Winter and Driving
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With the frosty mornings and iced over windscreens why do some drivers think it a good idea to start the car turn the fan on full chat and put the wipers on the clear the screen? we all know that sound as the rubber blades glide over ice!
Anyone else noticed when following other drivers on dark mornings that they rarely or never use main beam?
Anyone else noticed when following other drivers on dark mornings that they rarely or never use main beam?
I'm yet to see anyone do this. I only use my wipers and washers to clear the ice after my heated screen has done it's work. Tell you what though, the amount of people you see driving with foggy screens and windows (especially at night) is incredibly high. I try to give them a wide berth.
Michael
Michael
Nothing new... just another thing that a worrying proportion of the UK motoring public treat with minimal effort or regard. Add it to those who have tyres at 1.2mm, bulbs out, dogs or kids bouncing about the back seat, are busy making Tik Tok videos at 89mph on the M6, in the rain, 5ft from the car in front, park in disabled baya, don't bother with insurance etc etc...
Saleen836 said:
With the frosty mornings and iced over windscreens why do some drivers think it a good idea to start the car turn the fan on full chat and put the wipers on the clear the screen? we all know that sound as the rubber blades glide over ice!
Anyone else noticed when following other drivers on dark mornings that they rarely or never use main beam?
One of my sons in law does the peephole in the screen and wipers thing. He crashed into the back of another car but still does it. Our daughter told us last week that he came in and said he’d cleared her car for her - she said there was no way she’d drive it like that.Anyone else noticed when following other drivers on dark mornings that they rarely or never use main beam?
Davie said:
Nothing new... just another thing that a worrying proportion of the UK motoring public treat with minimal effort or regard. Add it to those who have tyres at 1.2mm, bulbs out, dogs or kids bouncing about the back seat, are busy making Tik Tok videos at 89mph on the M6, in the rain, 5ft from the car in front, park in disabled baya, don't bother with insurance etc etc...
and those that drive off with 10cm of snow frozen to their car (that they just couldn't be ar5ed to properly remove) that after x minutes, because the interior of the car has warmed up, loosens off and becomes a 10kg unguided missile taking out the car/motorcyclist/cyclist/pedestrian around them.My OH's Mini is prone to sticky doors in the cold weather. We've lightly greased the door seals, but some mornings it feels like I will pull off the door handles when trying to open it to get it running. Would be nice if it had remote start/heating, but I've not had this issue with other cars.
Normal routine though is a couple of bottles of warm water over the glass, and then leave running for 10 mins to get everything nice and warm.
Normal routine though is a couple of bottles of warm water over the glass, and then leave running for 10 mins to get everything nice and warm.
LimaDelta said:
My OH's Mini is prone to sticky doors in the cold weather. We've lightly greased the door seals, but some mornings it feels like I will pull off the door handles when trying to open it to get it running.
Use silicone spray (you can buy it at Halfords) on the seals - often there are multiple layers. Do the contact surfaces of the door too.LimaDelta said:
My OH's Mini is prone to sticky doors in the cold weather. We've lightly greased the door seals, but some mornings it feels like I will pull off the door handles when trying to open it to get it running. Would be nice if it had remote start/heating, but I've not had this issue with other cars.
Normal routine though is a couple of bottles of warm water over the glass, and then leave running for 10 mins to get everything nice and warm.
It happen on wife’s car on the first cold day we had but was fine after that. Could be if you tip water over the car then you’re extending the problem unless the car gets a very long run to dry out.Normal routine though is a couple of bottles of warm water over the glass, and then leave running for 10 mins to get everything nice and warm.
My wonderful next-door neighbour - possibly the laziest and certainly a contender for most ignorant man on the planet - has been treating us to the sound of wipers on an iced-up windscreen at 5:30 every morning for the past week or so. This is usually accompanied by the sound of him gunning the engine, presumably in an attempt to warm the car up. God forbid he uses a scraper, let alone some de-icer.
georgejoshington said:
My wonderful next-door neighbour - possibly the laziest and certainly a contender for most ignorant man on the planet - has been treating us to the sound of wipers on an iced-up windscreen at 5:30 every morning for the past week or so. This is usually accompanied by the sound of him gunning the engine, presumably in an attempt to warm the car up. God forbid he uses a scraper, let alone some de-icer.
My neighbour does his with warm water which turns the footpath into a skating rink, and we’re on walk-to-school route. I feel compelled to go out and put salt on it after he’s gone. Another thread that leaves me glad that I have no neighbours, and an electric gate to stop would be car thieves.
Just a simple 5-bar farm gate with a electric arm, worked by a control box linked to my phone.
Mind you, I am not sure the cow next door has the brains to work out how to nick my warming up car.
I know it's a car thread, but as the farners among you will have recognised immediately, they are limousins...
Just a simple 5-bar farm gate with a electric arm, worked by a control box linked to my phone.
Mind you, I am not sure the cow next door has the brains to work out how to nick my warming up car.
I know it's a car thread, but as the farners among you will have recognised immediately, they are limousins...
Edited by QBee on Sunday 22 January 11:18
I did a 470 miles round trip last week (over two days) and I'm amazed at how many people will drive in sub zero temps like it's a sunny summer day, they make zero allowance for the conditions and results in the 4 crashes I was delayed by whilst on the trip.
Morning of the trip I was heading to get my car serviced, it was -4c and people where still tailgating each other at 70mph on the bypass, I was stuck for an hour because a bus had smashed into 2 cars and this was before the real 470 mile drive started, the next day on my way back the M1 had 3 crashes on it and around 1.5 hours of delays and tail backs.
So over the two days 2.5 hrs of needless delays all because some people will not drive the conditions.
Morning of the trip I was heading to get my car serviced, it was -4c and people where still tailgating each other at 70mph on the bypass, I was stuck for an hour because a bus had smashed into 2 cars and this was before the real 470 mile drive started, the next day on my way back the M1 had 3 crashes on it and around 1.5 hours of delays and tail backs.
So over the two days 2.5 hrs of needless delays all because some people will not drive the conditions.
It's a combination of a lack of forethought and attempting to make up for it, IMHO.
A lot of people don't even have the foresight to check a weather forecast in the winter. So when they 'arise' at their normal time and have to spend time defrosting the car, they try to make up time in case they're late. It's also why you see the occasional driver looking through a porthole of frost
A lot of people don't even have the foresight to check a weather forecast in the winter. So when they 'arise' at their normal time and have to spend time defrosting the car, they try to make up time in case they're late. It's also why you see the occasional driver looking through a porthole of frost
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