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How to Start a Car Properly

Knowing the different ways of starting a car will allow us to protect it from faults and mechanical failures in the future, thus extending its life.

The rise of private transport and basically the car, especially during holiday periods is necessary to know how to start a vehicle correctly. Depending on how you start the vehicle to save fuel and protect the engine against some faults.

Benefits of a smart start

Depending on how you start driving and how to run the first few seconds of motion of the vehicle, it will affect more or less fuel consumption and therefore energy saving, economically and ecologically.

Similarly, starting a car properly and slowly will help protect many of the mechanical parts of the vehicle together.

How to start a car properly

Starting a car properly is easy. Determine whether the vehicle is gasoline or diesel and if they are automatic or manual transmission.

The first thing you should do after you put the keys in place is to ensure that all electrical equipment is switched off, ie lights, radio and air conditioning to prevent the ignition overvoltage that can damage the components or the worst, melt the fuse.

With the car in idle state (ie on but not running) may re-connect the electrical components. If the car is diesel must wait one minute before starting, if the vehicle is gasoline can start up immediately. In both cases the beginning of the trip takes place slowly and without great accelerations since the car, even trust could be damaged.

With all this information and with a bit of good will to start the car will extend the life of our cars and our economy will improve notably.

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