MOTORDOM

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 82, 28 June 1927, Page 10

MOTORDOM

After your car is painted examine headlight connections and clean metal contacts. Also see that the small vent hole in gasoline filler cap is not filled with paint. • • * The carburettor should have its regular seasonal overhaul. Working parts and screens should be examined to remove sediment and scale. This should be done by one that specialises on your particular make of car. * * * When side curtains are put away they should be dried and should have paper placed between them to prevent the celluloid becoming scratched. • * • Replace Spark Plugs. —Automotive engineers now generally, agree that it is equally essential to proper engine operation to install a complete new set of spark plugs every 10,000 miles as it is to change oil at regular intervals, and considerably less expensive. ‘•Dear Headlight.—Your article last week about jay-walking was good to see. I drive a new car on which the four-wheel brakes are in perfect condition, yet I needed all the brakes one day last week in Queen Street to prevent me running into a boy who whizzed past on a scooter. It’s high time something was done.” When stuck in mud do not spin the wheels of your car. Allow them to turn as slowly as possible. If you are without tyre chains wrap rope around the tyre with the end or knot on the outside. • * * Brakes that are apparently perfect in dry weather will skid on wet pavement because they are not properly equalised. * * * The French Government is encouraging greater use of old motors by reducing b y one-half all taxes on cars more than nine years old this year. Full taxes are very heavy, ranging from £3 to £45. * * * The British-built Guy motor-truck chassis are becoming known in out-of-the-way parts of the world. The factory has just received a repeat order for 99 from the Rio de Janeiro Tramways, Brazil. This follows an initial order for 28 about a year ago. * * * General Overhaul. —A dentist says that he had an absent-minded motorist in his chair the other day. ‘‘Will you take gas?” he asked. “Yeah,” replied the a-m patient, “and you’d better look at the oil, too”