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PCOS Bill posted:Nope. With my big scraper bar it takes about 20 seconds to do the whole windshield, and maybe 10 seconds for the rear glass. No chemicals needed. Hmm, must be that my scraper in inferior, i never get it clear that fast. Effort.. xzzy posted:Clearing off the car manually gives the engine some time to warm up and start producing heat. It's a good way to keep your blood moving instead of just shivering. Plus you aren't in the car belching warm moist air into a cold environment and fogging the poo poo out of the windows. I'm so glad my van has an air dryer in the HVAC system to stop this. It also means it dumps hot air much faster than normal. My car's 1.9-litre diesel engine takes forever to warm up in the winter, you could easily go 30-45 mins without it reaching temp, so no benefit there or letting it run while you clear the ice off. 
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Mooseykins posted:I'm so glad my van has an air dryer in the HVAC system to stop this. It also means it dumps hot air much faster than normal. My car's 1.9-litre diesel engine takes forever to warm up in the winter, you could easily go 30-45 mins without it reaching temp, so no benefit there or letting it run while you clear the ice off. Sounds like someone needs to zip tie some cardboard to the front grille. 
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Mar 23, 2015 20:03
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xzzy posted:Sounds like someone needs to zip tie some cardboard to the front grille. Usually take the bottom grille off and block it off with duct tape. Does improve it, but it still takes a long time to reach temp. Silly cars! Doesn't have heated seats either.
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Mar 23, 2015 20:08
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This was the first winter of never having to clean snow off my Jeep and it rules so hard. Attached garage at home and covered parking at work. Game changer.
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Mar 23, 2015 20:19
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i just start my car remotely and go back to drinking coffee and watching tv?????
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go3 posted:i just start my car remotely and go back to drinking coffee and watching tv????? Get out of here with your fancy new car 
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Mar 23, 2015 20:27
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Garage at home, full of woodworking stuff and tools and spare wheels/tires and the motorcycle and.... Doesn't leave much room for parking the cars in
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Mar 23, 2015 20:28
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go3 posted:i just start my car remotely and go back to drinking coffee and watching tv????? Remote start systems are illegal here. Some bullshit about leaving a running vehicle unattended. The official offence is "quitting" and is subject to a £30 fine. (apparently)
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Mar 23, 2015 20:31
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My "ice scraper" is a plastic pie/cake knife I dug out of my kitchen junk drawer... Luckily it only snows/ices like once a year here and I ain't driving anywhere if the roads are icy anyway.
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Mar 23, 2015 22:54
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I use a sno-brum and a separate scraper + brush. Works great, push the majority of the snow off with the broom and do the windows and such with the scraper + brush. I keep them on the floor in the back seat during the winter and the trunk during the summer. Still got my winter tires on too, had a little bit of snow on Saturday but I think that's probably the last of it for this year. Finally time to put the summer wheels back on.
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Mar 23, 2015 23:18
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Mooseykins posted:Remote start systems are illegal here. One of the reasons for me buying the Zoe is that, as well as having full heating ability the instant you get in it, you can turn the climate control on remotely (or set it on a timer). I come out the house on an icy morning to a warm, defrosted car. A separate heater unit for a petrol or diesel car would achieve the same end, mind.
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Mar 23, 2015 23:42
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PCOS Bill posted:I'm in Pittsburgh so we have the occasional snow to the end of March, and lately it's not been snowing until into November so it's not quite as bad as up where you are. I make full use of my hatch regularly in the summer though so I like to not have my brush in the way every time I fill it up. It's snowing right now An 'SUV' brush like the one PCOS Bill has is one of the best things I've bought for my car. Takes me less than 2 minutes to clear the whole car off.
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Mar 24, 2015 03:07
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It sure is fun watching you guys try to dig yourselves out of a snowy hell while I'm out on the rivers already getting sunburned.
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Speaking of sharing the road with people. I left work quite late tonight so light traffic on I-10, was cruising along at about 80mph (65 limit? What's that?). A small older import hatchback of some sort went zooming by at about 90'ish.. with 3 stupidly oversized shiny wheels with super low profile tires, and one tiny donut spare. Totally not a disaster waiting to happen as he zoomed down the freeway with one corner of the car 6" lower than the opposite corner on a 50mph limit temporary spare. Sadly, the looming disaster didn't happen in the 30 seconds or so that he was in the view of my dash cam.
