You may know the feeling: Your heart just leaped into your throat. Your foot is pressing desperately but uselessly on the brake. You’re careening forward in the rush of rain.

 

Your tires are worn, and the apparent consequence? Hydroplaning.

 

Particularly as we move into the stormiest season of the year, we’re sad to say this scenario is not altogether an unlikely one. Thankfully, inspecting your tires and replacing them when necessary is an easy means of enhancing your safety while on the road this summer.

 

 

As the road stretches out before you, we feel certain that you’ll relish in the reclaimed freedom of travel afforded to you by our upcoming summer months.

But before you shift gears (both literally and metaphorically) and prepare to drive forward into your long-awaited vacation, there’s one question left that begs to be asked: Are you and your car prepared?

From vacation road trips to regular work commutes, Floridians are no strangers to the invasive summer heat that requires one to crank up the car’s air conditioning.

 

But whether your usual strategy is to seek out shady parking spaces or invest in a protective sunscreen to tuck into your front windshield, it’s important to know that you can — and should — take it a step further.

I read this interesting article yesterday about a recent Edmunds survey that reported that 83% of respondents (1,002 people) hate haggling during car shopping so much that they would rather give up sex for a month, give up Facebook, do their taxes or give up their phones for a weekend. Still others would rather wait in line at the DMV or sit in a middle seat on a flight if they could avoid hassle…

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