It’s summer time! Whether you drive to work every day or have a couple of planned trip this season, one thing’s for sure, your car’s interior temperature will feel like you’re inside the oven every time you come back to it especially if you park under direct sunlight. This doesn’t have to be the case. Here are some tips that will help you keep your car cool even when it very hot outside.
1. Invest In Window Tinting
If you don’t want to do a lot of things but don’t want to sit inside a scorching hot car either, invest in window tinting. Solar films for your car keep UV rays from penetrating your car windows. As a result, it doesn’t just keep your interior much cooler; it also prevents your leather seats from premature fading and cracking.
2. Use A Sunshade Or Window Visor
Whether it’s a sunny day or not, you should always have this in your car. Put this up every time you exit your car even if you’ll only be gone for a few minutes. Remember, a car parked under a direct sunlight gets hot really quick.
3. Use A Dash Cover
A fabric or upholstered dash cover will protect sensitive vinyl from sun damage that can cause cracking and fading. Aside from that it can also prevent that area from becoming too hot so you don’t accidentally burn your hands in case you touch it.
4. Cover Your Steering Wheel With A Hand Towel
Speaking of touch, one constant are in your car that you’ll definitely touch all time is the steering wheel. If you don’t cover that, even when you have the sunshade up, it will become hot to the touch. In this case you either have to wrap your hands with a cloth or use glove just to be able to touch it.
5. Park In A Shady Area
It’s always worth it to take the extra time to look for a shaded area to park. It’s better to walk farther to your parking spot than settle for the closest one and come back to a hot car.
6. Park In A Garage When Possible
Even a warm garage beats being parked in the sun all day. So whenever there’s an available garage, use it. Not only that your interior will stay cool, but your paint job won’t suffer to premature damage either.
7. Leave Windows Rolled Down Slightly
Key word is slightly. You shouldn’t be able to fit your whole arm through the crack. A tiny bit will do. This will promote ventilation to keep your car cool.
8. Throw Blankets Over Your Seats
What’s worst that holding a hot steering wheel? Sitting on a hot leather seat! You don’t want that. So always have a blanket in your car ready and you’d thank yourself you did. You can always keep it in the backseat if you rarely have passengers or in the trunk for those not so hot days.
9. Turn Your Car Around
It is not always possible to park in the shade but you can always turn your car around so that most of the sunlight will go into the back of your car to keep you from touching a hot steering wheel or seat when you get into your car.
Instead of blasting the AC unit and wasting gas in attempt to cool down your car faster, do this trick instead. Roll down the passenger window and open and close the driver’s door a handful of times. This will quickly and effectively cool down a hot car.
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