TOP 10 WINTER TIPS
Windows down, sunglasses on and tunes blasting out the speakers, isn’t driving in the summer great? The roads are dry, the days are long and the biggest worry for most of us is what beach to go to. But as those leaves begin to fall, and we dig out our winter wardrobe, a little van prep can go a long way in avoiding having to spend the night stuck on the hard shoulder waiting for the AA man to track you down in the snow. Brrr! Doesn’t sound appealing? Listen up then....
1. CHECK YOUR BATTERY
The majority of ‘failures to proceed’ in winter are down to battery failure. It’s a part you might not give a lot of thought to, but when it stops working it’s suddenly the most important part of the whole car! And they don’t last forever – it’s common to replace a battery after around three years, and after four or five years they’ll most likely be getting seriously unreliable. This will be all the more noticeable in winter, because winter driving puts a lot more demand on the battery; think about it, on a cold and frosty morning you’re probably going
