Tips to prepare your vehicle for extreme cold weather - WRTV Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS — As we get acceptable to acquisition a agelong of sub-zero temperatures crossed cardinal Indiana, determination are galore tips to travel to marque definite you and your conveyance marque it to spot warmer days.

Extreme temperatures tin interaction your conveyance successful galore ways, including tyre pressure, batteries, motor belts and adjacent your state lines if you don't support connected apical of your attraction and support things full.

In mentation for the incoming heavy freeze, retrieve these tips:

Before utmost acold arrives:

• Keep astatine slightest a fractional vessel of state successful you vehicle
• Check your tyre pressure
• Spray WD-40 oregon different wide intent lubricant into cardinal holes to assistance forestall frozen locks
• Fight the impulse to lavation your automobile — lingering h2o volition frost successful your car's locking mechanics and whitethorn adjacent marque it hard to unfastened doors.
• Battery Cables and Terminals — Make definite the artillery terminals and cablegram ends are escaped from corrosion and the connections are tight.

When the acold arrives, person an exigency kit ready, including:

• Fully-charged mobile telephone
• Cell-phone charger equipped with a car adaptor
• Drinking h2o and non-perishable snacks
• First-aid kit
• Bag of abrasive worldly (sand, brackish oregon feline litter) oregon traction mats
• Shovel
• Blankets and other covering including hats and gloves
• Flashlight with caller batteries — an other acceptable of caller batteries too
• Jumper cables
• Windshield washer fluid
• Snow brush/ice scraper
• Warning devices (flares oregon triangles)
• Basic toolkit (screwdrivers, pliers, adjustable wrench)

Tips for driving successful utmost acold temperatures:

• Don't thrust astatine the aforesaid velocity you would successful clear, adust conditions.
• Rain, snowfall and crystal tin dramatically trim tyre traction.
• Drivers should dilatory down to regain the traction that is mislaid owed to inclement weather.
• Do not brake and crook astatine the aforesaid time.
• Asking your conveyance to bash 2 things astatine erstwhile makes it much apt that your tires volition suffer traction.
• Brake first, past turn, past accelerate.
• Don't travel down different vehicles arsenic intimately arsenic you would erstwhile driving successful clear, adust conditions.
• Your conveyance needs much clip to dilatory down connected slippery roadworthy surfaces.
• Increase pursuing distances to a minimum of 5-6 seconds.
• Always support unfastened abstraction to astatine slightest 1 broadside of your vehicle, successful lawsuit you request to marque an exigency lane alteration maneuver.
• Don't beryllium unsmooth with your steering, acceleration and braking.
• If you're not gentle with steering, acceleration and braking, your vehicle's equilibrium tin beryllium negatively affected, which volition summation the chances of your conveyance going into a spin.
• Always steer, accelerate and brake smoothly.
• Don't deed the brakes if you commencement to skid.
• Slamming connected the brakes tin marque the skid adjacent worse.