Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-04
No. d57-Care I'm Car Care.

"You certainly do take good care
the nickeled radiator shell a final rub,
but aren't you a little careless about
it?"
Smith was a bit grieved to think
that any one could question his work.
Hadn't he spent the greater part of
the morning cleaning, polishing and
tinkering? Hadn't he gone at the
work with the idea of making thor
ough job of it? Hadn't he simply
torn the car inside out to put it back
into AL shape?
Yes, he had done all of this, and
more. But that was the pity Of it.
You do not use enough care in
caring for your car" / summed up
the situation. You are helping the
car in one way and injuring it In an
other Why don't you try to make
your care all care?
i've watched you working around
the body of the car. If you've opened
and slammed shut the doors once
you've done it SO times. That's equiv
alent to about 10 rides SO far as door
wear goes Why don't you open all
the doors when you start to work on
the body and leave them open until
y
Wrong Way to Dust Car.
"One of the things that surprised
me was the way you busted off the
outside of the car while the windows
were open. The back of the car was
thick with red dust, and as you busted
much of this blew into the inside of
the car. where it certainly couldn't
be of any material help to the up
holStery.
Il don't mean to criticize, but /
think a great many of your efforts are
misdirected. You do not do things in
the proper order. You dust the car
all over and then discover that the
wheels are dirty. You start to clean
them, and by the time you finish
shaking up the dust around thewheels
and chassis you might as well clean
the body of the car again. Only this
morning l saw you soil the mat In
the rear of the car when you stepped
into 1t to brush a speck of dirt off
seat cushion.
Around the engine you are partic-
ularly careless in trying to be careful.
l don't know how many times you
have lifted up the sides of the hood.
1t seems to me that you could have
completed one side of the engine at
to the other so often. Besides, there
are many things you can reach
through one side while the hood is
up instead of putting down that side
and lifting up the other"
Time for Best Results.
Smith at that moment was reaching
into the pocket of a door for clean
cloth and in doing SO got some grease
from his hands on the upholstery.
AS he reached for the bottle of clean
ing fluid my criticism began to take
effect.
Another important angle to this
business of caring for a car Is to do
the right thing at the right time" I
went on. by giving more attention
to this you can get better results from
your servicing of the car without
spending so much time at 1t. I often
have seen you adding water to the
battery just as you were putting the
car away for the night. and I remem-
Der one morning when you found it
necessary to rip up the seat cushion
grope for the hand crank, climb over
the front bumper and scratch up the
front little in cranking the engine.
You didn't realize that after adding
water to a battery the car should be
driven few miles if battery energy
is to be brought back to normal,
otherwise you would have attended to
this matter in the morning.
Many car owners never think to
note the oil level when raising the
hood to make a slight carburetor ad-
justment or to inspect the wiring, yet
just one more glance, at a time when
the hood is up, saves raising it again.
In my own experience I have found
that there is more sense in buying.
10 gallons of gasoline at a time than
five. because every time you stop at
filling station, if for no other reason
than that, there is danger of having
the attendant spill gas over the body
and of losing the cap of the tank"
Inefficient Care of Car.
Just at this point Smith gave an
other excellent demonstration of the
inefficiency of his method of caring
for the car. After spending so much
time on the radiator he proceeded to
fill 1t up with water, splitting quite a
little all over the brightly polished
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