Life with a 2021 Tucson CRDI: Giving my SUV some much needed TLC

To round off today's session gave my Tucson a wash at the tyre store itself as they gave me some discount too.

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Giving some much needed cleaning and minor repair job to my beloved SUV

Hello all, updating the thread to input some useful information and few minor jobs I carried out to keep my SUV as much fresh as possible.

Job #1- Alignment and Balancing

Since fitting the new Michelins which have been performing fantastic on my SUV, I'm loving to gobble up miles with it, therefore covered excess of 7000kms in just a couple of months and therefore decided to carry out the WA/WB work even though I didn't face any pulling issue but it's better to be safe considering each tyre costs a bomb and I really don't wanna spend a fortune on new tyres for my Tucson anytime soon.

Alignment in process, the technician informed me camber was just a little bit out nothing serious.

While roaming at the store saw this rather nice picture of Michelin man (Bibendum) meeting his Grandpa, this reminded me of my late grandpa, he was so caring and loving to me, really miss him very much!

Job #2- Pedicure to my Tucson- Deep Cleaning of alloy wheels

Since this store also offers washing services decided to get the alloys deep cleaned when they were removed from the car during balancing, they charged me a bit extra for that but believe me it was worth every penny, they liberally used soap solution and jet washed all the dirt that accumulated over all these years, the results were fantastic, the alloys and tyres became squeaky clean post that and have made it a point to do deep cleaning of alloys at least yearly.

Just look at the difference between the dirty and clean alloys!

Job #3- Brake cleaning and degreasing

Since the tyres were out I decided to use the residual can of brake cleaner spray which was bought by me during the tyre purchase saga, therefore carefully sprayed them over the guide pins and the caliper assembly, the results turned out to be rather nice with quite a bit of brake dust removed.

Also decided to use my WD-40 spray which arrived today itself on the steering rack boot, shocker, bush etc and on the lug nuts too, got my hands totally dirty to an extent that visitors to the tyre shop thought I was a mechanic and started asking me about tyres and other stuff .

Job #4- A good wash

To round off today's session gave my Tucson a wash at the tyre store itself as they gave me some discount too. Yes it took much time cause there was a single cleaning guy and my SUV is a size large.

Sadly I've some outstation work and busy schedule for a couple of months therefore Tucson would see a massive drop in running but I promise the moment I'm relieved I'll take my SUV to what it loves doing the most, looooong highway trips!

Thanks

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