Jul
31
2009
Aaa Tips to Combat the Cold Weather
Author: adminThe coming cold season brings a number of problems for car owners. Cars subject to frigid weather are prone to breakdown and malfunction. As a result, the American Automobile Association (AAA) has given motorists tips on how to avoid car accidents due to extreme weather conditions.
They have published in response to the increase in vehicle break our roads. In fact, the automobile club has received calls from emergency roadside assistance, which is twice what they were last year at this same season. All these requests for assistance, the club is the priority of the demands of motorists stranded on the roads or caught in the middle of traffic.
Since the number of motorists in their vehicles on the road, the association has published a guide to the automotive public. A major concern during the cold weather begins to start a car and a car on a cold, a good battery is necessary. Due to the decrease of temperature, power from a battery is also reduced. At zero degrees, from the battery power decreases by 35 percent and that is for a good battery. Thus, the batteries are defective or responsibilities for the car in cold weather. When the temperature drops to 20 degrees negative terminal of the battery is starting to be able to reduce by half. AAA advises motorists to have their battery to undergo a load test if more than three years.
AAA advises motorists to park their cars in a garage or a garage is not available, vehicle owners must pay their vehicles covered with canvas special park or in a manner that the cover will be protected from the wind. And keep the doors from freezing shut, AAA encourages motorists to put a bag of waste between the door and the frame. To prevent freezing of fuel due to extreme cold, even colder than the air from a fan blade of Volvo drivers should keep their fuel tanks at least half full.
The locks are also susceptible to frost, to avoid such accidents; lubricant be applied to isolate cold locks. If in case you forgot to lubricate the locks and freezes, heat the key to help melt the ice formed in the locks. Holding a plastic jug full of hot water against the spirit or the panel of the door lock also unlock the locks. Discard the hot water in the car is not recommended because the water was only after the freezing and not able to break the glass. And this is known, is not good at all.
In the case of bad weather, where snow-covered car and cars, the AAA recommends that drivers stay in the car from inside the vehicle will provide shelter against the cold and is also the location of the car much easier. Snowbound drivers can start their engines idling and save enough to keep warm. The race car engines means that the exhaust gases are produced and it is therefore important to check that the pipe must not be blocked by snow. Emergency supplies would also be of great assistance to stranded motorists advised to keep their AAA cell car, boots, hats, gloves, blankets, a heating coffee, a light and reflection triangle.
The American Automobile Association also reminds drivers and motorists to drive carefully when a crane is about and give them a "brake." This will help crane operators do what is supposed to do with ease.