What’s on the Checking Fluids poster
A 6-row table: Fluid · Check · Note.
Reservoirs are colour-coded and marked in most modern cars.
- Engine oil — Monthly — Dipstick, cold, level ground
- Coolant — Monthly — Never open hot
- Brake fluid — Monthly — A falling level means wear or a leak
- Screen wash — As needed — Use proper fluid, not water
- Power steering — Occasionally — If not electric
- Gearbox oil — Per schedule — Often sealed for life
Never open a hot coolant cap. The system is pressurised and releases scalding steam. Wait until it is cool to touch.
Questions about the Checking Fluids poster
- What’s on the Checking Fluids poster?
- A 6-row table: Fluid · Check · Note. Reservoirs are colour-coded and marked in most modern cars. Engine oil — Monthly — Dipstick, cold, level ground; Coolant — Monthly — Never open hot; Brake fluid — Monthly — A falling level means wear or a leak; Screen wash — As needed — Use proper fluid, not water; Power steering — Occasionally — If not electric; Gearbox oil — Per schedule — Often sealed for life. Never open a hot coolant cap. The system is pressurised and releases scalding steam. Wait until it is cool to touch.
- Who is the Checking Fluids poster for?
- Checking Fluids belongs to the Practical skills section rather than to a school year, because life skills is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning the car can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Checking Fluids poster?
- Check oil monthly, on level ground, with the engine cold. Overfilling is as damaging as underfilling. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Checking Fluids belongs on the wall where that life skills work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Checking Fluids?
- After an Accident, Breaking Down and Buying a Used Car sit alongside Checking Fluids in the Practical skills section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.After an AccidentBreaking DownBuying a Used Car
- Is the Checking Fluids poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Checking Fluids downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Practical skills section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Checking Fluids poster print at?
- Checking Fluids is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Checking Fluids loses nothing.Printing guide
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