Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1925, Page 58

Depreciation Cu Effort to Make Machine Better Man Who Is Satisfied to Keep Car Up to| Average of Performance Will F ind Loss Certain After Few Years. BY WILLIAM ULLAAN. I'here is a stays good unless Detter, and it seen of car care like a The so-callad s the ou try m atter man his car—is ridicule, but ,are witnessing daily \ie opposite are rapidly ppreciate t rule under the fusser operat his opinion. nine-tenths reluctance to keep a car as good as it was when it first rolled from the salesroom floor. Most own- ars, he says, think they are keeping the car good when they give it such are and attentlon as it fail to compensate for dep: by seeking to better the t better results from sbject of ciation Valae of Fussing. sis i average car owner to attach ew contrivance that operates m the instrument board. “Frills, they call them. Yet it is just this very fussing which could save them many of cussing. Rocords from service stations show hat it is & costly indulgence to be- eve that there is nothing wrong with the car, ‘that it is in pe dition and needs no_tampe No manufacturer will claim that de- preciation does not operate to the deteriment of & car's value and use- fulness, and how is that depreciation to be counteracted unless the owner tries to make his car better? It is a common thing t saying that nothing | | eda, but trated by the reluctance | t by C—';mtinual |less gas mileage? M's above the average anyway." Looking fo Future, His_answer to his critics was to the effect that .beinx satisfied with sent results would result in dis- action with the future, which, his standpoint, was of even greater importance. "hen this car {s two years old I want to have it | deliver as much gas mileage as the | average car of its make and model | delivers for the average owner to- day,” he explained. “I want it to go | up hills tomorrow just as well as it | would climb hills today without the aid of my improvement. The ony way I can expect this is to seek to sake the car perform better now and | keeping on trying to make ter.” fany people understand hy an owner will go to the trouble |of discarding one spring-control de- vice in favor of another. w particular car seems to ride enough.” They do not appreciate the fact that the owner is trying to fore- stall the day when people will be telling him that the new cars ride }like a dream. By striving to obtain still better riding qualities from his [ c succeeds in keeping the riding | qualities the way the uld be. The idea that a car is as good as it can be when it's uew is coming to be generally recoguized as an ex- pensive delusion, because it simply | means that the rate of depreciation | cannot mination to give the car every at- | tention it needs. Depreciation, being | quickly overtakes the owner's deter- | of three kinds, outdistances ordinary | cism of the man who The result petter performance from s reasonably satis mbing. They t car care at every point. 11 | good. Less From Wear and Tear. something that isn't es First. there is the that is largely because most people | an see their cars or as at the present. sed by ordinary wear and tear en there is the wear inflicted upon a car by reason ef carelessness in | operation and inadvertent neglect | And, thirdly, there is the wear | his ca¥ 2 e|is inflicted upon a car by tim | trying to make|m works. ! of d ciation owner has a real h and unless he sets out avowed intention of is car | better than it was when he first | bought it he will soon find himself | they are| Trring to Weep Up Value. 'he man who maie better now is mare! as good tomorrow as it is today An owner does mot have to go ¢ his way to apply the rule. T! s {llustrated in the case of a mot st who found that he could obt better peiformance from his ca making some provisions for adm colder ald to the carburetor wh machine climbed long a Adding accessories that improve the u way ollow this rule L required quite a bit o car is but one way to follow tl devise 2 successful to operate | The addition of better parts, efforts to such an air vent con e from the | attain better adjustments of parts and | recelved was suMcient to discourage WOrk of bettering the car as you ride. any one with a lesser viston. But in| For instance, better piston rings, in- | car better, thereby Keeping it good but ordinarily efficient, may do much for future use. You could told. And | Of_the clutch muy easily ‘What if you do get a