The Year-End Maintenance Checklist

An annual reckoning beats twelve small panics

Once a year, look at the whole car at once: every fluid, every tire including the spare, pads, belts, hoses, battery, lights, wipers. Log the mileage and what is coming due next year — timing belt? brake fluid? Then fix the one thing you have been ignoring since spring. Every December we meet that deferred item, grown up into a bigger invoice.

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