Winterizing Tip #5: Heat in your car is important for more than comfort this Wonder Lake winter

You’re tough. You can take everything a Wonder Lake winter can throw at you. So, if the heater in your car isn’t as effective as it once was, so what? You’ll keep your coat cinched up around your neck, keep your gloves on and weather through the cold weather. But the heat in your car isn’t just about comfort.

Of course, your car’s heater is also about keeping you warm as the next Wonder Lake winter approaches. Just because you can take the cold doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have your car heated inside when it’s blustering cold outside.

The car heater, however, does more than fill your vehicle with the warming comfort of heated air. It also works to keep your windshield clear.

Have you ever come out to your car on a cold morning, scraped the frost off the windshield and, by the time you get in the car, the windshield is frosting up again?

Sometimes, you’ll scrape the frost from the outside of the windshield only to find that frost has formed on the inside of the windshield, too. You can try to scrape that frost from the inside of the windshield but somehow it doesn’t work right. The scraper isn’t shaped properly for concave shape of the windshield’s inside.

What you require is a heater that, when set to defroster, warms the windshield and clears away the frost.

At other times, on really cold days, ice will build up on the windshield as you drive. You’ll also find it building up on the wiper blades. The defrosters can help respond to ice buildup, too.

On the other hand, you will find that, if you keep the defroster on too long, it will dry mist-filled with road salt as you drive. You’ll wind up with a haze of road salt on your windshield that is difficult, if not impossible, to see through.

Still, your car’s heater will provide comfort where the cold can even cause pain. Imagine a really cold day when you’ve been outside of your Wonder Lake home clearing the driveway. You get in the car with feet that are turning blue inside your snow boots. Turn the heater so it’s blowing down and it may help dry and warm your feet while warding off frostbite.

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