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- The rainy season sometimes becomes annoying for motorists. Not just a dirty body, bulk water from the sky increases the risk of an accident. But do not worry beforehand. When coupled with solid preparation and precise driving style, driving in the rain can also stay safe. Follow these tips from the Garda Auto Racing Team below.

Before driving
Make sure the wiper condition.
Rubber wipers can become stiff and bumpy because not replaced the old. The condition was caused strokes in a glass becomes imperfect and even interfere with vision. If it were so, immediately replace with new rubber car specifications.

Fill your glass washer water
Before driving, make sure the water washer wiper is fully charged. Mix with a special liquid glass washer to help remove fat in the glass. Make sure the driving motor is also active and can be sprayed water into the glass.

Note the condition of the tires
When the rain, the tires will work flow of water to remove the side so that no symptoms of a car floating in the water aquaplanning alias. Therefore, make sure the flowers are still good tires, has a thickness of at least 50% of the new. Wind pressure and gentlemen, do not exceed the recommended standards can make less traction.

Check for leaks
In particular car owners over the age of 10 years, occasionally try to wash your car in an automatic washing machine. That way you can see whether there is a leak in the gap and car body glass. If yes, immediately fix so you do not get soaked when it rains heavily.

Cooling System
Make sure the cooling system (air conditioning) work normally. Because, until the work is not going to interfere with the view from the glass fogged.

Check your insurance policy
Make sure your vehicle has been protected by a guarantee damage (insurance) due to flooding. Because, some of us do not know whether the vehicle has been protected by the expansion of flood insurance or not.

While driving
Vigilance must be improved with the rain. In addition to reduced visibility, the road is also far more slippery than usual. Not to mention, the eye becomes tired. Here are some tips to minimize the risk of accidents when it rains.

Add a safe distance
If normally a dry time we have to keep a distance of 2 seconds into the front car, while rain increased to 3 seconds. How to calculate, gunamkan 1001 … 1001 … 1003 as normal, when the car reached the front of a sign on the road, such as electricity poles. If before it reaches the ’1003 ‘your car is up to the mark, meaning too close and had to adjust the distance again. This safe distance is very important, because when wet braking distances become much longer even though the car was even equipped with ABS.

Avoid sudden maneuvers
Sudden maneuvers include acceleration, braking and turning, should be avoided. On slippery roads, it is easy to maneuver the car out of control. Control the car is more subtle than usual.

Turn on the lights, not Hazard
Turning on the hazard when the rain is a big mistake. Hazard made the driver’s eyes in the back we quickly tired because blinking light. In addition, Hazard makes us unable to activate the lights when going to move sein lines, also resulted in sensitivity to the driver behind the brake lights on our cars to be reduced. Risk was hit from behind even bigger. When very heavy rain, light fog lights or headlights normal. This alone is enough.

Avoid the right lane on the freeway
Since the contour slightly convex highway, then driving in the right lane to make you hit a puddle vulnerable. This can make a car lost control. In addition, when in the right lane, you are easily exposed to splashes of water from the point across, and it will greatly interfere with the visibility.

Be careful tire lock
If we are forced to brake suddenly and the car was equipped with ABS, watch out for symptoms of tire lock. Once the tire was locked, reduce slightly until the wheel brakes stamping turning back. When the tire lock, the car can not be controlled with the steering wheel and more long-distance pengeremannya.

Do through flood
When we drove in the rain and met with a puddle of water or better to avoid flooding and to find a safe place.

For car owners, if there is no intention for a walk, clean the wheels yuk. Body may kinclong, but if the fourth condition dull rim, making the vehicle look less than perfect. And do not regard lightly clean or take care of him. Moreover, the chrome-covered, if done carelessly can be peeled.

Here, the process steps.
1. If the new car down the road, do not immediately drenched with water. Because the wheel is still warm, easy to lead when exposed to water mold. Wait until a normal temperature.

2. Make sure the inside is clean sepatbor. If not, the dirt that will stick smeared ari.

3. Wash uses a special shampoo or liquid alloy. Which was coated special chrome, use a special cleaning fluid chrome wheels. If not, the chrome will fade or peel.

4. When washing, to reach the hard use a brush or toothbrush.

5. When you are clean, dry with a cloth or chamois shammy material.

6. If there is dirt, such as asphalt, remove the besin or kerosene. “After that, just use white polishing compound, the kind that most soft and will damage the finishing enggap wheel,” explained Rudy from Auto Trend, Kebon Jeruk, West Jakarta.

7. Final touch, polish with wax. According to Daniel Saputra, Product & Car Care Consultant from Meguier’s, kind of wax vary depending on the type of alloy materials (finishing paint, chrome, and aluminum). So, live call this type of finishing of the rim.

Aki is one vital component, both in the car or motorcycle. If they fuss, the vehicle engine is turned on so hard. The reason, simple lack of attention and care.

