DO AND DO NOT.

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1788, 29 July 1926, Page 6

DO AND DO NOT.

SOME OLD TRUTHS FOR MOTORISTS. WHICH MAY BEi NEW TO 1 A NOVICE. Don’t pull up just round a bad corner unless you can take the car out of the way off the road. Don’t fry to talk to the people behind until you are certain that you can drive without looking. Keep a strict look-out and try to intercept (the intentions of other traffic and pedestrians before they actually make a move. It is often possible to know that a car is going to turn to one side or the other, even if the driver does not signal. •Don’t pass other cars and then turn ■round and grin. They may be better drivers' and their cars may be faster. Drive the car as though it were fragile. Jerky starts and stops betray the novice.

Don’t take a right-hand curve in the right-hand gutter—you may meet somebody! If an unusual noise develops suspect some trouble and investigate—it may be the wheel coming off. ■Don’t try to climb a'll the steepest hills on top gear with a small engine. The car will go much better on second, but don’t change doAvn without double clutching.

The coachwork of a car should be kept in order just as much as machinery. Conversely, the machinery is quite as important as the coachAvork. Some people spend too much on polishing liquid and too tittle on oil. Find out the distance in which the car can be stopped before, not after, the emergency occurs. A miscalculation! may cost you a lot of money. Don’t drive for a long time Avith the air strangler closed, and then wonde r Avhy the engine will not pull. Learn hoAV to handle a skid in your own time and not in an emergency. Don’t overload the car. The body will suffer certainly, the Chassis probably. The manufacturer did not intend a four or fivie-s eater to carry » six.