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Show Your Car Ready For Cold? With winter upon us your car will, on occasion, be outside out-side all night in sub-zero weather. YOU'LL slip behind the i wheel of the car, snap on the seat belt and turn the key. Almost assuredly, it will , start. ..just as it did a few months ago when it was in the parking lot all day in egg-frying egg-frying temperatures. SURPRISING? Not at all, but perhaps it should be because your car-if typical-receives much less care than it deserves. Recommended service intervals inter-vals too often are ignored by many motorists, the same people who would never think of letting a week go by without vacuuming all the carpeting in the house. THE automobile is truly an amazing machine, says the Automotive Information Council. Not only is it expected expect-ed to function under such a wide range of weather conditions, condi-tions, but it is subjected to road salt, chuckholes, careless and hard driving and indifferent maintenance. "I can't think of another product that has to do so , much under so many adverse conditions," said Ronald H. j Weiner, president of the Au- j tomotive Information Coun- ' cil. THE early automobiles were toys for the rich and, as such, were used only for special occasions and therefore were able to be coddled. Routine maintenance had to be performed per-formed after each run. Today, however, the automobile au-tomobile is an integral part of our way of life to work, to the store, the Scout meetings, basketball practice. Start and i stop, start and stop, with all j. those functions taken for granted. WE have come to rely on the proper functioning of an automobile to the point where we never make a time-allowance time-allowance in case the car should fail to go," said the AIC executive. "We just expect it to start up and move out, and fortunately, for-tunately, that's what happens almost every time. But the isolated instance causes the owner to forget the many hundreds or thousands of times the car started without a problem. And chances are that any problem resulted from neglect." A simple tune-up, adding water to the battery, cleaning the battery terminals, a lubrication, using a carburetor carbure-tor cleaner: All of these minor items can go a long way in keeping a reliable product even more reliable. |