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Taking care of the UNDERCARRIAGE
| 题名： | Taking care of the UNDERCARRIAGE |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Steve Banner |
| 摘要： | When fitted to a van used by a carpet fitter which spends most of its time parked outside someone's house while woven or tufted floor coverings are laid, then the operational life of a suspension might not be too painful. However, if they are installed in a light commercial on stop-start home delivery work, then they can expect an unremitting hammering. Under pressure to get goods delivered to the consumer's front door, drivers will bounce their vans up over pavements, whack the wheels against kerbs and hit potholes at speed. If they are dropping off packages and parcels, then there is at least the consolation that the light commercial concerned is not being asked to shoulder a lot of weight. If they are delivering ambient, chilled and frozen food in a refrigerated body, however, then the weight of an insulated box, the fridge unit and the load can impose a substantial burden. The best way of avoiding steering and suspension problems is to adhere to the routine service intervals recommended by the vehicle's manufacturer, advises Chris Woolsey, UK technical quality and warranty director at Stellantis. Brands the group embraces that market light commercials in the UK include Vauxhall, Citroen, Peugeot and Fiat Professional. "With a Fiat Professional Ducato, for example, the service interval is 30,000 miles," he says. If its duty cycle is an arduous one, however - and home delivery is likely to fall into that category - then that might have to be reduced to, say, 20,000 miles to forestall trouble. |
| 出版年： | 2023 |
| 期刊名称： | Transport engineer |
| 期： | Jun. |
| 页码： | 28-29 |
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