Type of marketed there, especially for cars, there are dry and wet batteries. If dry, there should be no additional battery and the price of water is more expensive than the wet type (must add battery water).

If the latter makes the water evaporate and the battery faster because the body was swollen in the heat. Now, the battery type is given a layer of wet hot silencer. “Having given the hot layer, the problem of all is lost,” said Hadi from Fast, battery outlets in Kelapa Gading.

In fact, like Thunder from Massiv battery fully equipped double cover on the lid and is designed for the tropical air. With this system, ua or gases arising from the evaporation of water batteries, not directly out.

Whatever the technology, the battery still need attention and care. Like the below if you already do?

1.Kalau replace batteries, adjust the size of a standard ampere. “If you want to raise a battery of standard sizes,” advised Hadi. Except when the car was loaded with audio devices.

2. Match your battery with a standard height. Not recommended to replace with a higher body, very dangerous. When closing the hood, fear polar akia (+) and (-) can cause a spark.

3.Kalau opened aki, dahulukan polar (-) and (+). Conversely, when installed, dahulukan poles (+) new (-). The goal, said Hadi order to avoid misunderstanding.

4. Perform battery checks to always be in between the upper and lower levels. If you are under the upper Soak can cause rapid and the cells become damaged if to dry. Charging is done when msin still cold (early morning)

Very annoying when the motor suddenly “cough-cough” or the sound of the exhaust sound “shoot-shoot” when you’re driving. Such symptoms make the motor speed to be not smooth aka haltingly.

Best solution quickly and safely, quickly bring the motor to the garage. Nothing wrong too, if you need to know the culprit that cause you already know or do not lie when he brought the bike to the garage. “There are some things that cause arising from the exhaust sound of the explosion,” said engineering division Rusiyanto of PT Yamaha Motor Kencana Indonesia (YMKI).

Cuk or “choke”
If you forget to close the choke when the engine in the morning, well, as the road, combustion occurs due to imperfect gas mixture that is too much. “If this condition is left, it will result in plugs of age. In addition, spark plugs because it tends to die quickly soaked with gasoline,” beber Abdul Rohim, Honda dealership mechanic Vehicle Makmur Sejati.

Busi
These components can cause a crash due to the emergence of component condition is going to die. Typically, according to Abdul Rohim, it happened because the spark plug electrodes are too wet or more crust. If used on, the symptoms such as damage to the components of clean air supply. As a result, mixtures of air and fuel in the engine so imperfectly.

Carburetors
Now this does not apply a bit of motorcycle carburetor vacuum or well-known model called constanly velocity (VC). Skep driven by relying on rubber vacuum. So, do not let the rubber is worn. When to wear, then the process was not perfect vacuum. This is caused when the motor brebet machine dibetot.

Air Supply
Sound of the explosion could also arise because there is damage to the supplier of clean air into the engine. Symptoms, unpleasant sound arose when the motor accelerates and the gas filled closed. Hence, when the machine turns off, munculah blast. “So, make sure AIS (secondary water system) is functioning perfectly,” Rustiyanto advice.

The rain became enemy number one for motorcycle riders. However, do not mean that all activities should be stopped because of the heavy water spray from the sky. For the bikers, let’s make this annoying thing was fun. In fact, the arrival of rain could be greeted with a smile.

There are three important parts of interest if you do still want to glide along with the rain. Whatever it?

First, our own bodies. Put on a raincoat. In addition to protecting the body from the wet, coat also protects us from accidents. Thus, to facilitate the movement of the body, arms, and legs, wear a raincoat separate models. Meanwhile, the striking colors make it easier for other road users can see you clearly. “When the rain, reduced visibility,” said Eko Reksodipuro, safety riding instructor.

Do not use a poncho-shaped coat. In addition to flying and would disrupt the balance, poncho jacket can also grab another vehicle. In addition, also bring a spare shoes. Do not pack shoes that you wear a plastic bag because of slippery.

Second, the motor. Machines need re-tuning to fit the water, humidity, and cold temperatures. Avoid opening the carburetor to filter box does not infiltrate water into fuel. It was, said Sartogu Munthe (Munthe Repair Motor Head), making the water in the air drawn into the engine.

Then, look at areas prone machines infiltrated water, especially the electrical lines. During this rainy season, pay attention to the profile (flower) tires. Dodiyanto of PT Gajah Tunggal suggest, for those who already use small tires (drag) to quickly replace the standard tires. “At this season, grabbed the tire to the asphalt should be broad, but not too wide, too.”

He also called for developing the driver also noticed the tires. Select the profile is still nice to break up the puddle of water, especially the development of more coakan or groove. Do not forget also the pressure of the wind.

Third, the environment. This is the most important thing to note other road users. Sometimes, motorists often act arbitrarily, like the shade under a bridge overpass or underpass so that narrows the road. Also, there is also a parking on the sidewalk. It’s certainly troubling pedestrians. Should not be done. We recommend that, if forced to take shelter, in parallel to the motor park in the back of another motorcycle.