Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1926, Page 69

THE SUNDAY EFFICENCY HELD MOTORISTS G0AL YOUR CAR ard MINE | A Weekly Departmem‘o( Helpfulness, Information and ! Entertainment for Motor Car Owners. i By WILLIAM ULLMAN. General Manager, A. A. A., =t i i A pedestrian i toist walking | Outlines Aim of All Auto e O e Club Members. | hour parking zone. s ‘ Twin Silver Anniversaries. Thousands of Washingtonians will cross the spacious portals at 1138 Connectleut_avenue this week. This writer will be one of the fivst. It is “sulon week” for the Cadillic Motor Car_Co. in 900 cities of the . 'The local agency is observ. ilver anniversary of the par- {ent concern with all other distribu- tors by staging a comprehensive dis- play of the latest offerings. second silver anrivers be celebrated . formaliy at the same address, and it s this one that will attract additional nds (o the showroom. gency. It is the twenty-fifth anniversary of hegome the | Rudolph onnection with the in this | company. hut when | From all walks of life these callers 5, or tire blows | will come. In all kinds of cars, from oS AiBep] yne’s best | the legst expensive to the most lux- o e on s e e B, | urous, they will drive up to the doors o cfortune oceurs, | of the Washington Cadillac Co. They ases utterly to have any | will see the newest Cadilla¢ cars. s Hundreds of them never can hope to own so luxurious a machine, but they will come to shake the hand of the man who h s the local company— an they call “friend”"—and wish y ill another quarter century of | ekt Gescrved ausees i <nould ‘hav ment of en of this attitude on wfacturers, service garages and - automobile | n is voiced by Ernest N. <mith, g can Autc “The automobile greatest ¢ of le club | wwe the to help himself, him gas with cessity for g walk, « deposit on a container, catching a Tking buck to the stalled | n awkward can, and | round to return to the Figuring the Figures. | Last_year the average motorigt spent §217 to keep his car running and in order. This. of course, ex- udes depreciation, licensing, garag- Telephone Call Solves Problem. | ing and insurance. In 1923 the figure Often a_motor in a dilemma | Was $222, while in 1919 the annual av- to whether it is best to take o |€Tdge expense was $281. . These figures are susceptible of much misinterpretation. They lead to the superficial concluslon that ex- penses are decreasing and that motor repair bills are not what. they used to be. They do not suggest that perhaps what the average motorist is saving in the way of repair bills and tires ha is spending for depreciation because he shorter period he keeps a car. and fewer motorists have nes overhauled. That is left r who takes the car in e or to the used-car buyer if the itical enough to want it 1y the used-car buyer is rticular. AS a consequence e puts up with many little annoy- and often does not care if the nss pass ofl or if the gears slip out of mesh. An_alarming number of used cars are found to be without adequate brakes because their owners will not spend money on new lining and the labor to put the car in safe condition. Possibly it would be better If the figures for 1926 could show that more money was being spent for parts, sup- plies and service. Hundreds of thousands of motorists, trained in mechanical work through ownership of a certain small car, are buying used cars and are tuning them up themselves. This process is said [to have reached surprisingly larse | dimensions. It seems quite likely. | then, that the figures on repairs and service do not reflect the true state of affairs, Foiling the 0il Faker. According to the better business bu- reau of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, about 50 per cent | of the garages and filling stations sus- pected of dispensing used motor oils and inferior products actually were found to be making such fraudulent substitutions. It now is pretty well es- tablished that the motorist who does not give thought to what he is buying in the way of lubricants simply is buying trouble for himself. According to another, and perhaps slightly exaggerated, estimate, dis- honest substitutton figures in half the sales of lubricating ofls in New York City. What happens to all the lubricat- ing ofl 20,000,000 motorists drain from their crankcases? Well, that conun- { drum now seems to carry its own an- swer. 1t goes back into the crank- cases of milllons of cars whose owners aven't yet le: ed that one can't get | @'n turning fling station. as a tire or to ruin the ane popu h f orist, and is the aim of otor club to make them les ess trying all the time. The larity of the automobile is g ccause service of this type ng more efficient. and zains in club reason for this effective service. CHEAPLY TO CALIFORHIA| ‘Western Club to Take Details OfF of Hands of Car Owners in E s going to California | e oftered an oppor ity to save money and trouble in | the ‘maiter of shipping their car cross the country by the Automobile b of Southern ifornia, whick proposes to take pping details off | he hands of car ¢ rs with e harge for the service. Outside of freight isual charge for loading the ma- | nines aboard the train, the owner | Will be called upon to bear no other | cxpense, The machines will be handled by skilled employes, and the saving on cach automobile shipped to southern California will amount to from $35 t. $75. The service is extended to all motorists, whether or not they belong 10 any automob'le club. Motorists wishing to take advantage of this offer ave advised to write fc the Automobile Club of Southern Cali- fornia at Los Angeles. WHITE