I understand how risky the roads can be particularly if your car is prone to breaking down at inopportune times. At some point every driver is left stranded on the side of the road. Whether it be a flat tire or an overheated motor a broken car can lead to a very risky situation when stuck in an intersection or on the side of a busy highway with petite visibility. These types of inopportune circumstances have been known to lead to fatal car accidents for adult drivers and can be even more risky for a young driver without the palpate or potential to handle the situation. No matter what the car question there are steps you can take as a parent to help your child be prepared for life's sticky situations.
Through instruction and a petite forethought you can help your teen be prepared for the roads often unpredictable behavior. In order to help forestall panic tip off your teen with all tasteless aspects of car maintenance and fix and have them put their skills to practice. If a teen has already changed a tire, or checked and refilled their motor oil they will have petite strangeness doing it when the road demands it.
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What to Teach: Reviewing tasteless car problems and their symptoms will help your child come to be more familiar with their car and observation its changes. These symptoms and tasteless problems should be written down and kept in the cars glove box for reference.
· Dealing with a Flat Tire
Being new to the road and with petite driving palpate teens may not know that they have a flat tire. Through palpate a driver can tell that the car makes unusual noises and behaves erratically when it has a flat tire. Naturally telling your teen how a car responds to a flat tire will make them more alert and can save you the hassle of rim and tire replacement.
Along with recognizing a flat tire a driver must also know how to take off the flat and replace it with the spare tire. Showing your teen all of the tools for replacing the tire and production them institution this a few times will enhance their safety and help ensure that you will not have to come to the rescue on a Friday night to turn a tire.
· Monitoring and Maintaining Tire Pressure
There are tasteless symptoms of low tire pressure that even adults fail to identify such as the car pulling to one side. Having an unbalanced car can be extremely risky particularly in adverse weather conditions.
An easy solution: equip your teen with a tire gauge as well as Whether a bottle of fix-a-flat or a transportable compressor and teach them how to use these. Also be sure to write down the permissible Pci for their car in your notebook top keep in the car.
· Checking and filing oil:
Maintaining the motor oil can be hectic depending on the vehicles health and age. Some older vehicles burn Through oil at an spectacular, rate production it extremely foremost to not only monitor the oil on a regular bases, but also to be prepared by retention a bottle of motor oil in the car. But even if your teen is driving a newer car it is foremost for them to know where the dipstick is placed and how to check and claim the motor oil as it is the blood of the car and imperative to the car functioning properly.
· Maintaining washer fluid
Windshield wiper fluid is foremost to maintaining permissible visibility particularly in the summer when bugs make a mess of a cars windows.
· Jump beginning a Car:
Everyone makes the mistake of draining their battery by leaving their lights on- for this guess your car should be qualified with jumper cables and your teen should be instructed on their use.
· Filing water:
Without water an motor is bound to overheat- particularly if your teen is driving an older car make sure they are aware of this and prepared with extra water in the trunk.
· tasteless Symptoms and Problems
Engine overheating: Heater will only blow cold air motor climatic characteristic gauge appealing beyond mid point Steam or smoke billowing from engine
Empty motor oil: motor oil is the blood of a vehicle- it keeps all parts in the motor lubricated so they may function- without it the motor parts will generate too much disagreement and cease to work. Because there are no pre-cursing symptoms it is foremost to claim the oil regularly.
Flat tire: Rough ride- feels clunky and off balance Car pulls to one side Can hear a clunk
Low tire: Car pulling toward one side strangeness retention the car right on the road
Failing breaks: Breaks will squeak an extreme whole Feel like you are pushing very hard on the breaks and hardly stopping
Safety Tips: Car problems are very risky especially on busy roads or while times of poor visibility (night time, rain or snow). Here are some tips to help keep your teen safe while fixing the car or waiting for help.
· take off the car as far from the road as possible · Use urgency flares and blinkers to warn other drivers · Place flares on non-flammable surfaces- not grassy areas that may catch fire · Be cautious of those trying to help you- don't get in a strangers car · Call for help
Preparation:
· urgency Kit- An urgency kit should be prepared ahead of time and kept in the glove box of the car. This will make it easier for your teen to remember what is essential in case of an urgency as it is easy to forget foremost steps when in stressful situations.
Camera
-To take pictures of the damage
Personal info sheet
-Prepare pre-done sheets with your name, phone number, address and assurance information
Paper pad and pen
-In the tablet have a written sheet with the data that your teen must fetch in a collision...
Name, address, phone whole car make, model and color License plate whole assurance information
Emergency Kit- an urgency kit should be kept in the car at all times this kit should include:
Jumper cables
Roadside flares
Two quarts of oil
Antifreeze
First aid kit
Flashlight and extra batteries
Flat head screwdrivers
Phillips head screwdrivers
Pliers
Adjustable wrench
Tire inflator (such as a Fix-A-Flat)
Tire pressure gauge
Rags
Duct tape
Washer Fluid
Pocketknife
Ice scraper
Granola or vigor bars
Bottled water
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