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To clean the roof of the mini van from fallen leaves or dirt, it is necessary to build some scaffolds, because from the ground you can’t reach the right place. However, you can simplify the task, and make a suspended "step". This is a very simple device - it can come in handy for someone. The first step is to cut off two pieces of a plate about 10-12 mm thick and 30 cm long.

In this review we will tell and show how to make a home-made rolling pneumatic jack on the basis of a hydraulic jack with a lifting capacity of 12 tons. The design is intended for quick and easy lifting of cars, and not only. According to the author, the main advantage of this home-made design is that you do not need to put extra effort.

When repairing their car with their own hands, many are faced with moments when it is not possible to solve the problem with simple keys and devices. The help of professionals or the availability of special tools is required. But there is another way - to create a special device on your own. Repair of car racks sometimes turns into an impossible task.

It is possible to repair a plastic bumper of a car without a mesh using plastic. Moreover, the restored bumper will be stronger than the new due to the gain. The main secret to the success of garage repairs: adherence to soldering technology, as well as the correct selection of materials. It should be noted that the soldering technology, which is used to repair the bumper, is very universal - it can be used to restore any plastic parts, including some other elements of the car: the case for the rear-view mirrors and fenders.

Snow chains are often used when driving on the road (sometimes even in winter if there is no studding). However, there is a more budget option - “shoes” from an old tire. The tire size for such a device needs to be selected individually, there is no universal size. However, you can use a tire of the same diameter as the wheel itself.

A parking system is a very useful thing for a modern motorist. This simple electronic device will help the driver when parking and turning. A special sensor installed on the dashboard will sound an alarm in time and show the remaining distance to the obstacle. A simple Chinese-made system will prevent unwanted damage to the bumper or car body when parking the car and increase the accuracy of maneuvering.

In this review, we will talk about one to the ugliness of a very simple but useful thing that is useful in every passenger car (especially new). She presents a metal sheet, which is curved in a special way, repeating the bends of the floor in the cabin near the driver's seat. Thickness is approximately 1 mm. The sheet is primed and varnished.

Car owners are faced with such an unpleasant situation when the wheel of the car is constantly lowering. Often this is due to the formation of cracks in the nipple. The solution to the problem is simple - change the old valve to a new one. And for this, you do not need to lift the car on a jack, remove the wheel, and then put it back and balance.

In anticipation of the first frosts, many experienced drivers take preventive measures to prevent battery failure. Because batteries, like other elements of a car, are in a stressed state at minus temperatures. If you do not know what and how to do with the battery, then read this article to the end.

Your four-legged baby has grown large and beautiful, but there wasn’t a special cage for transportation under its size in stores? Or is the cage shape not suitable for your car? It may be that the cage is there, but it is not strong enough to remain intact after the games of a Rottweiler puppy or mastiff.

If the paintwork on the car body is damaged to the ground or metal, then there are only two ways to get rid of a deep scratch: repainting or burying. In this article, we will consider the second method in more detail. It should be noted right away that you should not expect an ideal result in this case, but you can still hide and mask a deep scratch.

Car owners often face the need to replace steering traction. However, after replacement, in most cases, you have to do the collapse - toe-in. How to replace without convergence? There is one easy way. To do this, take the caliper, stretch it to the maximum and fix it. What will be the size does not matter.

To wash the glass of a car headlight at home (for example, in the kitchen), an ordinary faucet will not work - here you need a special faucet with a built-in filter that eliminates any small abrasive particles from the water pipe getting on the headlight. Otherwise, you risk spoiling the glass itself.

If you prefer to wash your “horse” yourself (near the garage or at home), then try in practice the safest - non-contact method of washing a car, which is performed using a foam generator. Moreover, it is not necessary to spend money on the purchase of an expensive device. The simplest foam generator for washing a car can be made with your own hands from an old fire extinguisher.

With the advent of winter, drivers urgently begin to “change shoes” from summer tires to winter tires. Someone uses the services of tire fitting, others prefer to change the wheels on their own. If you “change shoes” on your own in a garage, you will need a simple tool for quick wheel changes.

As practice shows, the stabilizer bar more often than the rest of the working elements of the suspension of the car fail. When this happens, they usually go straight to the car shop and just buy a new rack, because such parts are inexpensive. But there is also an alternative that will come in handy in situations where there is no money, but you need to go.

The handbrake is a handbrake, and the emphasis (shoe) under the wheel will never be superfluous. In stores today you can easily buy inexpensive plastic shoes for 150-300 rubles. But why even spend money on them when a reliable emphasis on the wheel of a car can be made with your own hands from improvised materials? Moreover, a home-made emphasis with metal spikes will last much longer than Chinese plastic, and more reliable (especially in the winter, when there is ice on the roads).

Mighty things often come across at the metal reception, which after a small restoration can be used further for their intended purpose. For example, despite the considerable age, the old Soviet jack is quite realistic to restore. We all know that in Soviet times everything was done in good faith, therefore, after restoration, the car jack will be able to give odds to many of its modern "brothers."

Using a home-made ignition spark tester for a car engine, you can determine a malfunction in the ignition system. To make this device you will need a regular 10 ml medical syringe, as well as a screw with an M4 nut and a piece of copper wire. On the one hand, such express diagnostics at home will allow you to check the operation of the ignition module and the integrity of the spark plug wire.

For many car owners, replacing a leaking camshaft seal is associated with a rather tedious procedure that is time consuming. However, this element can be replaced much faster than it seems - with minimal disassembly of the car engine. To get the camshaft oil seal, it is not necessary to remove the valve cover.