Comments on: The Ultimate Winter Car Survival Kit Checklist https://www.goldeagle.com/tips-tools/ultimate-winter-car-survival-kit-checklist/ Thu, 09 Jan 2020 15:12:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8 By: Shewoman https://www.goldeagle.com/tips-tools/ultimate-winter-car-survival-kit-checklist/#comment-473416 Thu, 09 Jan 2020 15:12:11 +0000 https://www.goldeagle.com/?p=13489#comment-473416 In reply to K.

Gary.. this female driving would put your ass in the ditch. Grow up.

]]> By: K https://www.goldeagle.com/tips-tools/ultimate-winter-car-survival-kit-checklist/#comment-411883 Tue, 05 Nov 2019 01:06:26 +0000 https://www.goldeagle.com/?p=13489#comment-411883 1) Don’t listen to Gary Lee. He’s a douche.
2) See point number one.

]]> By: Gary Lee and Daisy https://www.goldeagle.com/tips-tools/ultimate-winter-car-survival-kit-checklist/#comment-90490 Sat, 09 Feb 2019 23:06:45 +0000 https://www.goldeagle.com/?p=13489#comment-90490 1) Ice scraper: Buy the very best and they will keep it’s “edge” and be very hard to break. Sharpen the edge every September.
2) Blanket: Get a sleeping bag instead. Or a poly filled bedspread & small pillow.
3) Kitty litter: NO, buy SAFE PAW instead. Safe for pets, melts ice at all temps and adds traction to a surface.
4) Road Flares: Nice but they don’t last that long. Get many. Scared to use flares? Then stay home. Triangles are hard to see in a snow storm, that’s if you’re still along the highway and not in some ditch. A marine flare gun works wonders!
5) Flash light: Use LED’s. BRIGHT. Small enough to keep on your person to keep the batteries WARM.
6) Cables: Use them to start YOUR car. Don’t use them to start other cars. Tell ’em you don’t have any. They can damage your battery when trying to start other cars!
7) First Aid: BURN medications, gauze, tape, staples, large bandages, eye wash, splints, pain meds and a First Aid Kit for your dog, too! ONE TOOL KIT FOR EACH PERSON IN THE CAR.
8) Maps. Females can’t read maps or drive a 4-speed. GPS, etc.require batteries. MAPS DO NOT! See Flash Light.
9) Spare tire/tools: FULL SIZE TIRE. Practice in JULY, not in January at -20! Pepper Spray – for animals and people. Those donut spares are not good in the winter/ice! NEW spare tire – 100% tread – All Weather.
10) Others: Military entrenching tool (shovel), police strength zip ties, Rain-X -22 degree windshield washer fluid,
50-50 anti-freeze, a 2-gallon container of gas, 1 gal WATER/Gatorade, Snack Bars, wool hats, gloves – ND – MATCHES. You might have to start a fire to say warm. A basketball whistle to let others know where you are.

Strange that All Season/Snow tires aren’t mentioned. Neither are safe tires with lots of thread left. QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY. Hard things that don’t freeze in the trunk, rest inside the car in a bag that’s strapped to a seat – even these things can fly around inside during a crash and KILL you.

Have a travel bag already to do. Toss it in the car and off you go. New Yorkers leave Manhattan at 5pm on Fridays and drive 2 to 4 hours to one of the ski areas. Snow storms never stopped us, not even once! We drive pretty fast and are usually ahead of the snowplows. Gotta go skiing!
Keep female drivers off the roads – don’t allow them to drive – you drive! In the winter you can find you and your car way off into the trees or down some steep ravine from just one skid. They might not find you for a day or 2. If yer lucky. If you own a gun, put it in the car, too. Ya never knows.

Lots of these things can stay home in the summer. Winter stuff goes in your car starting in November. These are not a lot of things. Get the stuff a little at a time during the summer. MAKE SURE YOUR TIRES HAVE AT LEAST 80% OF THE TREAD LEFT! Tires are cheap. Really.

A driving tip in learned in Germany: On an icy road it might take some time to stop. Sliding friction is a lot less than rolling friction. No? Let your car drive along an icy road, then put on the brakes. Started to speed up, huh?
Trick: You find yourself slowly sliding into the car stopped ahead of you? Hit the brakes and turn the front wheels all the way to whatever direction you want to do. Let the car slide to almost 20 feet from the car in front – then TAKE THE BRAKES OFF and let the car turn to one side or the other all by itself. Zip, it turns all by itself. Practice on a slippery road or parking lot and you’ll see. Might save a fender bender with YOU at fault from hitting the car ahead of you. Really! Get it down pat and you can brake, slide then zip to one side or another anyplace like turning off street or highway into a parking lot, gas station or whatever. European drivers are SO MUCH BETTER DRIVERS IN ALL WEATHER than 90% of American will ever be. Learn from them.

Just sayin’ ….

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