The rainy season sometimes becomes annoying for motorists. Not just a dirty body, bulk water from the sky increases the risk of an accident. But do not worry beforehand. When coupled with solid preparation and precise driving style, driving in the rain can also stay safe. Follow these tips from the Garda Auto Racing Team below.

Before driving

Make sure the wiper condition.
Rubber wipers can become stiff and bumpy because not replaced the old. The condition was caused strokes in a glass becomes imperfect and even interfere with vision. If it were so, immediately replace with new rubber car specifications.

Fill your glass washer water
Before driving, make sure the water washer wiper is fully charged. Mix with a special liquid glass washer to help remove fat in the glass. Make sure the driving motor is also active and can be sprayed water into the glass.

Note the condition of the tires
When the rain, the tires will work flow of water to remove the side so that no symptoms of a car floating in the water aquaplaning or. Therefore, make sure the flowers are still good tires, has a thickness of at least 50% of the new. Wind pressure and gentlemen, do not exceed the recommended standards can make less traction.

Check for leaks
In particular car owners over the age of 10 years, occasionally try to wash your car in an automatic washing machine. That way you can see whether there is a leak in the gap and car body glass. If yes, immediately fix so you do not get soaked when it rains heavily.

Cooling System
Make sure the cooling system (air conditioning) work normally. Because, until the work is not going to interfere with the view from the glass fogged.

Check your insurance policy
Make sure your vehicle has been protected by a guarantee damage (insurance) due to flooding. Because, some of us do not know whether the vehicle has been protected by the expansion of flood insurance or not.

While driving
Vigilance must be improved with the rain. In addition to reduced visibility, the road is also far more slippery than usual. Not to mention, the eye becomes tired. Here are some tips to minimize the risk of accidents when it rains.

Add a safe distance
If normally a dry time we have to keep a distance of 2 seconds into the front car, while rain increased to 3 seconds. How to calculate, use 1001 … 1001 … 1003 as normal, when the car reached the front of a sign on the road, such as electricity poles. If before it reaches the ‘1003 ‘your car is up to the mark, meaning too close and had to adjust the distance again. This safe distance is very important, because when wet braking distances become much longer even though the car was even equipped with ABS.

Avoid sudden manoeuvres
Sudden manoeuvres include acceleration, braking and turning, should be avoided. On slippery roads, it is easy to manoeuvre the car out of control. Control the car is more subtle than usual.

Turn on the lights, not Hazard
Turning on the hazard when the rain is a big mistake. Hazard made the driver’s eyes in the back we quickly tired because blinking light. In addition, Hazard makes us unable to activate the lights when going to move seine lines, also resulted in sensitivity to the driver behind the brake lights on our cars to be reduced. Risk was hit from behind even bigger. When very heavy rain, light fog lights or headlights normal. This alone is enough.

Avoid the right lane on the freeway
Since the contour slightly convex highway, then driving in the right lane to make you hit a puddle vulnerable. This can make a car lost control. In addition, when in the right lane, you are easily exposed to splashes of water from the point across, and it will greatly interfere with the visibility.

Be careful tire lock
If we are forced to brake suddenly and the car was equipped with ABS, watch out for symptoms of tire lock. Once the tire was locked, reduce slightly until the wheel brakes stamping turning back. When the tire lock, the car can not be controlled with the steering and braking distances and longer.

Do not break floods
When we drove in the rain and met with a puddle of water or better to avoid flooding and to find a safe place.