Getting Your Car Ready for Spring! — 5 Easy Tips

More focus is generally applied to preparing a car for winter weather driving.  However, it is equally as important to focus on getting your car ready for spring!  In this article, I’m going to give you a few useful tips that you can use to give your car some spring TLC.

1) For starters, take your car to the car wash and get a nice undercarriage wash.  If there’s ever a time to shell the bucks and get the supremo wash, this would be the best time for it.  If you have been driving your car where roads get salted, an undercarriage wash will remove that salt caked under wheel wells and on all of that metal under your car.  Salt build-up left on the bottom of your car will eat away at the undercarriage like termites in a dead tree and leave your car prone to rusting.  If you really want to go the extra mile, go to a car wash that sprays a rust inhibitor.  While you’re at the car wash, take five minutes to vacuum the winter crud out your car! Continue reading

Distracted Driving and High-Tech Car Safety Concerns: Dashboard Touch Screens

No matter how cool a car may be, safety is always something to be taken into consideration.  A good portion of all car crashes originate simply from distracted driving.  The forefather of distracted driving has always been food.  Not only can Big Macs kill your heart, but that delicious Big Mac sauce dripping all over your lap can send you hurling over a cliff.  Another agent of death that began to steal the attention of drivers was the cell-phone.  All it takes is one texted “lol” while driving to cause you to inadvertently crash into a moose that otherwise could have been avoided.  Nowadays, more and more cars are being outfitted with touch screen controls on dashboards.  Are touch screens in cars the next death omen for distracted drivers? Continue reading

Keeping Your Car Allergy Free

Spring is finally here!  You’ve made it through another winter having scraped ice off your car windows, braved the dangers of winter-driving and all of the other miseries associated with Mr. Jack Frost.  It’s time that you finally get to ditch that mini shovel and bag of kitty litter in your trunk.  You can’t help but feel victorious.  But alas, spring yields its own unpleasantries:  It’s allergy season!  Because this past winter was unusually warm in many areas,  everything has bloomed early and allergens are swarming the air in record highs.  If you are anything like me, then allergies are hitting you like the plague.  It’s time to learn how to easily make your car allergy free. Continue reading