little (Continued on Seventh Page) NASH Nask Leads the World in Motor Car Value |is the car that is good fails to stay | | and mor s | depreciation | | Level Indicator Not Always Guide on the en reason has enough oil to stick is vold is a gi | quentiy . s { parts and | hing the indicator instrument board, and the criticism he | timely replacements mean much in this | ;o | will re in the crankcase. the end he succeeded in making his|Stalled at a time when those in the car | indicator’s conserve engine power and prevent | \hile you ro have obtained just ag|Wear on the main bearings through ex- (g ee 2 on = little | cessive ofl dilution. A better adjustment | rve to im- | gy upon the top of th THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHII‘.IGTON. D. 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Advanced Six Series Models range from $1095 to $2290, f. 0. b. factory HURLEY MOTOR COMPANY ‘ 1522 14th St. North 6462 Open Evenings and Sunday f he has the owner slant. ner comes in w some strang Pick gut a repairer who is as muc Don't be =: n fied with @ chap who spends all his spare | tié motorin’ they do is dor me drivin' an easy chair by the frg- ideas from week end | ., the car owner | 9" and it hielps me get at causes. get that far you've practically A mun doesr't necessarily have to own | 5% t a lot to be a zood re- s likely to be a better re- | When a complaint e noise in the clutch, | giac ows just exactly what | Sreepin: on em, And at about. : eame trouble himself | they aiready know they have. MARCH 8, 1925—PART 3. —By BECK Metropolitan Newspaper Serviee) \\ SO U NN WEAR ON CLUTCH. cn Both Ends s are repair of | Too many way. Wh day’s cars T take to im engine is suffering most when 3 | car of long standin’. Thes a with a different brand n with the of trouble than in second gear, or lo e the engine isn't stry teh may hop fast Standing betwe e of the engine to the whaels candle being bur < driving f to-date an. | the resista try to cluteh is like a even to at both ends. possible and in proper adj discover trouble that they don’t know is | ally stand this s 1Ly slipping it with foot, howev that may be the straw that will by it out. 1 east I'm in a TRe | petter position to work on the troubles WILLYS-OVERLAND THE OLD MECHANIC SAYS i i T ‘ | Often Like Candle Being Burndd| are trying to plow through deep mud &- be er er, ro lists by of the American Automot Gasoline Economy Vital Now, A.A.A. Warns Motorists of U. S. Is Greatest Weapon in Hands of Driver Fighting High Price and Threatened Exhaustion of Supply, Expert Says. Automobile practice Easoline r before in the history of the motor vehicle has there been # more urgent need for conwervation along this 1 This is the being broad- cast to the Nation's 17,000,000 motor- Thomas P. Henry, presid ¢ Associa- the chief hand to of gasoline. ntion of oil in- tural oil supply i fast fou on fa not advise the moto: k results by cleaning out the car upon sequent repairs er is advised to take his service station to see that h ating the car on logica! mix “There is positive danger in leading ¥ erage owner to believe that tion, who sees in economy weapon the motorist’s combat th a P Whether terests t t ouble lies with I Carburetors are only inc | this huge waste of gasoline. human element is the real facto waste or economs carburetor Economical Speed Set. “The average driver does not ve | that, as a general | travels above the eco the more it .costs him ous purpose. If | The econo speed for the average trade maneuver. een 15 and 25 miles a I help hold price to the consumer on the Herery If it states, “wi s true nisning. | “Gasoline do ing wasted {low and | speed when reason of this Most Urgent Now. e | the Nat, Fasoline added the wastage received > a el tr. h r t of keeping oo When they cou It is obv ldling Bad Practice. e average automobile m tomobile a mile than | casioned also il‘ the failure of the driver to select|You Can Buy no Finer Car FINE MOET O R C.A RS \ew WILLYS-KNIGHT with an Engine Youll Never Wear Out The success of this fine new Willys-Knight has been instan- taneous and national. People everywhere are realizing the great advantages of owning this car. Its engine is free from noisy tap- pets; actually grows more power- Company, Inc.. 1108-14 Vermont Ave. Main 4340 Branch Salesroom, 1022 Conn. Ave. N.W. A New Sedan....Brilliantly Engineered. New luxu Beauty..NewPrice $200 lower . New ful with use. 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