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How to Make Your Ford Ready For Spring

Cooler days are over and spring has set in and it’s time to clean your house and workspaces, as well as, your cherished Ford. Just imagine how much time you spend in your vehicle and accordingly, it makes sense to invest some time to clean your car and make it ready for the spring season. To get the best performance out of your car with smooth ride quality all through the year, it’s vital to clean your vehicle at regular intervals.

Here are vital cleaning tips to make your Ford ready for the spring season:

1. Checking the Fluid, Oil and Battery of Your Car

Some vehicles have inbuilt monitors that sense and display when the oil level is low, but not all vehicles have them. Every time your vehicle runs 5000 to 8000 kilometres, you should take your vehicle to top up fluid and oil, as well as, get battery inspected. This helps your car to remain in top working condition and continue performing at its optimal best.

2. Cleaning Interiors of Your Car

First, vacuum the seats and carpets of your car to remove accumulated dirt and dust of departed winter days. Wipe clean the car’s dashboard with a dusting cloth and clean your car’s glass surface with a glass cleaner. Use a mix of some water, spot cleaner and little vinegar oil to clean cloth mats. Besides, you can use this vinegar-water mix to clean the interior mirrors and windows.

3. Washing Your Car

A thorough wash is imperative to fight the salt that gets accumulated from the roads, dirt, dust and grime. This involves washing the tyres, wheels, undercarriage, crannies and nooks. Once this is done, you should rotate your car’s tyres. This will ensure your vehicle’s tyres last longer and that you’ll save money eventually.

4. Rotating Tyres of Your Car

If it’s time to change oil, then probably it’s also time to rotate your car’s tyres and get the tyre pressure checked. Experts’ advice for car’s tyre rotation once your car runs for 8000 kilometres. This helps to maintain the health of your vehicle’s tyres, thus, your vehicle tyres will serve you longer.

5. Waxing Your Car

Moreover, consider waxing the complete vehicle exterior, as salt and grime wear away the wax on vehicles. Thus, offering your vehicle with loving tender care will help ensure the paint looks bright for years to come.

The Bottom Line

Well, when you’re making your car ready for the spring, you should also check whether all auto parts of your car are working in top condition. For this, it’s recommended that you take your car to an authorised service centre and ask the technician to check for the proper functioning of auto parts. Upon inspection, if the technician finds any of your Ford car parts either damaged or exhausted and needs a replacement for optimal performance, then you should consider the technician’s advice and get the faulty or damaged auto parts replaced to restore your vehicle’s health.

The end of an Era: The last engines to come out of Ford’s Geelong factory

September 27, 2016 Fordpro Wreckers

September 26th 2016 marks the day that the last Australian built Barra inline 6 and 5.0L Coyote engine were produced, with the last of each seen photographed next to each other.

A sad day in the Geelong Ford factory as it has been producing engines since 1925 and also up to 1959 produced vehicles out of that factory too. There is no known figure as to how many engines have been produced there. But Ford can confirm that near 4.5 million engines have rolled out of the factory since 1960 when the falcon was first produced.

An end of an era, and an end to some great engines. Ford Australias assembly plant closure is a sad day for the Ford community, it is confirmed that production will finish on October 7th 2016 at its plants.

Ford Australia’s Broadmeadows Assembly Plant closure

September 6, 2016 Fordpro Wreckers

With upcoming closure of the Ford Australia Assembly Plant in October of this year, Ford has announced that it will no longer be producing their much loved Australian Fords.

What does this mean for us here at FordPro Wreckers? Well it doesn’t change anything for us, there are many Fords still on the road and there will still be for many many years to come. Although Ford won’t be producing the cars anymore, we will still have access to many parts and damaged vehicles for us to be able to continue on strongly for years to come.

Ford originally stopped making one of their many Australian built cars back in 2007. That was the Ford Fairlane. Although they haven’t been produced for nearly 10 years now, we still have a large amount of Fairlane parts available.

Ford Performance Vehicles also closed down within the last few years, making the cars that are still on the road go up in value. But that didn’t change anything for that availability of the cars that we get in here for wrecking. We still regularly get in GT, GT-P, F6, GS and Super Pursuits. Making available any parts that are needed for the public to purchase from us to repair their FPV or just to upgrade their Falcon.

So with the closure of the assembly plant, comes the end of the Falcon range and the much loved Territory. The falcon has been serving Australia well since 1960 when the first one rolled off the assembly line and the Territory since 2004 when it became Ford Australias leading SUV in sales.

Ford Rangers are something that we are now new to wrecking here, so we will continue to wreck them out as they will still be sold here in Australia. With the closure of the plant comes new windows that have opened for new Ford models to come here to Australia including the Mustang and Everest.