS Automotive has this advice, too.
Routine Services Have a Routine for a Reason
It can be frustrating to keep having some services performed over and over again on your car. But there’s a reason for that. Those services are routine in the same way that some other tasks are routine. You don’t wash your hands once and expect that they’ll stay clean forever. You have to wash them periodically to remove dirt and to remove germs, even if you just washed them earlier in the day. The same theory holds true with things like tire rotations, wheel alignments, and oil changes. These aren’t things that get done once and then never have to be done again.
You Avoid Unexpected Failures
Something else that preventative maintenance is helpful with is finding things that aren’t functioning properly. If there’s a leak or some other problem with your car’s cooling system, it’s way better to find that out during preventative maintenance than it is because your car starts overheating. Finding problems when they’re small means that it’s a lot easier to fix those problems. And in some cases, you can even ensure that you don’t have problems at all simply because you’ve done the maintenance.
Emergencies Are Even Worse
Emergencies can happen no matter what, even if you’ve done all the right things. But the odds that you’ll experience some sort of emergency failure in your car’s engine or transmission are greatly reduced if you’ve been engaging in preventative maintenance all along. Emergencies are typically expensive, both in terms of time and in terms of money. Nobody really has time for that, so it’s better to do all that you can to make sure that emergencies are as rare as they can possibly be.
If you’ve found out the hard way that emergency repairs are no fun, we totally understand how frustrating that can be. Give us a call at SDS Automotive in Sacramento, CA today and we can help you to get back on a solid preventative maintenance schedule. We’ll help you to book services together to minimize the time you take out of your schedule and we’ll make everything as painless as possible.