Tip of the month - Car Care

When not driving your car for more than a week

If you are not going to use your car for a week or so, you can follow these simple tips to keep your car looking and feeling new.

- Avoid using car covers unless your car is in shelter. These covers can trap moisture underneath which might result in wear and tear on the paint especially when there are changes in weather.

- To avoid nasty odours from forming, you can leave a moisture-absorbing device inside your car, most commonly used in household wardrobes.

- Do not get someone to start your car every day and let it idle for a few minutes. Doing this might causes water build-up and premature corrosion in the exhaust system. If you are going away for a long time, if possible, get a friend to drive your car for half an hour every fortnight or so.

- Finally, do not disconnect the battery as this resets the car’s electronic control unit, if your car has one. Today most of the cars have such units. This unit stores vital information about the car’s operating state. All this data will be lost if the battery is disconnected for more than a few minutes.