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Mar 24, 2015 04:48
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And... it snowed this evening. Good thing I needed to drive the car today or I would have come out disgruntled at a snow covered bike/world.
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Mar 24, 2015 04:53
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People on i76 and i80 between Denver and about an hour west of Des Moines loving rock at highway driving. No left lane hogs, no blinker ignorance, and just... general courtesy. I was amazed. Chicago drivers more than made up for it, I saw a bunch of tank commanders today. There were probably half a dozen cars off the road along i88 eastbound, too.
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Mar 24, 2015 05:45
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I've been in Kolkata on a business for a couple of days now, and holy poo poo traffic is hilarious and scary and amazing, all at the same time. Our driver is quite proficient at dealing with the chaos, and the car has been blessed, so we'll be fine. But I do get a bit worried when he dives straight in front of a bus on a downhill slope while jamming the brakes to hit our exit. "Time is money, but life is precious" and similar slogans are printed on signs by the side of the road, and while they did seem silly in the begnning, I now consider them prophetic. I will never complain about Danish traffic ever again.
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Almost took out a bicyclist on my way home.  A bicyclist wearing dark clothing on a bike with no (front, only rear) lights or (any) reflectors at 10:30pm.  Looked twice before pulling out, heard WHOAWHOAWHOA and watched him almost eat my fender. 
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kastein posted:Chicago drivers more than made up for it, I saw a bunch of tank commanders today. There were probably half a dozen cars off the road along i88 eastbound, too. Yep, whenever the wife and I roadtrip out west the drive back is a complete joy until we cross into Illinois and I'm instantly assaulted by the collective idiocy of the drivers here. Shitbrains cruising in the left lane, unable to maintain a constant speed, incapable of signaling a lane change. My blood pressure instantly rises. Everything I hate about this state and had spent a vacation forgetting about comes crashing back in about five minutes.
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Mar 24, 2015 05:58
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STI in it's natural habitat - halfway through a shop window in Lower Hutt
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Mar 24, 2015 09:50
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Here is a person we share the road with. http://www.katu.com/news/investigators/Court-doc--Driver-recorded-video-of-son-just-before-crash-that-injured-teens-296943071.html This woman hits three teens in a crosswalk while filming her child in the back seat. Thankfully, the teens all survived, but with injuries. KATU.com posted:“(Dove) is holding the phone with her left hand and was making gestures at times with her right hand,” Murphys Law fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Mar 24, 2015 |
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some texas redneck posted:Almost took out a bicyclist on my way home. What a coincidence, I saw an idiot biker almost get splattered last night. I was coming in and I saw this idiot look at the direction I was coming, and started to cross the street, in front of me. I braked and he crossed my lane without any problems. The thing is, he didn't look at the other direction when he started to cross the other lane, and almost entered the lane in front of a car that showed up and was already up to speed. The stupider part is that except for me and the other car, the street was completely empty, and yet he managed to cross in the front of both cars.
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Was going down the road going about 50 in a 45 and this van goes rocketing past me. I eventually catch up because of traffic and this guy is driving super aggressively, darting from one lane to another with no turn signal, sudden acceleration and hard breaking. The guy (looks to be in his 70s) gets stuck behind someone doing the limit and I end up along side him. I need to get over because my turn is coming up and he blocks me, going so far as driving in the middle of both lanes so I cannot pass him, though I do get by eventually despite his best efforts. His response is to pull more boneheaded driving maneuvers just to break check me and rocket off into the distance after teaching me my lesson (I guess?). Later that day I see the same drat van outside a strip mall and leave him a sticky note. "Peace and Love, the Corolla you break checked" Figured an rear end in a top hat like him would be more incensed by something non aggressive. If he was pissed because I was speeding, he was doing at least 10 over what I was. If he didn't like my lane changing he was more reckless and didn't even use his signals. All the old people I see are dangerous because they are inattentive or so out of it they have no business driving, this dude was anomaly. 
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I hope you included the typo and he's a retired english teacher or something.
