{"id":1559,"date":"2012-03-12T11:45:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T01:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:49:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:49:38","slug":"car-maintenance-every-woman-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/driving\/car-maintenance-every-woman-can-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Maintenance Every Woman Can Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve probably seen that joke doing the rounds about the male way of changing the oil versus the female way of changing the oil, where the guy does it himself \u2013 with the \u201chelp\u201d of a crate of beer or so \u2013 while the woman just heads down to the local service station and enjoys a paper and a coffee while someone else does it for her.\u00a0 This wee script is a good laugh, but it is, of course an exaggeration.\u00a0 Women can and do car maintenance for themselves, so don\u2019t let any jerk of a mechanic tell you that you can\u2019t.\u00a0 What\u2019s more, if you know your way around the inside of a car, you\u2019re less likely to be ripped off by said jerky mechanic who thinks \u201cHere\u2019s a woman who knows nothing about cars, so we\u2019ll see what we can get away with telling her needs doing and charge her the earth for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Any woman can benefit from knowing how to do a bit of basic car maintenance, ranging from the penny-pinching mother who wants to save a buck or so by doing everything she can rather than paying for somebody else to do it, through to a professional single woman who wants to prove to her male colleagues that she\u2019s no dumb bimbo, not to mention the country women who are located miles from the nearest service station and don\u2019t have much choice.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got good authority for working on your car, too.\u00a0 Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II once trained as a mechanic when she was Princess Elizabeth during World War II (to set a good example to all the other women of England at the time), and a rumour is circulating that once, when the royal Daimler broke down, she had a rummage under the hood for herself, presumably having removed her white kid gloves first.<\/p>\n

So what are the basic car maintenance tasks that every woman can do?\u00a0 In a nutshell, you can do everything the guys can do \u2013 except that the average woman probably will find it a little harder to get a big Land Rover<\/a> or other 4×4 up on the jack to get the tyre off.<\/p>\n