Female car drivers don’t DIY car maintenance as often as men according to research by Autoquake.com.

Which could be because the research is carried out by men (only having a laugh guys…), women are more honest in our survey responses (although this does us no credit), because our foxy feller does all this for us or because we are members of FOXY Lady Drivers Club and get free seasonal car checks and associated services carried out by female friendly garage professionals. Sounds plausible to me.

And because women are FOXY by nature of course, as in female, feisty and fussy that is.

Here’s the survey detail if you’re interested.

• More than one-in-ten female drivers (12%) never check their car’s oil level whereas just under 8% of men admit to this
• Twice as many women (14%) as men (7%) admit to never checking their tyre pressures while almost one-in-five say they never check the tread-depth. (If true, there’s no excuse here girls – join the Club and we’ll explain why this is really serious and how to stay safer in future)
• Women drivers are also more likely than men to pay someone else to carry out basic maintenance for them
• Just over 14% of women pay to have coolant levels checked compared with 5% of men
• A staggering 9% of women pay someone else to check their washer fluid level compared to 3% of men

And apparently drivers in Northern Ireland are more diligent about all this than we in the South East.

Moi? FOXY, female, feisty and fussy, living in the South East? I get my husband to do my car maintenance for me but I wouldn’t dream of paying him. Not sure if there was a survey category for that!

FOXY

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