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Show SRONIC TROUBLE !fl ALL MACHINES Sane Make and Model Develops De-velops Peculiar Ailments When Not Given Care. (Ev ERWIX CRKKR, President Greer (.'clii;e of Autoniutive Kngineering. CtlicaRO). The sensible motor car owner is sat-Is!:e,l sat-Is!:e,l it his car gives a reasonable performance. per-formance. If the fan belt breaks lie puis on a new one. If a washer leaks in the rear axle and the aile begins to threw grease, he cleans out the j grease on the brake bands, puts in a now washer anil then tries driving I more in the center of the mail. Driv-! Driv-! log to the right continually tilts the j txle bousing to the right and works I the grease out a lot sooner than it would otherwise. And he doesn't howl about It, realizing that it was I his own fault for driving to the ex-i ex-i trcine right. I i Chronic Trouble of Cars- I , Every car has some sort of chronic ! trouble. Even the same make and model of car is capable of developing I varied troubles. It is common to hear a motorist say, "She always did that," "Or that never did work properly." And such comments are as readily made about the SS.000 machine as the .SIKH) one. But the big reason why corn-I corn-I plaints are confined to a certain class J of drivers is because the other class of I driver knows that a car needs constant j attention, and gives it. I 1 know a fellow who Is continually bewailing the fact that one of the ig-f ig-f nition wires was always dropping off a spark plug. Instead of Inserting c new fastener nt the end of the cable he chose to sit back and yell about It. Meanwhile the car runs on three or four cylinders, depending upon how effectually he swears. The car Is mechanically me-chanically perfect outside of this small defect and six cents would remedy that. But to hear him talk you'd think that the machine was a veritable wreck. Nothing Goes Wrong. I Invited this same chap to take a ride In my car, which Is an expensive make. "This Is. the sort of car for me 1" he exclaimed, as we glided down Michigan boulevard. "Nothing ever goes wrong with this make of car." But just then he beheld my chauffeur acting exactly the same as he had acted the day before. "Blast It!" the chauffeur exclaimed. "The horn is out of order!" There you are, folks. Half the automobile auto-mobile drivers are to blame not the machines. Give your machine reasonable reason-able attention and care. And always remember that the car owner who appears ap-pears to have a "regular car" is the fellow who, nine times out of ten, knows how to take care of it or has learned to be satisfied with what he has. |