{"id":92,"date":"2004-12-20T20:42:13","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T01:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/?p=92"},"modified":"2007-01-30T11:53:35","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T15:53:35","slug":"winter-driving-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2004\/12\/20\/winter-driving-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Driving Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WRC\"It’s cold, the thermometer I keep in my kitchen said it was -15 Co<\/sup> outside last night and 15Co<\/sup> inside. The water line to my toilet is frozen because I think it might actually cover every inch of my house’s outside wall. So with all this winter weather out there I thought I’d share my tips for winter driving.<\/p>\n

    \"WRC\"<\/p>\n
  1. All season tires = no season tires.<\/strong> With the cheap foreign labour now available to North America, winter tires and black steal rims are cheaper and easier than you’d think.<\/li>\n
  2. Keep at least half a tank of gas in you’re tank, no matter what the size.<\/strong> The condensation in the empty tank can freeze and plug-up the fuel line. If this does happen to you either get the car into a warm place or get someone to fill up an emergency can of gas for you and bring it back to you inside the warm car (with a window cracked, and the lid secured, and the safest driving they’ve ever done). This happened to my sister last week and she had to get a tow to Canadian Tire and wait for three hours to have them simply start the car and give it back to her. [[Three years later it looks like this might have more to do with a bad starter than fuel – or my sister]]<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. \"WRC\"Ice scrapers, a shovel, washer fluid, oil, a blanket, food etc.<\/strong> are all important to keep in your car.<\/li>\n
  4. Make sure those windshield wipers are OK.<\/strong> I like to up-size my wipers, as long as they don’t touch when down they’ll be fine. That way you’re not peering around a frame of salt to see traffic lights.<\/li>\n
  5. Make sure that your coolant is toped up<\/strong> – for the most part your engine should be OK, but you want that heat inside the car!<\/li>\n
  6. \"WRC\"Be sure that your headlights are useful.<\/strong> New bulbs aren’t that expensive, and you’ll feel that much safer once you can see that far down the road. I wonder how some manufactures Chry5ler<\/strike><\/em> can get away with selling such dim lights from the factory.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Ministry of Transportation Ontario has a good winter driving guide. It’s too bad the MTO isn’t very good with web site layout. Here it is: www.mto.gov.on.ca\/english\/safety\/winterdrive\/winterdrive.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It’s cold, the thermometer I keep in my kitchen said it was -15 Co outside last night and 15Co inside. The water line to my toilet is frozen because I think it might actually cover every inch of my house’s outside wall. So with all this winter weather out there I thought I’d share my… Continue Reading Winter Driving Tips<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}