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Four Winter-Vehicular-Related Tips That Should Be Obvious Yet Some People Need To Learn The Hard Way

  • do not hold your car keys between your teeth while fiddling in your bag or attempting to select the right one: those puppies are METAL and your teeth will hate you for hours
  • do not rely on cruise control through white-out conditions: you are an idiot
  • do not believe that the car only needs to warm up for two minutes and you dont really need to scrape the windshield: you will be rendered virtually blind as the windshield fogs and then ices over a block away from home
  • do not keep your foot hard on the gas while your tires keep spinning: more speed will not help in a low friction environment
02 DEC
2004

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Ah, come on. Live dangerously.

Oh come now. If you spin your wheels long enough, you'll eventually hit pavement.

Of course, getting your car out of the quickly freezing pond of water they generated is more of a trick, but it'll also solve the problem until spring anyway.

Funny thing that, your treads actually fill with ice long before friction gets high enough to melt anything. Trust me on this one.

Oh, and are you aware that your list of three tips actually contains four items?

bah

I'm so not looking forward to the first snow fall here.

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