5 skills every driver should know
Call yourself a skilled driver, here are 5 skills every driver should know before venturing out on the road.
Do you think yourself to be a skilled driver, but cannot even change a tyre. Here are 5 skills every driver should know regardless of how fast they can drive. These skills are important as they allow for you to not be stuck in sketchy situations.
We have gone in detail as to how to do these things in our other articles but this post will be strictly limited to explaining why that particular skill is important. Here are 5 skills that every driver should know.
How To Change A Tyre/Fix A Puncture
While changing a tyre is basic knowledge, a lot of people who actually drive cars don’t know how to change a tyre. This is because many of them depend on external help while changing a tyre but while driving, it is not possible to attain help all the time and one should know how to change the tyre.
Do Basic Maintenance
Basic maintenance like changing oil, figuring out blown out fuses, and change basic maintenance items like air filters, and oil filters is something that everyone should know. It goes a long way in diagnosing your vehicle when something goes wrong but also allows you to do basic maintenance in a pinch or when needed.
How To Fill Fuel In Your Vehicle
Living in India, we have not really experienced how to fill fuel in our own vehicles since there are always attendants present at fuel stops but this is a vital skill which is needed when you go outside of India where the concept of attendants at fuel stops is not really a thing. Its not that tough of a task either and one should definitely know how to operate the fuel pump.
Parallel Parking
This is something that requires a lot of practice and a lot of people are still not comfortable parallel parking even though they do drive daily on the streets. Many times, especially at places where street parking exists, parallel parking is your only choice. Hence, this is something that everyone should know.
Know How To Use All The Controls and Features Of The Car
It is a good idea to go through your user manual and learn how all the features of your vehicle works. If you are buying a new car, then the dealership will make you go through all the features and controls of the vehicle. It is necessary because sometimes your vehicle might have all the features but it might be not that easy to find and with new cars coming with more and more tech, a lot of the things are hidden in screen menus which might be a task to find while driving.