Most car maintenance advice is either obvious or buried in an owner's manual nobody reads.

A mechanic's viral breakdown of five things you can do right now to avoid expensive repairs is making the rounds, and the first one catches a lot of people off guard. Would you do this for the sake of extending your car’s longevity, or is it too hard a habit to start?

5 Easy Car Maintenance Tips

In a viral TikTok with more than 435,000 views, content creator and mechanic @teamcarcare runs through five vehicle maintenance tips he says mechanics don't have time to walk customers through during a typical service visit.

"5 easy car care hacks mechanics won't tell you,” the text overlay on the screen reads.