To eliminate the possibility of loosening bolts and nuts, and thus ensure traffic safety, it is necessary to periodically, every 10 thousand km of run, check the quality of the fasteners and, if necessary, tighten this or that bolt and nut. The operation is carried out on an inspection ditch or overpass, having a full set of keys supplied with the car, and, in addition, a 30 mm key for tightening the steering knuckle nut, a 17 mm socket wrench with a hinge for tightening the nuts of the front engine mount cushion to the body crossmember and a torque wrench, which are not in the driver's tool kit.
In conclusion of the description of maintenance work, I would like to remind you of another operation that most drivers consider unimportant and therefore rarely perform, lubrication. Although there are few such places on VAZ cars, they are forgotten. These units are patient: they may not make themselves known for a long time, but, as they say, nothing lasts forever. Do not wait for an emergency, but periodically lubricate:
- battery terminals and clamps, (after cleaning them from dirt and oxides) technical vaseline VTV-1;
- door hinges and hood lock drive rod with engine oil;
- rubbing parts of door opening limiters, hinge and spring of fuel tank hatch cover, hood stop and trunk lid torsion bars with technical Vaseline VTV-1;
- sliding seat slides with consistent grease Fiol-1;
- door keyholes and trunk lid with graphite powder (in summer) or technical petroleum jelly VTV-1 in an aerosol can (in cold weather, especially after washing), after first blowing them with compressed air.