Pre Trip Car Checklist Before a Long Drive

A road trip can be ended by a breakdown that a ten-minute inspection would have caught, and the problem is that most people skip the pre-trip check in their eagerness to leave. The checklist is short, simple, and best done a few days before departure, so any problem has time to be fixed at a shop rather than discovered on the shoulder of a highway two hundred miles from anywhere.The tires come first, because they are the only thing between you and the road, and the check means pressure on all four plus the spare, and a look at the tread for wear or damage. The fluids follow, with oil level, coolant, brake fluid, and windshield washer all worth a glance, because a car that is low on any of them is a car that will let you know at the worst