With winter now being right round the corner, it is important to ensure that our vehicle is in top shape to ensure our safety, right through the winter. If we neglect our cars during winter, this can lead to bigger problems which may even lead to damaging the car and most importantly, it might become a risk to our safety.
There are a lot of ways in which we can maintain our cars through the winter, but these five tips are few of the very important steps that can be taken in this regard. Let us look at these five small steps that we can take to ensure that our car is prepared to take on the winter, with confidence.
1. Check Your Battery Health:
Batteries have a tough time retaining their charge during winters and if the battery is not in good health, it may leave you stranded. To ensure that your battery is in good shape, have a computerized gravity check performed at the workshop and if the report suggests, the battery might have to be replaced. Also, we need to ensure that the battery water levels do not drop.
2. Check Your Coolant Levels:
Coolant or anti-freeze is a very important fluid for the engine. While it maintains a cool temperature for the engine, it does not freeze in harsh winter conditions and continues doing its work effectively. In winters, we need to ensure that the coolant levels are up to the mark at all times, because if it goes low and you continue driving with low coolant, it may prove to be bad for the engine health.
3. Check Your Tire Health:
In winters, it is very important to ensure that the tires of our car are in top shape. If the tires are worn out, it might result in our car losing control and finally in an unfortunate accident. In the regions that receive snowfall, this becomes even more important because on snow we need complete grip at all times. But, also in regions that do not receive snowfall, while they do have fairly harsh winters, tire health is important because sometimes even water and dew on the ground becomes ice overnight and while driving over such surface, we do need grip.
4. Wiper Blades Should Be In Good Shape:
Overnight the temperature drops during winters and that leads to the formation of dew over your car, especially when it stands outside, without a shelter. In the regions receiving harsh winters, this issue becomes much more important owing to snowfall. If your wiper blades are in bad shape during winters and when you use the wipers to wipe off the dew or snow that might have been accumulated on your windshield, they will not do the job. This will lead to you having an unclear view of the road while driving which can be very dangerous.
5. Ensure That All The Lights Of Your Vehicle Are Working:
Fog and unclear atmosphere is something that we associate with winters. In such conditions it is very important for you to be able to view the road and all that is present on the road, with clarity, and at the same time, it is important that other people can also see your car, preventing accidents. Thus, it is important that your headlights and fog lights work, so that you can have a clear view of the road, despite the unclear atmosphere. It is also important that your hazard lights and rear lights work so that people behind you can also take note of your car.
It is very important to follow these tips to ensure a safe motoring experience for yourself and for others as well.
