Going By Car To Your Ski Holiday? Dont Waste Cash – Proper Winter Motoring Kit Neednt Cost In The Long Run
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If you’re Going by Car to a Ski Vacation, you’ll save yourself a potential nightmare if you ensure you and your car are properly prepared and kitted out. That doesn’t mean making the most popular mistake british car owners make.
Many people just go and get a set of snow chains, and the vast majority of them are never even put on. That’s a fact actually admitted to me by a Snow Chain Importer. Over seventy percent of them are never used, because, when driving conditions are bad enough to fit snow chains, they’re too bad for the average british driver to keep going.
The most interesting fact is that nobody thinks about fitting winter tyres (also known as Mud and Snow Tyres). You can get these without spikes, and they are perfectly lawful for use on UK roads. Unlike snow chains, winter tyres will provide a real aid to your winter motoring, they’ll make it much easier to drive on snow covered main & minor roads, and they’ll also drastically increase your grip in very wet conditions, cutting out or drastically reducing aquaplaning.
All in all Winter tyres will do a lot for you on the whole of your journey to your ski holiday. Yes they do cost quite a lot more than a set of snow chains, but they’ll actually do something for you. They’ll increase your safety and comfort at home and abroad, whereas snow chains will do nothing. In addition remember that when you’re driving on winter tyres, you’re not using up your summer tyres. So, if you keep your car for a few years you’ll actually have a zero cost to your safer & less stressful winter driving.
Another thing you can do to improve your winter driving safety and comfort is to put on Silicone Wiper Blades. These resist extreme temperatures that would easily decimate rubber Car wiper blades. Alsothey don’t stick to your windscreen when it freezes. Silicone Wiper Blades, in point of fact cost less than premium branded rubber Car wiper blades, they can be used all year round and have a life of three to five times the life of even the very best rubber Car wiper blades. So, like Winter Tyres, this is an improvement you can make which won’t cost you overall. In point of fact, unlike winter tyres, fitting Silicone Wiper Blades will actively save you money!
Silicone Windscreen Wiper Blades also withstand Ozone, Ultra Violet and Solvents, all of which destroy the life of rubber Windscreen wiper blades. Remember that in alpine areas there’s a lot of ultra violet light and you need to use a lot of solvent in the screen wash bottle in order to prevent it freezing.
To get the ultimate in cold weather performance you should look for silicone Flatblade wipers, because these don’t have any joints to freeze or seize, so they’ll give you even more flexibility & clean wiping on those critical cold dark starts.
So there you have it. Two great items which will make your ski holiday journey, and the rest of your winter driving both safer & more comfortable, and the good news is that, overall, they needn’t add a penny to your motoring budget over the life of your vehicle.