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Fairfax Motors Service and Parts Department has a proud tradition of performing quality repairs and maintenance on European luxury cars. Our technicians are certified mechanics with decades of combined training and experience on Audi, BMW, Land Rover, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maseratti, Mercedes-Benz, Saab, Volvo and VW.

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Prepare Your Car for a Roadtrip

In this video, certified Service Manager of Fairfax Motors, Brian Trochelmann, describes the needed steps to ensure the safety of your car before you embark on your road trip. This video is designed for the novice car owner and includes detailed instructions to check your car with useful tips and procedures. This video series includes an overview of the basics steps for inspecting your car, needed tools and supplies.

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Brian Trochelmann: I am Brian Trochelmann, Service Manager at Fairfax Motors. Today I am going to show you how to prepare your car for a road trip. This preparation is going to include inspection of the exterior of our car, the condition of the tyres, we are going to be checking the trunk, the spare, our toolkit, and other necessary things, i.

, a safety kit that we might have. We are going to be inspecting the front and the rear lights. The undercarriage of our car; we are going to be looking underneath the hood to do a visual inspection of all the fluid levels. Also we are going to be looking at the interior to verify our seat belts are functioning, our indicators; all of these things are working.

Today we have a 2005 BMW 530 equipped with a manual transmission. As we get going, we are going to have a few things that we need. We want to keep in mind the type of car that you have. Make sure that you check your owner's manual for the proper fluid specifications when it comes to anything you use in your car. Today for our car we have Automatic Transmission Fluid for the power steering system. Manufacturers recommended viscosity of the engine oil, standard wind shield washer fluid that you can purchase at any part store. We have a few tools, we have a standard tyre pressure gauge, we have a penny which we will explain later and we have some rags. Now a little bit about myself. I hail from Germany. I have been working on cars since 1978. I receive my apprenticeship with Mercedes Benz in Brayman, Germany. I have been working here with Fairfax Motors for the last year. Fairfax Motors is located in Fairfax, Virginia. Now let's turn our attention to the car and see how we can prepare your car for your road trip.