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EightBit posted:It sure is fun watching you guys try to dig yourselves out of a snowy hell while I'm out on the rivers already getting sunburned. Joke's on you, fresh snow is pretty drat reflective so if it's clear and sunny after a storm those of us in snow land can get sunburned while digging ourselves out. Wait......
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HardDisk posted:What a coincidence, I saw an idiot biker almost get splattered last night. We are the cyclists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBFFrsvgu1Y
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Murphys Law posted:Here is a person we share the road with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfhS7meOZJw
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Fo3 posted:it wasn't a ram raid? Nope, just showing off in front of some school girls apparently. It was a Cash Converters anyway - probably not the most lucrative target.
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sleepy.eyes posted:Was going down the road going about 50 in a 45 and this van goes rocketing past me. I eventually catch up because of traffic and this guy is driving super aggressively, darting from one lane to another with no turn signal, sudden acceleration and hard breaking. The guy (looks to be in his 70s) gets stuck behind someone doing the limit and I end up along side him. I need to get over because my turn is coming up and he blocks me, going so far as driving in the middle of both lanes so I cannot pass him, though I do get by eventually despite his best efforts. His response is to pull more boneheaded driving maneuvers just to break check me and rocket off into the distance after teaching me my lesson (I guess?). Later that day I see the same drat van outside a strip mall and leave him a sticky note. Brakes go on cars. Sometimes brakes break, but if that happens you won't be doing any braking, but possibly breaking.
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I was creeping up through traffic to an intersection and this lady was waiting to enter the road. I stopped to let her in, and she pulled out straight blocking my whole lane because apparently she was making a left turn that she was not signaling for.
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Mar 24, 2015 20:44
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Crossposting myself from the schadenfreude thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmZC7LgGuAA Buffalo News posted:A 46-year-old Buffalo pickup truck driver was arrested by the State Police Monday on a felony charge related to an alleged road rage incident on the Niagara Thruway last week.
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Mar 24, 2015 21:14
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Of course it's a shitheel in a brodozer
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Mar 24, 2015 22:33
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Yeah, yeah. I post from my phone and it autocorrects.
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Must be something in the air. Visiting my folks in Phoenix and I almost squished a bicyclist going the wrong way down a one way street, on the sidewalk. I think drivers in phoenix also enjoy tailgating as a sport.
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Cage posted:Crossposting myself from the schadenfreude thread. Sorta related, I went to high school these assholes: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19910723&id=nbUyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wBIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6846,5148490&hl=en From 1991. It was a national news story at the time. I guess you could say I was "friends" with one of them, though mostly through other people. You can pick your friends, but not your friend's friends. He could never, ever be trusted. He was one of those guys who convinced himself he was an amazing drunk driver, even in high school, and yes even after "accidentally" murdering someone. Fast forward 20 years and he suddenly starts showing up again at high-school-friend functions. He drives a BMW, is married, has kids, and has a good sales job. My friends tell me how he has changed and is successful now, I nod politely while my thoughts say "bullshit". I didn't have to wait long to be proven correct, back in December 2013 he was driving drunk and while attempting to flee from the police wound up smashing up a few of their cars, got tased, and is now facing several felonies. Turns out most of his home life was a lie, he was drowning in debt and had been lying to his wife and family about a great many things. I guess the point of my story is there's a lot of loving sociopathic assholes driving BMW's.
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Tonight I sat behind a car in the right turn lane of an intersection for a full two minutes without a single car passing the other direction. No signs of them reading, using their phone, or any other distractions. Just sitting there behind the white line waiting for the green light. Got there as soon as it turned red, and it was on a road crossing a major N/S thoroughfare through a university campus directly adjacent to the hospital, explaining the length of the light.
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nitrogen posted:Must be something in the air. Come to sunny baltimore where not only do illegal packs of dirt bike riders do not follow any sort of traffic laws, but will also even beat you to a pulp if they run into you (should have stopped at your green light).
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Kanish posted:Come to sunny baltimore where not only do illegal packs of dirt bike riders do not follow any sort of traffic laws, but will also even beat you to a pulp if they run into you (should have stopped at your green light). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV864uSvZtI 
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What the gently caress is that poo poo, and is it wrong that I want everyone involved to die?
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