Everyone has little tricks they have learned to make their lives easier. In this age of the Internet, these are tricks are often called “Hacks.”  Thanks to Performance Dodge of Woodbury, a NJ-based Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram dealer,  we will look at some unusual hacks that involve your car. Enjoy!

Defog like a Boss

If you get to your car and all the windows are fogged up, most likely you’ll kick up the heat, hit the defrost button and wait. Here’s a quicker way to do it.

First, turn the heater to its max. This will help get rid the moisture in the air. Then, turn on your car’s AC for a few minutes. This may sound nuts, but it makes the air inside the car drier. Following that, switch off the air recirculation so you get the cold outside air (which is dry air) coming into your car while you’re running the heat. Finally, open your windows a little bit, so that even more cold air enters the car. You will find that your windshield defogs rapidly now because the moisture has been removed.

Keep Snow Off Your Windshield

If you live in an area that gets a lot of snow, you’re probably fed up of brushing all the snow and ice off your car in every  morning. Some people get around this by putting a large sheet of cloth, like an old blanket across the windshield the night before a snowfall. Then in the morning, you just pull the blanket off the windshield, and voila, your windshield is snow and ice free.

To make this hack easy, tuck the blanket into your side windows and close them.  Then the wind and snow won’t blow the blanket off your windshield.

Cool Down Your Car

Here’s something you can do in warm weather to cool down your car quickly. After your car has been sitting in the sun on a hot summer day, the air in your car becomes supeheated. Here’s a quick way to cool things down: open one window in your car, for example, the passenger’s  side window. Then walk over to the opposite side of the vehicle (the front driver’s side in this example) and open and close the door about five times. This forces the all superheated air out of the car through the open window and lets ambient temperature to replace it .

Use Your Head

This is a hack that a lot of people don’t believe until they try it. If you have a late model car with an electronic key fob and you are too far away to activate it. To quickly increase the strength of your remote key fob, place it under your chin and open your mouth when you press any of the buttons. As odd as this sounds, it uses your skull as a kind of amplifier, and will amplify the distance of the signal. Try it, you will be amazed.

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