How to Prepare Your Car for Cold Weather

With harsh weather on the horizon, the experts at Meguiar’s and Prestone have compiled some super easy, cash-saving DIY tips to prep your car for the cold and poor driving conditions ahead!  

Mike Pennington, Global Director of Training and Consumer Relations at Meguiar’s, and Colin Dilley, VP of Technology at Prestone, have provided some tips below that will ensure your car is ready to brave the cold and is prepared to keep you safe.

Maximize Visibility

A key factor in maximizing visibility and safety during the winter months is to ensure that drivers can see and be seen. Take a moment to inspect your headlights and taillights. To restore these surfaces and increase optical clarity, use Meguiar’s® Two Step Headlight Restoration Kit. It is a great solution for cleaning your plastic headlights and keeping them looking like new during those chilly months.

Keep Your Windshield Clear

To keep your windshield clear and free of ice build-up, fill your washer fluid reservoir with Prestone® De-Icerwindshield washer fluid. It helps remove light ice/frost and protects windshields from deep freezes up to -27⁰F/-32⁰C. For year-round protection, top off your windshield washer fluid with Prestone® All Season 3-in-1.

Prevent Permanent Tire Damage

Special attention should be paid to wheel care as the winter months can cause unwanted permanent damage. If you have painted or clear coated wheels a great wheel cleaner to use would be Meguiar’s® Hot Rims Wheel and Tire Cleaner, and don’t forget to consider putting on a good coat of either Meguiar’s® Ultimate Fast Finish or Meguiar’s® Ultimate Liquid Wax to help offer protection, and help shed off dirt and debris quicker. Ultimately, using the right product on the right surface, and in the proper way will help to keep your wheels in great condition so make sure to clearly understand what type of wheels are on your vehicle.

Check Your Cooling System

Inspect your antifreeze/coolant to make sure it is free of debris and contaminants. If you notice an issue, flush and fill your system with a mixture of 50% concentrated antifreeze and 50% distilled water.  If your reservoir is low, top off with Prestone® 50/50 Prediluted Antifreeze/Coolant with patented Cor-Guard® corrosion inhibitors.  Prestone with Cor-Guard is five times more effective at protecting against corrosion than the leading branded competitor. Next, using a Prestone antifreeze tester, check the concentration of your antifreeze.  The ideal mixture is 50% antifreeze and 50% distilled water.  If the concentration is low, use Prestone® Concentrate Antifreeze/Coolant with Cor-Guard® to bring your fluid to a 50/50 level.

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How to cut a Dado on a Table Saw

Hi SawdustGirl Readers!  It’s Mindi again from MyLove2Create, and I have to say that this month’s theme of using a new joinery method has pushed me to conquer a fear that I have been avoiding for way too long… The Table Saw.  Dun dun dun!!! I am going to show you how to cut a […]

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Polaris 9650iQ Sport Robotic Pool Cleaner Review

Our new home has a pool! It’s crazy but true. We both grew up with swimming pools, but here in LA they aren’t as common as property and yards are much smaller. We’ve taken it upon ourselves to maintain our pool and the new Polaris 9650iQ Robotic Pool Cleaner has been a big help.

Maintaining a swimming pool is an easy task, but requires diligence and a bit of know-how when it comes to balancing the PH levels and chlorine. Regular brushing, skimming, and filter clearing are important, and the Polaris has proven to keep our pool clean the last few months.

Our backyard is full of trees—which we love, but they shed leaves, seeds, and berries, which eventually find their way into our pool. After a few days this debris sinks to the bottom and requires skimming to remove. With the Polaris setup and running, we’ve had to clear much less stuff and the bottom and sides of our pool are much cleaner. We still brush the pool regularly, but the Polaris also helps with keeping the surface clear of algae and dirt.

 

The Polaris 9650iQ Sport robotic pool cleaner is the only robotic pool cleaner with built-in Wi-Fi that allows it to be controlled through the iAquaLink app. You can set/edit schedules or literally control the cleaner like you would control an RC car. You can access and control the 9650iQ Sport from anywhere through your phone or tablet. The all-wheel drive Polaris climbs the walls with ease and is easy to remove and store when not in use.

There is no need for extra hoses that plug into your filter system. The Polaris is self-contained and the powered base station is plugged into a standard AC outlet and all debris is swept into the onboard basket and then dumped when you are finished cleaning.

The Polaris 9650iQ is really a must-have accessory for any pool owner and it’s saved us a ton of time and energy cleaning the pool. 

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Two Toned DIY Console Table

*This diy console table plan was edited to add instructions with illustrations of how to attach a tabletop using screws with washers and an extra large hole!   I built this console table using easy pocket hole screw construction in just a few hours.  Then used a combination of paint and stain to create a beautiful, […]

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How to Build a Cabinet Drawer the Easiest Way Possible

There are tons of different ways to build a cabinet drawer. You can get fancy with dovetails, box joints or locking rabbets. There are biscuits, loose tenons and pocket screws. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to build a cabinet drawer using the easiest possible method.  You don’t need any fancy tools to cut […]

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How to Skim Coat to Remove Wall Texture

Balancing time against money is always a factor when deciding whether to do something yourself or hire a professional. If you’ve been following my home remodels, you know I do a lot of skim coating. Smoothing wall texture can be a time consuming task. You can hire a professional to retexture walls for you.  OR you […]

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The Skilsaw Super Sawsquatch Worm Drive Saw

Skilsaw is amping up their worm drive saw lineup by adding the 16-5/16-Inch Magnesium Super Sawsquatch Worm Drive Saw. It features worm drive gearing, 15 Amp Dual-Field ^T motor and specially engineered 16-5/16-inch 32-tooth SKILSAW blade, the Super Sawsquatch delivers unmatched power and performance thanks to this incomparable engineering trifecta. 

With its all-magnesium construction, blade-left visibility and die-cast magnesium foot plate, Super Sawsquatch is more durable, lighter weight, and offers greater accuracy than any beam saw currently on the market. 

Featuring a 6-1/4-inch cutting capacity, Super Sawsquatch can power through most engineered lumber, 6X and beams in one pass. An electric brake increases jobsite productivity and an auxiliary handle is included for added support. The saw also comes with a stand for portability and storage.

When it comes to SKILSAW’s worm drive portfolio, size matters. SKILSAW’s lineup now includes 7-1/4-inch, 8-1/4-inch, 10-1/4-inch and 16-5/16-inch worm drive saws. Super Sawsquatch is priced competitively at $699 and will be available in March 2018.

To learn more about the 16-5/16-Inch Magnesium Super Sawsquatch Worm Drive Saw, model SPT70V-11, visit www.skilsaw.com.

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