Auto maintenance is one of the things that often eat deep into your budget. It takes some strategy to take some auto expenses off your income. It’s not everything damages on your car that should go through a professional. There are issues that you can fix yourself.

In this post, we shall give you some of the Do-It-Yourself car repair tips. Setting up auto issues with a professional repairman differs from car to car so you may have to follow the manufacturer’s manual. The cost range for each also repair differs.

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1 Replacing Old Windshield Wipers Blades

2 Replacing Spark Plugs

3 Changing Oil and Oil Filter

4 Replacing Old Air Filter

5 Wrap

Replacing Old Windshield Wipers Blades

Setting up wiper blades may not cost anything less than $10 if you have to engage the service of a pro. Use these three basic steps to fix the wiper blade of your car:

Smartly remove the damaged blades by lifting them up in the way you often wash the blades.
In case there’s a tab – which you find in many car models – push it to gain access to the blades.
Tightly and securely attach the new wiper blades but be careful not to bend or break the wiper arms or cause a scratch on the windshield.

Replacing Spark Plugs

Typically, car spark plugs are replaced after every 30,000 miles but do well to check your manufacturers’ guide: Depending on the number of the car cylinders, spark plugs can be four, six, or eight.

Locate the spark plugs around the thick elastic wires
Unfasten the wires one after the other
Use the spark plug socket and extension to remove the plug, but maintain the order in which the plugs are mounted
Install the new spark plugs using the screw to tighten them and a wrench to ensure a comfy fit

Attach the spark plug wire back to its place

Changing Oil and Oil Filter

Jack up your car when the engine is cool and locate the engine oil pan
Drain all oil inside the drain plug and replace the drain plug
Remove the old oil filter with your wrench
Add some motor oil to the rubber gasket of your new oil filter
Fill the new oil filter to about two-third and screw it back, tighten it firmly
Fill the new oil filter while checking with a dip-stick to know the level

Replacing Old Air Filter

After every 12,000 miles, you can replace your car air filter. That again depends on the manual. Within ten minutes or so, you should be done with replacing your air filter.

Locate the air filter inside the black rectangle-shaped box after popping the car’s hood
Open the housing and note how the filter is fitted
Replace the old with the new air filter
Close the metal clips

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There are other important issues you can save a lot of bucks by going it yourself way, including battery maintenance, changing the brake pads, radiator flush, fuel filter replacement, and so on. It’s important you follow the owner’s manual at every sage so you don’t end up being pound foolish and penny-wise.