So question what kind of other after winter process do you Minnesota and other Northern Folks go thru for maintenance on your vehicles?
I have a Kid in Minnesota who just purchased her own vehicle last year as she got a job right out of college.
Ive been giving her lots of advice and helping her but I was thinking there might be after winter things she might need to do.
I'm not from the Cold, Frigid, North but spent a winter working in Rochester NY. When I got there the guys that I was working with said don't follow anyone too close. You have to give yourself room to dodge the odd fender that peals off the car in front of you or the gas tank that falls out from under it. (I dodged both while I was there.) Another piece of advice was that if your car was older than 4 years, you never fill your gas tank up. If an old car hit one of Rochester's named potholes with a full tank of gas, that tank was coming out from under the car almost every time.
Rochester's pot holes were another thing I was warned about. Some of those things were named and were old enough to vote. Just because it doesn't look all that big and you can see the other side of one as you approach it, doesn't mean that you should try to go thorough it with a nice car. I wanted to hang around during the Spring thaw to see if the road department in Rochester actually went around and dug out all the potholes that the citizens of Rochester had filled up on their own over the winter, but I had to head back South. There was this one pot hole next to a bus stop that was just fun to hit early in the morning... if it was full of water and slush. It was amazing how fast those people could move on those icy sidewalks when they saw you bearing down on that pothole.
