If you watch any kind of comercial TV in the UK you can’t have missed the intensive advertising campaign from organisations wanting to change peoples lives by training them to be a driving instructor. The message is that you can earn up to £30k a year with fully maintained car working the hours you want to suit your lifestyle.
This is all happening at a time when most people feel their current job is insecure and redundancies seem to be an everyday occurance. Rather than selling the process of becoming a driving instructor the adverts are very much aimed at selling the dream, of a good wage, modern car and flexible working hours, in fact it all seems too easy.
Nothing is mentioned about the prior research to who are the competition in the area, how much will it cost to market the new business and the reality of much they will really earn? With competition bringing driving lessons down to £10 a lesson in certain areas for block bookings, you can’t understand how any driving instructor can make his £30K and still have the flexibility of working their own hours. Anyway driving instructor training looks like it will be very popular and if the amount of drivers increase, then it may be the best decision for some.
If you intend to any major engine work on your car, one of the first things you will need to do is drain the car’s radiator. Not to mention you may want to cleans the cooling system of you car from time to time. Here is a video that describes how to do this relatively simple job, providing the car is cool of course, so saftey is a main issue.
OK to you and me the transmission is the gearbox, either manual or automatic. just like the engine it needs lubrication fluid to keep it right and trouble free. This is an American video but shows you how easy it to check your transmission fluid, expecially on front wheeled drive vehciles, where the gearbox is under the bonnet with the engine.
You can do this job in minutes and to be honest most gearboxes can outlive the car, so dont expect to find much wrong.
Of course the first post was only part 1 so we have now added part 2 and part 3 on how to change your suspension struts on your car. May be important to know how to do all the job as we wudn’t want your car to only have 3 wheels and laid up for some time.
The final part pf fitting struts on this car, watch how it ends
If your car is getting on in mileage then there is going to come a time when the either the shockers, struts or even both need replacing. Many wait until the MOT test before doing any replacements, but you can normally notice that they need replacing when the car becomes very hard over bumps, or it leans to one side or down.
For many cars, this is not a hard job and can be done by most DIY savvy guys, although compressing the unit can take a bit of force and you need to be careful with the brake lines. Here is part one of another DIY video on how to change struts or shocks on your car.