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Helpful Winter Tips for Your Car in St. Louis, MO

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Real Estate Agent with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Select Properties-St. Louis Missouri MO Salesperson#2004006871

Helpful Winter Tips for Your Car in St. Louis, MOwinter driving by Ann Hayden agent Wildwood, MO real estate needs www.selectann.com

Keep headlights clear with car wax.  Apply regular car wax to the headlights.   The wax contains water repellents preventing the messy winter mixture from building up on your lights.  This should lasts 6 weeks. 
 
Ice-proof car windows with household vinegar.  If frost is on the way, fill a spray bottle with three parts vinegar to one part water and spray the soloution on all your windows the night before.  In the morning, they will be clear.  Vinegar has acetic acid in it.  This acid prevents the water from freezing! 
 
Car doors sticking shut?  Prevent the problem with cooking spray.  Spray the canned cooking oil on the rubber seals around car doors then rub with a paper towel.  The cooking spray keeps the water from melting into the rubber.
 
De-ice your door locks with hand sanitizer.  Apply the gel to the key and the lock.  Now the problem is solved.

Squeaky wipers?  Apply rubbing alcohol or ammonia to the wipers with a cloth or paper towel.  Now your streaking and squeaking wipers transform to nearly perfect clarity and quite.

As always, be careful on the road in St. Louis, Missouri and surrounding areas.

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Ruth Vogt
Fairway Independent Mortgage, LLS. Equal Housing Opportunity. Regulated by the Division of Real Estate. - Colorado Springs, CO
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Ann, All very interesting tips that I hadn't heard of before. Especially the hand sanitier one! thanks!

Jan 11, 2010 03:21 PM
Ann Hayden 636-399-7544
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Select Properties-St. Louis Missouri - Des Peres, MO
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Ruth,

I have not tried them all yet but they seem to make sense...

Ann

Jan 11, 2010 03:28 PM
Maria Morton
Platinum Realty - Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Real Estate 816-560-3758

Ann, these are great tips! Like Ruth, I had not heard some of them before tonight. Thanks!

Jan 11, 2010 05:15 PM
Andrea Swiedler
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices New England Properties - New Milford, CT
Realtor, Southern Litchfield County CT

Ann, I never knew these things. The vinegar thing is really cool. Well, all of your suggestions are fantastic! I will give these a try for sure. Thank you!

Jan 11, 2010 09:33 PM
Ann Hayden 636-399-7544
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Maria,

You are welcome!  I have tried a few of them...

Ann

Jan 12, 2010 02:48 AM
Mary Douglas
United Country Ponderosa Realty, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado - Red Feather Lakes, CO
REALTOR, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado

Those are very nifty tips Ann!  I didn't know about the sanitizer and the locks!  I could have used that when my car door froze shut at work last month...no wait, the sanitizer was in the car LOL  Great list!

Jan 12, 2010 06:26 AM
Tony & Darcy Cannon
Aubrey and Associates Realty - Layton, UT
The C Team

Ann, great tips for everyone that lives in Snowy areas!  Great post!

Jan 12, 2010 07:22 AM
April Hayden-Munson
Brookfield, WI
Brookfield Wisconsin Real Estate

Hi Ann - Let's dream about driving west - to about San Diego and the warm temperatures there!!!!  Wisconsin hasn't seen above freezing temps since before Christmas!  Yikes!!

Jan 12, 2010 08:16 AM
George Souto
George Souto NMLS #65149 FHA, CHFA, VA Mortgages - Middletown, CT
Your Connecticut Mortgage Expert

Ann I had never heard of those things before, so thank you for sharing them.  What is best is that all of them are things that we have in the house already and do not have to go through any extra expense to get.

Jan 12, 2010 08:24 AM
Sandy Shores FL Realtor®, Melbourne Real Estate
M & M Realty of Brevard Inc. - Melbourne, FL
Brevard County Real Estate, Florida's Space Coast

Hi Ann, Great tips for your car for the this crazy winter weather we're having. Some of these pointers will actually come in handy down here in Florida since we woke up to 26 degree temperatures this morning.

Jan 12, 2010 12:46 PM
Ann Hayden 636-399-7544
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Select Properties-St. Louis Missouri - Des Peres, MO
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Andrea,

I have not tried all of these yet but I think with the weather in my area I will get the opportunity!

Ann 

Jan 13, 2010 02:18 AM
Ann Hayden 636-399-7544
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Mary,

Yes, it was in the car but you might have been able to get some at a near by location.....  every store seems to have it now.

Ann

Jan 13, 2010 02:19 AM
Ann Hayden 636-399-7544
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Tony and Darcy,

These could really come in handy in bad weather....

Ann

Jan 13, 2010 02:20 AM
Ann Hayden 636-399-7544
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April,

I know just what you mean.... 

Stay warm...

Ann

Jan 13, 2010 02:36 AM
Mary Douglas
United Country Ponderosa Realty, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado - Red Feather Lakes, CO
REALTOR, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado

That's true Ann!  The passenger side was not frozen, so I got in that way and climbed over ...now the trick would have been to use the hand sanitizer on the key at that point --so I could get out! :-)

Jan 13, 2010 04:43 AM
Ann Hayden 636-399-7544
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George,

That was what I liked about the list....  No extra expense!

Ann

Jan 13, 2010 07:53 AM
Ann Hayden 636-399-7544
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Sandy,

I bet you are freezing....  DO you have a furnace??

Ann

Jan 13, 2010 08:41 AM
Ann Hayden 636-399-7544
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Mary,

Now you know for next time!!

Ann

Jan 13, 2010 08:52 AM
Bill Carroll
Corcoran Real Estate - Westhampton, NY
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great tips Ann, and very timely for us in the Northeast this year

Jan 17, 2010 11:07 PM
Ann Hayden 636-399-7544
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Bill,

Yes, they are.  Hopefully you can use them...

Ann

Jan 19, 2010 02:41 AM