LINES SAVE ROAD. Edges Not Subjected to Chipping by Driving. White lines painted down the middle of the highway are supposed to save life and limb. Now road officials ve the road as well. he line of dem: fon is plain, | not afraid » their | something for nothing. | highway, with the resdit| Buy branded lubricants and in cans | { they stay closer o the center, the | wherever 1 least buy from <t substantiai | reliable « il on long to bu Washingtonia r the Winter costs and the being forced | quid trout subjected 1o tri thousands. of g a few’ g he I'HE BO=S I TATKING ONC. e Satisfaction IS ONE OF OUR BASIC PRI ciples,” said the Boss as he ran his handkerchief across his forehead, “that every customer MUST be satis- fied. With this aim ever in mind we have labored with each one. in order to make sure that this policy and this pledge was fulfilled. And it is a mat- ter of pride with us that we believe this very thing has happened! The number of patrons who keep coming back to us for oil. gas, crank-case serv- ice. lubrication and high-grade accessories. is gratifying. indeed. and proves our claim that you get satisfaction plus tar Service Station To those who are not familiar with this institution, we offer this challenge: We do not want any “knockers” among our patrons—they must be boosters! Drive in and Tearn what satisfactory service means—in its fullest sense. If u don't agree with us, then we will admit defeat of one of our basic prin- ples—but not before! T Fiamk You Ttie Boaa” —at the which will appear in Watch for them' Third of a new series on “The Boss Talks. this paper ecery Sunday mornina for ten week: CL7he MODERN DOWNTOWN STATION) 5 STAR SERVICE ST. TlONi A BLOCK BELOW THE AVENUE AT TWELFTH S [ 12th and C Streets N.W. JNO. R. BRIGGS, Manager 7 unhappy result. lcs insist upon the use of shellac as a cylinder head gasket binder or seal. there are man. enced -| causes it to change to a hard binder. Even In its natur a good water seal, provided it is the kind that will stand hot water, is where many repairmen who follow the grease idea go wrong, and many car owners, t0o. For Don’t Fall for This, Autumn leaves soon will be falling There s more than poetry in this. | It i a warning signal to all drivers | who want to avoid accldents. Leaves fall on wet pavements and trick the driver into believing the streets and roads are dry. He jams on the brakes and a “leaf skid" is the | Here's Why Gaskets Leak. While many experfenced mechan- other equally experi: repairmen who favor grease. The theory with grease is that heat 1 state grease makes Here vlinder heads STAR. always use water pump grease, not the soft grease that is used for spring bolts and steering connections. For Sake of Safety. ' Static electricity is apt 1o send a spark from the metal nozzle of the gasoline pump hose to the filler pipe of the gas tank when metal touches metal, and for this reason it is a good plan to tap the nozzle against the rear bumper or fender guards before in- serting it in the filler pipe. Any spark that is about to be released then s less likely to start a fire, because it does not occur directly over the vapor from the gasoline tank. It is also well to bear in mind al- ways that there is more danger of an explosion from an, empty gas tank than from one that is full. It is the vapor of gas that causes combustion, not the gasoline itself. A tank with just a little gas and a lot of air is an ideal mixture for an explosion. A tank that is nearly filled often will. catch fire wifhout exploding. Grease a Washer. Always keep the rear wheel bearings filled with grease. Not that anything serious would happen if they were neglected, hecause these bearings re- ceive lubricant from the- differential. If the thinned lubricant from the dif- ferential is allowed to work out as far as the wheel bearings and passes the hers, however, trouble may be expected from grease being thrown on WASHINGTON greater amount of heat. . D the brakes. Fresh grease in the wheel bearings acts as a very effective washer. Small Valves Need Care. Gther things being equal, it is well to remember that small valves in an engine are apt to give more trouble than large ones, because a larger piece of metal is capable of absorbing a In the days when valves were as large as some pistons are.today, pifting of their heads was a rarity and owners thought nothing of running ma: thousands of miles without valve grinding. If your engine has small valves and the metals are not cholce stock, it will pay to “baby" the engine as much as possible. What's the Answer? 1. What is the Otto-type engine? 2. What year marked the greatest percentage of increase in the produc- tion of automobiles in America? - 3. Who invented the first practical electric self-starter for automobilea? 4. Should an engine “ping” or knock lightly when the spark is fully ;{l]‘\l':nced and it is climbing a steep 5. Where does the water go to that runs down into the doors of the closed car? Think these over during the week and look for the answers in.this de- partment next Sunday. You may be wrong. C (Covyright. 1926.) . OCTOBER 10. 1926--PART: 3. BRAKE TEST DEVISED. Heat Key to Equal Adjustment of Four-Wheel Kind. Are vour four-wheel brakes adjusted equally? Here is a simple way to tell: Apply the brakes both gently and vigorously about a dozen times, then stop the car and feel each brake band to see whether they seem equally hot. Allowance should be made for greater heat at the rear bands, use in some cars these brakes operate before the front ones come into action. 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