preparing your car for winter driving

Posted on: 12 January 2016

Every year your heating and cooling bills keep increasing and you're at your wits end. Thankfully, you've heard of people who utilize various efficiency-boosting methods, such as tinting their windows and growing vegetation around their home. Choosing between these options requires understanding their benefits and whether or not they suit your home's needs. Why People Choose Tinting Adding a tint to your home's windows has the potential of eliminating nearly 99% of all UV light and keeps heat from transferring between the inside and outside of your home.
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Posted on: 11 January 2016

Winter conditions can bring a lot hazards when driving over the highways. One of the worst hazards is objects like frozen ice getting kicked up by vehicles in front of you. The frozen ice can hit your grill and air conditioning condenser on the front of your truck. Ice hitting your air conditioning condenser can bend and damage the fins on the slots in the unit. Bent fins will close the space between the cooling slots on the condenser, and bent fins won't allow the air to flow through the condenser to cool down heated coolant fluid.
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Posted on: 8 January 2016

It's difficult to think of a part of your vehicle that plays more of a pivotal role in your safety than your brakes. As such, it's important to be vigilant about having worn-out brake components repaired or replaced before they reach the point at which they limit your ability to safely control your vehicle. While brakes can provide a number of visual clues that identify their overall health, it's also easy to discern that you have a brake issue without climbing out of your driver's seat.
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Posted on: 8 January 2016

Even for drivers who are careful to perform regular maintenance on their vehicles, brakes can be one of the easiest parts to overlook if you are not experiencing any problems. However, there are several ways you could be causing damage to your brakes without even realizing it. Here are three habits you should avoid that your brakes will thank you for. Riding the Brakes Downhill Many drivers attempt to gain more control over their vehicle when driving downhill by gently engaging the brakes until they are back on flat road.
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