A shiny car can blind potential carjackers just long enough to distract them while you steal their bikes. Turn the automotive tables with today’s Groupon to Schroeder’s Body Shop & RV Repair in Howell. Choose between two options:

• For $60, you get a complete car exterior wash, wax application, and detailing (a $130 value).
• For $60, you get an RV winterization (a $120 value).

In family hands since 1967, Schroeder’s Body Shop & RV Repair employs technicians to restore a clean sheen to scuffed-up vehicles and attends to all manner of RV needs. Automotive wash-downs ($130 value) bring customer vehicles to the able hands of Schroeder’s car-wash technicians, who spend one hour to two hours hand-washing and drying the buggy and ensuring it won't gradually turn into a pumpkin. After a thorough chassis sluicing, window blasting, and wheel washing, technicians dress tires to the nines and cover the vehicle in wax to prevent the shine from escaping back into nearby jewelry stores.

RV winterization ($120 value) patrons will see their home-away-from-home drained of liquids that might otherwise freeze and burst pipes during the year's coldest climbs. When the hot-water systems and attached tank have surrendered their sloshy contents, a jolt of antifreeze guards the vacation assistant against the frigid affronts of the winter months, ensuring successful cross-country ventures in the future or during ghostly visits to Christmas past.