Winter driving presents a number of challenges to both you and your car. Cold weather tests the limits of your car's mechanical abilities. Treacherous driving conditions test your abilities as a driver.

The consequences can be very dire. You could end up sliding towards a guard rail wondering if your affairs are in order, or, as Dave Barry would say, stuck on a deserted road and then passing through the digestive system of wolves. It pays to be prepared. What can you do to get ready for the snow and sleet-covered roads and dipstick-freezing temperatures? Plenty!

Here are our tips. We hope you find them useful — and we'd love to hear yours, too!

Tom and Ray
Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers

P.S. Our very best tip? Here it is!