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How To Prepare Your Car For Winter

November 6, 2007 by Simon

The guys over at AutoAnything was kind enough to send me some tips on how to prepare your car for winter:

Tip 1:
Whether picking up your kids from football practice or heading home from a November hunt, muddy cleats and stained camos can destroy your upholstery. An ideal way to defend your interior is with Scotchgard or another stain-repellent treatment. For a stronger layer of defense, pick up some all-weather floor liners and seat covers.

Tip 2:
Keeping the effects of Old Man Winter at bay can be a tough job. Applying a layer of wax on top of newly cleaned paint will help keep dead leaves, road muck and more from scarring your finish.

This is a tip from us at MilesGallon.com: Remember to put on your snow tires before it gets slippery in case you live in an area with freezing winter weather.

And finally a tip from one of our newsletter subscibers: Check the status of the traffic light far in advance and slow down in case you see you’ll have to stop anyway.

This will help you in two ways:

1. In case you finally have to stop you got off the accelerator earlier thus you used less fuel.

2. Often if you slow down the status of the light will change before you reach it, thus saving your from a full stop. This saves even more fuel as you will not have to accelerate from a standstill.

Dedicated to improving your fuel economy,

Simon Byholm
MilesGallon.com