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Your Best Winter Tire Guide

From our friends at CAA South Central Ontario: a fantastic guide of the world of tires. Ideal for this time of year when tire changing is on everyone’s car owner’s mind

via Auto Autonomy – Tire Guide – CAA Life-side Connections.

Auto Autonomy – Tire Guide

Posted by Jordan on Wednesday, October 24, 2012 ·

5 Ways You Can Track the Fall Colour Change

Should we go or should we wait a few more days? Finding the perfect front-row seat for the majesty of the fall colour change is equal-parts location and timing. Finding the right location is largely a matter of preference (and sometimes a little word-of-mouth).

Finding the right time is now a simple matter of consulting the right web service. In Minnesota, the Department of Natural Resources even has a fall colour change app that brings the latest updates on fall colour to your mobile device.

9 “To-Do’s” Before You Drive This Winter

You’re driving down a single-lane highway alone at night: On to your windshield and under your tires, snow is blowing and swirling over the ice-patched road. Just before every turn and bend, you wonder: Am I safe?

It makes sense to dust the white stuff off your roof and windows each drive in the winter, and get in early for a seasonal maintenance package. But beyond a simple check-up, there are many more things you should do for your car as the unforgiving cold approaches.

7 Lifesaving Techniques You Learn In Defensive Driving Courses

On winter’s chilly, perilous roads, it’s important to have more than just the basics of safe driving. Advanced or defensive driving techniques – rather than simply reactionary driving – empower you to avoid danger by anticipating it.

Taking an accredited defensive driving course can help keep you safe, in spite of others’ unpreparedness. In some cases, doing so can also decrease your insurance premiums (in Alberta, taking such a course can even eliminate demerit points off your licence…no such luck yet in Ontario though.)

15 Ultimate Parking Jobs

If you think you’ve seen some of the worst driving in your neighbourhood, or even online, you haven’t seen anything yet…

Sit back and enjoy (or gasp in shock at) our picks for the worst of the worst of the worst in four eye-popping categories.

Buckle up!

Ultimate parking moxy

When you’re REALLY in a hurry…

As with all the other parking jobs in the videos in this post, DO NOT ATTEMPT!!! Unlike all the other clips in this post, the parking jobs in this first compilation reel are done by drivers who – legal-or-not – seem to have mastered driving…and then some…(Note: yes, the last one is totally fake…the rest are most certainly not.)

The Top 10 Auto & Car Safety Developments of the Last Decade

From 1999 to 2009, the automobile world has seen great advances in the development of safety devices and components that are available to consumers. While previous generations wanted vehicles that were faster and sportier, current generations are much more concerned about safety – which has helped to reduce the number of automobile related fatalities and insurance claims in the latter part of the last century. A recent report generated by the “Insurance Institute for Highway Safety� indicates that three times as many vehicles made their list of “Top Safety Picks� than in 2007, indicating that automobile manufacturers are placing much more emphasis in keeping the consumer safe.

Liquid in Motion: Car Fluids Explained

Child Safety in Your Vehicle: Proper Use / Installation of Car Seats

Keeping their children safe is most parents’ number one priority. They monitor what they eat, where they’re playing and with whom they’re playing. Taking care of an infant, however, brings a whole new set of worries, and most everyday items become extremely dangerous. On top of that, infant furniture can also be hazardous if not installed or used properly, and the number one danger to a newborn baby is an improperly installed car seat.

Prepare your Car for an Emergency With a Survival Kit

Canada is famous for its wondrous landscape and natural beauty. With a coastline of 243,000 kilometres, Canada is a vast land with a lot of unpopulated, wide open spaces. This means that to get around a lot of driving needs to be done, and it also means that a lot of that motoring is conducted on long, lonely stretches of road. And, couple that with our unpredictable climate and Canada can be a hazardous place to drive if one is not prepared. Proper vehicle preparation means making sure that your car is in good working order, but it also means keeping several items in the trunk of your car that will be useful in times of emergency.