A Few Helpful Winter Hints

[Sir William Marcus]

Here are some helpful hints that could make your winters easier to deal with ...

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 it's 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 melting point of water---preventing water from freezing!


Prevent car doors from freezing shut with cooking spray! Spritz cooking oil on the rubber seals around car doors & rub it in with a paper towel.  The cooking spray prevents water from melting into the rubber.


Fog-proof your windshield with shaving cream! Spray some shaving cream on the inside of your windshield & wipe if off with paper towels. 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 & the problems solved! Hope these hints help even just one time

[anne of oaktower]

Great information!  Thank you so much for sharing

And...WOW! That snow-monster swallowed his car!!! 

[Charlotte Rowan]

I'm going to have to try that vinegar thing. I hate scraping my windows! Unfortunately, I don't think it will help if we get a big snow!

[Lady Christina de Pond]

definately want to try the vinagar thing but i think your out of luck if your cars that deep in snow. I might dig it out come april

[Butch]

You can also use that shaving cream trick on your bathroom mirrors.  Be sure you use the lather kind, and not the gel kind.

[Rapier Half-Wit]

Global warming my weed puller. (beat you to it. I used 'weed puller' before the system could. I'm such a smart weed puller.) 

[Noble Dreg]

"Fumble" winter.   

[redkimba]

I tried the vinegar trick this morning.  My windshield had iced up just a little bit so I sprayed it with the mixture to see if it would help.  It did!

Will try it next time before the cold stuff hits.

[ladylissame]

Here is another trick. Turn on your headlights before starting your car. It will make you car easier to start because hte headlights warm up the battery (literally). This was told to me by an auto shop employee.

[Gauwyn of Bracknell]

it's -12 here, even the bottle of vinegar is frozen 

[Anna Iram]

I live in Florida, but even we are having winter sleet, and some snow. I got in my car yesterday and my rearview mirror temp was flashing an "ice" warning at me. I didn't even know it did that!

So in that spirit here's a laugh:

[LadyShadow]

Isnt that the truth.

[Butch]

Anna, you need to move to the Midwest and learn "Cold Weather Appreciation".  My wife's car (Pont Torrent) also has that rearview temp thingee that displays ICE.  Meh.  The white stuff on the ground makes that a moot point.

[Anna Iram]

Thanks but nooo thanks!   Y'all can just post pics for us Floridians while we enjoy our snowfall from afar.

*Thinking of contacting Saturn and asking them to change my display to the daily beach report.*  

[LordEustace]

i'm gonna wrap some steaks in aluminum foil and place them on my car's motor one day just to see if it will cook them.