I may now have seen it all...where's Darwin when needed?

[Bonefish Blues]

Travelling down a lightly-trafficked M40 this morning at an indicated .75 Leptons on the cruise. Find myself being run into the back of a slower car by a car to my RHS which has, for some reason slowed to match my speed when overtaking. Happens a lot, no big drama.

I glance to my right to see a young blonde lady in a Red Fiesta attempting to clear her dirty windscreen by leaning out of her window and pouring water from a 2 litre bottle onto it - at a true 70-71 mph, remember.

Few instances of stupidity surprise me any more, but FFS...

[z4me]

I've seen folks open their window, grab a handful of snow off the roof, and try to fling it onto the windscreen .

[The Wookie]

Erm... I may or may not have done this on more than one occasion

[BliarOut]

Fairy Liquid bottles work best

[The Wookie]

BliarOut said:

Fairy Liquid bottles work best

Good thinking, I had to improvise recently having found our motor club van's washer bottle frozen... One litre coke bottle filled with screen wash and a small hole poked in the lid so it would squirt

[masermartin]

If I see this kind of stupidity, its the one thing that would tempt me to hoon it properly on a busy motorway. I want to be as many cars ahead of them as possible, and not get caught up in the jam they create when the inevitable does happen.

[masermartin]

The Wookie said:

Good thinking, I had to improvise recently having found our motor club van's washer bottle frozen...

Or you could have runt he engine and unfrozen it. Just sayin'

[Bill]

The weather really seems to be bringing the worst kind of special out of people...

I had some pillock get caught out when L3 of the M4 got snowy, so he decided to speed up to try to find a space to pull in to. I was doing 70 odd and he went past a clear 10 mph faster. When I looked across he was hunched over the wheel and clearly crapping himself.

[The Wookie]

masermartin said:

The Wookie said:

Good thinking, I had to improvise recently having found our motor club van's washer bottle frozen...

Or you could have runt he engine and unfrozen it. Just sayin'

As it hadn't unfrozen after 2 hours driving I suspect it was unlikely to.

[cheadle hulme]

If she was a bloke she could have just pissed on it. Amateur.

[masermartin]

The Wookie said:

masermartin said:

The Wookie said:

Good thinking, I had to improvise recently having found our motor club van's washer bottle frozen...

Or you could have runt he engine and unfrozen it. Just sayin'

As it hadn't unfrozen after 2 hours driving I suspect it was unlikely to.

Assuming the bottle is in the engine compartment it's likely the freeze was somewhere else in the chain then. But nothing a good traffic jam wouldn't sort out

[The Wookie]

masermartin said:

Assuming the bottle is in the engine compartment it's likely the freeze was somewhere else in the chain then. But nothing a good traffic jam wouldn't sort out

Entirely possible, but the difference still didn't really aid flow, hence the spiked coke bottle full of screen wash

As it happens, it's a 1997 normally aspirated diesel tranny, I had the heater full blast and the air was tepid at best. Even thrashing the tits off it to reach the heady speeds of 56 or 57 mph (indicated) on the M11 with an empty car trailer on the back the temperature guage didn't move off the bottom peg for the duration of my usage (and yes the guage does work)

[terzo]

The Wookie said:

masermartin said:

Assuming the bottle is in the engine compartment it's likely the freeze was somewhere else in the chain then. But nothing a good traffic jam wouldn't sort out

Entirely possible, but the difference still didn't really aid flow, hence the spiked coke bottle full of screen wash

As it happens, it's a 1997 normally aspirated diesel tranny, I had the heater full blast and the air was tepid at best. Even thrashing the tits off it to reach the heady speeds of 56 or 57 mph (indicated) on the M11 with an empty car trailer on the back the temperature guage didn't move off the bottom peg for the duration of my usage (and yes the guage does work)

Have you tried covering the grille to build up some heat in the engine bay? Seen quite a few vans doing it recently.