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Introduction

This Chapter is made up in order to help the owner of the car Jeep Grand Cherokee to maintain your vehicle in a constant state of readiness for operation, and getting the most out of it (reliability, efficiency, safety).

Offered below the reader section is devoted to an analysis of each of the above listed in the schedule of routine maintenance of the car procedures. The reader can read the description of procedures, visual inspection, adjustment, replacement of components, and other useful things. The above illustration with the views of the engine compartment and underbody help amateur mechanics to understand the location of the various components.

Implementation of procedures of routine maintenance of the car according to the above schedule and in an orderly, step by step manner guarantees the achievement of excellent results and reliable, efficient service vehicle for a long time. Remember that it is important to complete the implementation of all transferred in compliance with the procedures specified schedule kilometrazhno-time intervals. Trying to focus on just taken separately inspection and replacement will never give the same result as the faithful observance of all requirements of routine maintenance of the car.

In the course of this service you will quickly make sure that many of the procedures can - and should - be grouped together in view of the similarity of the nature of work or the proximity of several, otherwise unrelated components.

For example, if you raise the car to lubricate the chassis components must be at the same time check the status of elements of power and exhaust, steering and suspension. During the rotation of the wheels is convenient to check the condition of the brakes. Finally, if you rented a torque wrench, for example, to tighten the spark plug, it is unreasonable to restrict the implementation of just this problem - check the correctness at the same time efforts of a tightening of all the threaded fasteners whose state is critical to ensure the reliability and safety of the vehicle.

The first step in the program is the maintenance of the vehicle self-study. Carefully read the description of any of the alleged procedures, then prepare all the necessary tools and materials and spare parts. If you have reason to believe that in the course of performing any procedure, complications may occur in advance or consult a more experienced mehanikom- lover.

Timetable for implementation of procedures of routine maintenance of the car is made on the basis of assumptions about the independent performance of the owner of most of the work. Although the proposed schedule and was compiled on the basis of the recommendations of the manufacturer, the interval to perform many procedures (such as how to check the status / replacement of lubricants and hydraulic fluids) of this Guide has been reduced in order to increase the guarantee of reliability of the maximization of service life of systems and components car . Moreover, it should be noted that the owner, who wants to constantly maintain your vehicle in the best condition, many of the maintenance procedures can be performed even more often than recommended in the chart shown here. Compilers Manual solution of this issue is left to the discretion of the owner of the car.

The primary maintenance of a new car should be done by the workshop of dealer branch to avoid the breach of warranty. The most common primary inspection services are free of charge (for details, please consult the dealer representative offices).