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Winter Driving Tips Redux

Photo: iStockphoto It's beginning to look a lot like…winter driving tip season! Before starting my post on winter driving tips, I thought I should take a quick trip down snowy memory lane here on PumpTalk and share a few of our greate...

Tire Inflation and Winter Driving

Photo: iStockphoto We've talked about how important winter tires are to driving safety, but tire inflation can play just as important a role. According to Transport Canada: "[Tire] underinflation increases rolling resistance, w...

How to Avoid Being Left Out in the Cold - Winter Maintenance Tips from CAA

Photo: iStockphoto Last year, we were thrilled to welcome our partner, CAA South Central Ontario, as guest bloggers here on PumpTalk. This time they're here to share their checklist for preparing your vehicle for its annual battle with ...

Getting Out of the Groove: Winter Driving Tips

Photo: iStockphoto With the advent of all-season tires, many drivers don’t feel they need to change out their tires for the winter. After all, they’re called “all-season tires”! Not “all but one season” tires! Ha ha! But seriously, folk...

How Modern Car Technology Makes These Old School Driving Tips Obsolete

Many of my childhood memories growing up in Edmonton involve winter driving - mainly in my father's silver 1977 Aspen. This car was a neighborhood legend. The local mechanics down the street would literally come out and applaud when we...

Winter tires … Sorels for your car.

I can’t decide on a suitable theme song for Calgary roads these days… To capture the futility of attempting to climb a steep hill or make a sudden stop it could be Paul Simon’s “Slip Slidin’ Away.” Or to portray the frustration and ra...

Winter Car Care Tips

The last few dazzling autumn leaves have fallen from the trees and this morning, your lawn made a crunching sound. It’s officially winter in Canada. Canadian winters are notoriously hard on vehicles and having a break down in the free...

Ready for Winter Driving Season?

If you believe the Canadian Farmer's Almanac, we're in for a tough winter across the country. Colder. More snow. Just like the winters of yesteryear (you remember, the ones where we had to walk to school in the snow, barefoot and up-hi...

Winter in Canada Means WinterGas

Spring may be only a month away, but most of Canada is still held tightly in winter's icy, snowy grip. We share a lot of advice here on PumpTalk about winter driving. But it's been awhile since we talked about what we at Petro-Canada d...

The Spring Tire Switch - Storing Your Winter Tires

Spring is fast approaching and if those snowstorms back east finally give it a rest, you'll be swapping out your winter tires soon (fingers crossed!) After a winter like we've had, you'll want to take some extra time to store your win...