Helpful Hints For Winter driving…

Keep your headlights clear with car wax! Just wipe ordinary car wax on your headlights. It contains special water repellents that will prevent that messy mixture from accumulating on your lights – lasts 6 weeks.

Squeak-proof your wipers with rubbing alcohol! Wipe the wipers with a cloth saturated with rubbing alcohol or ammonia. This one trick can make badly streaking & squeaking wipers change to near perfect silence & clarity.

Ice-proof your windows with vinegar! Frost on its way? Just fill a spray bottle with three parts vinegar to one part water & spritz it on all your windows at night. In the morning, they’ll be clear of icy mess. Vinegar contains acetic acid, which raises the freezing point of water —preventing frost from forming!

Prevent car doors from freezing shut with cooking spray! Spritz cooking oil (corn oil-based) on the rubber seals around car doors & rub it in with a paper towel. The cooking spray prevents water from freezing onto the rubber

Fog-proof your windshield with shaving cream! Spray some shaving cream on the inside of your windshield & wipe it off with paper towels, leaving no smears. Shaving cream has many of the same ingredients found in commercial defoggers.

De-ice your lock in seconds with hand sanitizer! Just put some hand sanitizer gel on the key & the lock and voila ….. problems solved!

Comments

Helpful Hints For Winter driving… — 14 Comments

  1. Dude–did you go away and let Martha Stewart guest-host your blog again?

  2. Me- No, I got that from a buddy up in Alaska, and he said they ALL work, so I figured what the hell, I didn’t have anything else to post… 🙂

    Fuzzy- You’re welcome!

  3. While waxing the headlights, do the windshield too.
    Works well.
    You have to wax the windshield more often then the headlights as the wipers remove the wax.

  4. Linda- No fair… 😛

    Jon- I also got an email on that. I’ve never done that…

    Supi- You’re welcome!

  5. And never park in one place for very long! A rolling car gathers no moss. I had no moss on my car this week. None at all! 😉

  6. Newb, whoever said, “A rolling car gathers no moss”, never lived in the Northwest in winter. No matter how fast you move, everything grows moss up here.

    heh

  7. Newb- you made it back in one piece, that’s what counts!

    TOL- Good point…

    DB- I did that one last night. 🙂

  8. LMAO @ Me’s comment!

    Daddy taught me to keep a mini torch handy for de-icing the key holes. Hand sanitizer would probably be cheaper though.

    Gonna fix the husband a bottle of vinegar water to put on his windshield tomorrow night & see if that works. He has no heat in the van, so de-icing the windshield takes him awhile (Long story).

  9. Don’t use your parking brake if the vehicle will be sitting long. You will find it hard to drive when the rear wheels won’t roll. They do freeze. If you are truly worried, wheel blocks are cheap.

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