Preparing your car for winter season properly is really important when it comes to making sure your car functions properly and that you and others are kept as safe as possible. Here are some tips on what you can do to prepare yourself and your car for Winter!

Get Your Car Serviced

Getting your car serviced just before winter is one of the most important aspects to keeping your car up and running all winter. Making sure nothing is wrong with your car before winter arrives can save you from an unpleasant surprise. Get your car serviced, get your car ready for the frosty temperatures!

Check Your Battery

Your battery is much more likely to struggle during winter, mainly due to you stressing your car much more by using the heating, the radio and the car having to start in cold tempertures constantly. We have made a seperate article on how you can save your car battery and make sure it does not die on you when you need it most!

Checking your battery, making sure it is in good condition, checking for any corrosion or damage is very important. If you are worried about your car battery struggling throughout winter or you think it might not make it, change your car battery or buy a battery charger (We have a huge selection available in store and online!)

Make sure you have enough engine coolant/antifreeze

Having enough antifreeze is often overlooked and forgotten about, check that you have enough antifreeze, this will prevent your engine coolant from freezing during low temperatures. Antifreeze is a very important aspect of your car it not only helps your engine coolant from freezing during winter but also stops it from boiling during summer.

Check the condition of your tyres

Tyres are huge when it comes to driving safer during winter, snow and ice can be difficult obsticles to overcome, having your car tyres in bad condition will only make it much more difficult to tackle the winter season. If your tyres are in poor condition or could use a change, buy new tyres, better do it before it's too late!

Clean Your Lights

Making sure your lights are clean from any debris and dirt is very important, of course the dirtier the your lights the less you will see in the dark and the dimmer they will be for other people to see. Making sure your lights are cleaned is very important and is not very hard to do, you can just wipe your lights with a a wipe and some water or if you have tougher marks or dirt on your lights you can clean it with toothpaste, scrubbing until the marks go away.

Wash your windscreen and wipers

Make sure you clean your windscreen and wipers before winter, your windscreen will mist up and it will be much harder to see through your windscreen, grime and other dirt collects on the windscreen wiping it down and cleaning it properly will make it much easier for you to see and it can stop it from fogging up as much!

Wipers are also very important, they can collect leafs and other debris you don't want wiping on your windscreen, make sure to clean both your wipers and windscreen regularly.

Following the advice mentioned will drastically help you and your car defeat the winter season and cold weather!