How do you prepare your car for winter?

[Daox]

Image from pixabay.

For most of us, its starting to cool off and that means taking care of a few things before it gets too cold and uncomfortable to be doing car work.

Here are a few things I do:

1) For me personally I like to get an oil change in before its obnoxiously cold. I do have a garage and I can heat it up, but I just prefer not to. I just did one this past weekend on my wife's car. My car is up next.

2) Check windshield wipers. I actually run winter blades year round as I find they work pretty good. But, I don't like changing them when its 10F outside... So, I grab a set and throw them on before hand when they need to be replaced.

3) Winter tires. These I usually wait until near the first snow fall. If I know they're going to salt the roads, I'll put them on earlier as I don't like cleaning my summer wheels up that much.

4) Throw the window scraper back in the car.

5) Get my block heater setup ready to go. This really is only a 'winter' style extension cord, one that stays flexible in the cold, and a timer that I setup. An alternative to the timer is one of those wireless Christmas light switches. I just push the button on the remote from inside about 1-2 hours before leaving.


So, what do you guys to prepare your cars for winter?

[deleted user]

Nothing more than a pressure washer cleaning at the end of the season or earlier after a salt event on the roads.
I use rain-x and clean the wiper blades thoroughly when I wash the car, but I rode a bike 850 miles in January here.

I drain the hose after a car wash, the faucet is inside the garage so it never freezes.


regards
mech

[alex16]

Throw my scraper in the car, fresh rain X, fresh plasti dip the front, plasti dipping the rear tire wells, top off washer fluid with -20 rain x, change oil, remember to order second pair of artic generals for complete set, wd40 the engine compartment, order block heater.

[inuvik]

Wear a jacket! Never even freezes here on the balmy Southern Oregon Coast!

[Heffu]

I already have block heater and interior heater installed, still need to change winter tires.
Friend of mine also wants to wash and wax my car with some good stuff.

[cyclopathic]

Windshield cover?
Http://www.walmart.com/ip/Classic-Ac...Cover/14493327

[MetroMPG]

Wear a jacket! Never even freezes here on the balmy Southern Oregon Coast!

Oh shut up.

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I sometimes buy heavy clear plastic and cover the front carpeting to keep the salt away from it. I tuck the plastic under the trim pieces around the edges, and use short stainless screws twisted into the carpet to tack it down in a few spots.

[laceygirl]

So glad we don't have to content with road salt, but here in Oz, you never buy a car that's been on the coast near an ocean... Salt air will corrode a car faster than anything....

I just keep mine parked in the garage over winter, give it plenty of time to warm up before I drive it... It already has anti freeze in the radiator I think.... We don't get snow here, but I'm close to snow and the mountains, so we get lots of cold winds.... :-(

[deleted user]

I like the way cold winds get the bugs outta my face LG.

regards
mech

[cyclopathic]

I like the way cold winds get the bugs outta my face LG.

regards
mech

Does it ever snows were you are at?