With the excitement of the holidays over and the long months of winter stretching ahead, many who live in Canada or the Northern United States are preparing themselves for the dark nights, icy roads, and unreliable weather conditions that are omnipresent throughout from the beginning of the year into March. Many drivers will likely discover that the ten-year old car that held up fine through the summer and autumn is faring much more poorly with the road salt and rapidly changing temperatures of January, and will start to think about whether or not the time has come to upgrade to…