Avoid hassles by equipping your car with useful gadgets and following these tips
For many of us, a car is a truly indispensable asset: from the daily commute to school or work, to road trips and much more, it's difficult to imagine life without having a vehicle to use.
Given this, it is best to be prepared should some problem arise with your car. Read on to discover some tips on how best to equip and treat your car.
If you usually park your car in the street, pay attention to the time of year (or rather, where the sun rises and sets), and make sure you position your vehicle so that the windscreen gets the sunlight first as dawn breaks. This way, you will avoid some of the many problems that often happen in winter.
Cars these days almost always have a remote control, but the set of keys we get at the time of purchase also includes traditional keys. It is always best to keep these separate from the set that is used every day - just in case we lose daily set.
There are now many compact, hand-operated vacuum cleaners available that are designed specifically for cars. In the absence on of these, it is still very useful to have a small vacuum cleaner in the car (like one of those used for sofas, armchairs or tables at home).
Don't forget how useful an old sock can be: in the winter, it can protect your wipers from freezing so they don't stick to the windshield.
... and old socks are also useful alternative to of rags and soft cloths to clean the car's headlights when washing your vehicle.
How annoying is it to be driving with the sun in your eyes? The sunshield is not always able to cover the area we would like it to, but there are sunshield models that are extendable. Alternatively, you can extend your sunshield using a piece of cardboard and some elastic bands.
The most useful place to keep parking tickets or any other scraps of paper is the slot where you insert the CDs in the stereo, right?
Which of these tips will you consider adopting?
