This is not a four-wheel drive “how to” or off-roading guide, but a simple survival guide for your everyday driver who may find themselves on a desert road trip and confronting difficult conditions in a foreign place.
A properly inflated tire should have a more even surface. Make a stop at the air pump and check tire pressure as part of your routine fuel stops.
When temperatures start to heat up, the water in the battery will evaporate faster, leaving the lead plates exposed.
A hot engine needs all the lubrication it can get, so making sure you change the oil when necessary.
Keeping your car in a garage or shade as much as possible will improve your fuel economy for desert driving.
Whilst window tinting can most definitely help, in the summer extremes, you may want to cover car seats too, especially buckles and straps that the kids might touch.
Always keep a spare battery kit with you – as well as emergency phone numbers stored somewhere other than just in your phone so a passer by may be able to help.