The durability of a car depends a lot on driving style, so we will discuss how we drive and how we should not drive, if, of course, there is a desire to save both a car and money.
When driving to work or on a business trip, try to count how many times you have to use the clutch, gearbox and brakes. After all, while the car is in order, it rarely occurs to anyone to pay attention to how certain controls are used. Of course, it is not difficult to change, say, worn-out brake pads before the time. But with the replacement of brake drums or discs will have to tinker. And it’s not at all easy to deal with worn parts of the clutch or gearbox.
Nothing, of course, lasts forever in a car. But if, for example, you use the clutch unreasonably often, maneuvering in dense city traffic, and do not take your foot off the pedal, even while standing at a traffic light, the clutch disc will, of course, not serve the prescribed 80,000 km of run. Its early replacement of the situation will not save: the next step is the premature failure of the plates «baskets» clutch and clutch release bearing, which from the thoughtless operation of the transmission simply «dries up» and breaks through «basket»...
The same can be said about the gearbox. The most «patient» from domestic «Zhiguli» gearbox is capable «leave» and 150, and 200 thousand km without repair; Audi gearboxes are somewhat more capable of serving. But the dashing control of the box, accompanied by jerks of the lever from one position to another, disables the synchronizers long before the deadline. And this, though not the most difficult, but the repair. Therefore, patient drivers, when shifting gears, use the technique «for three accounts», that is, as if talking about themselves «one two Three» when moving the lever from one position to another.
However, «athletes», who prefer brisk «take right off the bat», you have to pay not only for failing steering and prematurely worn tires. With this style of driving, a huge load falls on the drive parts - constant velocity joints, bearings, clutch disc, not to mention the engine. No doubt, modern cars equipped with powerful engines can drive like sports cars for some time. But for «sports» loads they are not intended, unless, of course, we are talking about «one-time» car.
What to do if the need arises «tear» engine, getting out on a muddy road or skidding in the sand or on ice? Experienced drivers know what to do in such cases: they create conditions for the car that increase its cross-country ability. It is enough to reduce the pressure in the tires of the driving wheels to one atmosphere in order to significantly improve the adhesion of the wheels to the surface of a dirt road. And on a front-wheel drive car, which is superior in cross-country ability to a car of a classic layout, difficult sections of dirt roads are overcome by moving in reverse.