Prep Your Vehicle for Tailgating
Are you ready for football season? Part of enjoying the fall weather and fall sports is the time-honored tradition of tailgating. We’re ready to get our grub on and cheer for our favorite team with friends and family, and we want to help you get ready, too! Here are some tips and tricks from your favorite SoCal car dealer to prep your vehicle for some excellent tailgating action.
Ready Your Vehicle for Tailgating
Pack some charging bricks and a battery-powered radio
If you want to be the tailgating host with the most, you’ll want your guests to feel at home. These days, this might mean charging their phones and you’ll want to provide some tunes or pre-game coverage. However, you don’t want to have a constant draw on your battery. Pack some pre-charged power bricks and a battery-powered radio. This way you can provide for your guests without worrying about draining your battery.
Make a plan
Investigate the conditions before you head out and make a plan. This could mean checking the weather, packing a pop-up tent for rain or shine coverage, extra chairs and even getting there early to snag a spot near the restrooms or picnic area. Whatever your tailgating situation, you’ll want to have a plan so you can get the best spot and provide the best accommodations.
Use clear storage
Whether you’re working out of your trunk or out of the bed of a truck, you’ll want to be able to easily locate tailgating items throughout your time there. Using clear drawers can help you and your guests effortlessly find what you need including plates, utensils, serveware and more.
Food safety
Keep food safety in mind and use multiple coolers to separate items. Raw meat should be in one cooler, while drinks and other items can be in another. If you have a truck with a cooler built in, use that for your drinks and put your raw meats in another cooler. You never want to put raw meat into a cooler with other items, as any leaks of raw meat juice could cause all your food to become inedible.
Make sure your vehicle is in good working order
Before packing up and heading out, make sure your vehicle is in good shape. The last thing you want is to have something go wrong on your way to your tailgate. Check your fluids, tires, give your car a once over under the hood and be sure you’re fueled up before heading out.
Tailgating Time
Prepping your vehicle with these tips and tricks will help you make sure your tailgate goes off without a hitch! We’re so ready to enjoy some grilling and chilling before the big game, and our vehicles play a huge role in this tradition.
Tailgating prep
Do you want to make sure your car is in tip-top shape before your tailgate? Contact any of our car dealerships in Ontario, CA to learn how their service departments can give your vehicle a once over to make sure you’re ready to ride on game day.