ADVICE FOR WINTER

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31658, 19 April 1968, Page 9

ADVICE FOR WINTER

Motorists should check their brakes, lights, steering and windscreen wipers as essential preparations for winter, Mr Butcher, manager of the Addington branch, said. Brakes needed to be in excellent working order, not pulling to the right or to the left. Every car should be able to stop in the required distance, he said. Well-functioning brakes were essential all the

time, he said, but they were especially necessary for travelling in wet conditions. The lights should be checked for intensity and height. The steering adjustment should be checked and realigned if necessary, and the windscreen wipers should be in perfect working order, he said. Many people did not worry much about windscreen wipers but

if the wipers did not function properly, visibility was blurred and patchy in wet weather. Motorists with cars which did not have windscreen washers attached should give serious thought to having washers installed. The density of traffic had built up and passing cars threw up water and. dirt, smearing the Windscreen. , - An important item for winter, but not so much for the safety of cars, was to check for loose paintwork and rust. To prevent rust spreading through winter, the broken surface should be rubbed down and repainted and the underside of the car undersealed.