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SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1932.
CAR!
BE PROUD OF YOUR
Only Proper Care will Make It Worthy of Pride.
By Sir Malcolm Campbell
(in The Daily Mail)
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falling off in performance, as many motorista know to The moment these are manifested, hair cost. I do not want it have the job put in hand without hought that I am advising the Jolay..
motorlat only to change his off Cars with comparatively low com-when the parladkal "decoking" rersion engines are not as prone takes place. I am very strongly to rapid carbonisation na the high-of opinion that oil should be compression type posuifar to the changed every two thousand miles. Many people may regard this
on
car. Or, to speak more reetly, the formation of car |
deposit on the pistons and in ho combustion chambora of the irst type of motor does not make taelf known as soon as in the
thigh-compression engine.
A Job that Pays for Doing.
the users of defects that theslote overhaul oling the compression to the point
a counsel of extravaganco, but "the end It is the truest conomy.
to
THERE are very many car look upon. And, really, it is al Towners who are entirely easy to keep the car right if only
Engines vary very greatly lacking in the pride of possession things are done immediately ta
consumption. Some are con- which is the hallmark of the mood becomen manifest, The
tent with a consumption of a motorist, the quality which little Jobs that inevitably fall to
gallon every two thousand miles distinguishes him from the mere be done must not be put of unt the low-compression engine there and I have owned quite small cars The explanation is simple. Inir se. Others positively drink of), ser of a motor-car.
there is such an accumulation of is You can divide
more room for the carbon which used consistently a gallon have got out o teposit to build up before increas of oil every five hundred milea, motor-cars into two clasica. One hand and a class, which is composed of those the car is necessary.
which the fuel mixture is com The trito old adage that a stitch pressed to detonation point, with regard these ultra-economical cara describe as motorists, takes a
It may Acem paradoxical, but I keen interest in its cars, which are in time saves nine applies to always to be recognised by their nothing with greater force than consequent "pinking" and lowered hoing a distinct danger well-groomed outward appearance it dues to the motor-car.
performance.
themselves, especially when they and their mechanical perfection
re in the handa of owners It is obvious, therefore, that if Apart from every other conal-
to- inwardly.
deration, this doing of little you own a sports model car you cined to be careless. It is not for this class that jobs of maintenance
will have to undertake decarboni- Intend this article, though even economy, and to carry out con- car of the "family" type. The represents sation more often than if you own they, I trust, may be able to sistently the advice to do it now point is, whatever the car, decar extract from it a tip or two on will RAVA a considerable amount banising is a job that pays for the maintenance of a car in money.
There is a type stato of maximum efficiency.
or
before doing
it is demonstrably car-owner The other class consists of those, who gives me a creepy feeling NECORARTY.
I hear him
Without laying down any rule,, who regard the motor-ear purely whenever
and his
I should They are fellows discuss motor-cars. They
Buy that as a utility vehicle.
the average content if their ears run reason-vie with each other in boasting engine of the sports type ably well and take them out and of the extraordinary milenges should should undergo the home without mechanical break-they have achieved "without ever down.
opening the teal-box, old chap."
There's No Such Thing!
A Car is like a Living Thing.
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operation vary two thousand miles, and the other certainly every five thousand at least- preferably every four thousand.
guide, because, apart. from getting rid of the carbon deposit, the valves and their geating will require attention and regrinding.
from time to time, but in the bulk What too often happens is that mall quantities of oil are added it is the same old oil which is being asked to do the job of abricating the whole engine.
(To be Continued.).
Battery Neglect
Neglect will mean that the valve Costs YOU
These are the people who take This one has done 15,000 miles I lay this down as a rough no account of a damaged mud-without putting a spanner on a guard or two, and to whoni aput. The next one goes a bit Tattle of loose parts matters not better and has done 20,000 miles at all. I do not profess to under-without decarbonisting his engine atand the mentality of those who—and it is running just as well as offend most in this direction. ever it did! Yet another has not faces and seatinga will probably
To me a
motor-car is almost a found it necessary to change the become badly burnt and pitted. living, sentient thing which should jo in the sump for something and what should be an easy job: be treated with the care and con-prodigious in the way of mileage in the home garage will become sideration that one would extend-yet the car runs better than one for the workshop, with con- to a valuable horse. For, equally when it was new!
sequent expense, Tappet clear- with the horse, the car representa The answer is something like ancon will need chocking and initally
considerable capital that of the farmer who, seeing a adjustment, which can be done outlay and, if it is to render the giraffe for the first time, said: while the cylinder head is off for service
that is rightly to be "There ain't no sich animal." decarbonising. expected, it must be fed, groomed. Cars don't run better nor as well
Another point that should be watered, and looked after general-under such treatment. They checked while this is being done ly as every thoroughbred needs very definitely run a lot worse. la the condition of the valvo and deserves.
you own a big car, with a lot guides, in the case of engines with Every real motorist takes a of reserve power, you may think side valves. Very often a bad pride in his car. It does not mat-it runs as well as it did. but have falling off in verformance can be ter whether the car cost £3,000 or
troubled to you
check petrol traced to worn valve-guides,
which £150. It is possible, whatever its mileage? If you did, you would through
excessive typo or value. to be proud of find that it is running a lot worse amount of air finds ingress to the possessinir it, and to manifest that than it should. Moreover, it is motor, upsetting the carburation pride in the manner of keeping rapidly qualifying for a lone visit and thus causing a marked loss and maintaining it.
to its maker's works, with its of power. inevitable accompaniment of a b'g In the case of the modern on- bill for the consequent overhaul. gine, with its detachable cylinder;
An Object of Contempt
head, these jobs are by no means Should the car be of a smaller, was it when we had to remove a lengthy operations. Far different lese powerful type, the results of solid cylinder block and, when neglect and misuse will be more decarbonising was finished, get it apparent a marked falling off in back into position after getting performance, with much conse-all the pistons neatly each into its quent vexation of spirit.
Owner That Gives Me
Creepy Feeling.
A badly kept car is an abomina- tion; a well-kept one a joy to
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What, to anyone with a "car Yet there was one compensation sense." can be worse than to be for the extra work this entailed. casily passed by a car of similar We did sometimes get a sight of make and nominal power, and to the rings and to check any slight feel that the other fellow has con-wear on gudgeon-pin and big-end tempt in his heart for the idle. hearings. However, thanks to careless owner who just let better lubrication systems and things go until the results cannot better lubricants, such complete be any longer ignored? I shoutnspection a seldom necessary simply hate myself if I could more than once in a season in the imagine myacl letting a car fal: case of the modern car. off through neglect.
Whenever the motor in opened It is a matter of elementary up for these little fobs, the sum motoring knowledge that engine should be drained and new. oil require periodical decarbonisation. ubatituted for the old. In this but the question of how often is onn
connexion I cannot stress ton
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