Getting Old.

[raf_gti]

I must be as I find myself wanting a nice set of leather driving gloves for those cold mornings



Of course to off-set that slightly the roof is down

[hornetrider]

So very wrong chap. Point the vents at your fingers at quarter to three on the wheel and whack the heat up, there's a setting for fingers, toes and lap

[raf_gti]

hornetrider said:

So very wrong chap. Point the vents at your fingers at quarter to three on the wheel and whack the heat up, there's a setting for fingers, toes and lap

It's that weird feeling, although my hands are being melted by the blowers they still feel 'strange'. A similar feeling to cleaning a car in cold weather and you come indoors afterwards.

[Flintstone]

Just come out of the closet and be done with it.

[Shaw Tarse]

I was given a pair for my 17th birthday!

[raf_gti]

Flintstone said:

Just come out of the closet and be done with it.

Going from a Puma to a '5 I think I'm half way there

[madala]

raf_gti said:

I must be as I find myself wanting a nice set of leather driving gloves for those cold mornings



Of course to off-set that slightly the roof is down

...those gloves are not going to keep your hands warm.....get a heated steering wheel.....

[Biker's Nemesis]

Driving gloves. I've not seen any since my dad had a pair back in the 1970's.

[davethebunny]

pah.

I got a Trilby for Xmas, a sure sign of ageing, to go with my Volvo.

I'm only 35 though

[sawman]

I got some leather gloves last year when using the morgan in the winter, but I just cant get on with them - they have sat in the door pocket all year.

[marcosgt]

I've often wondered what the perceived problem is with driving gloves?

For me, they don't seem to serve the purpose of keeping your hands warm when you get in the cold and then when the car's warm I can't see why you'd need them, but WHY do they have such a bad reputation?

M

PS I do have a pair of leather gloves that I drive in sometimes (heater vents aren't much use when the air they dispense is sub-zero), but they're fleece lined and not open backed so I suspect they don't really count...

[BliarOut]

Flintstone said:

Just come out of the closet and be done with it.

They are Gene Hunt gloves. Now who's gay you mincing little poofter?

[Mastodon2]

Obviously they are not going to keep your hands as warm as say, fleece gloves for example, but a layer of leather, no matter how thin, will trap warm, moist air against your skin. They aren't heavy duty winter gloves, but they are better than nothing. More than once I've driven in fleece gloves until my heaters are blowing warm at hands on the wheels.

[madala]

.....weren't driving gloves originally made to give one some grip on those old shiney and slippery steering wheels.....if you have a leather steering wheel there is no need for driving gloves.....

[TRUENOSAM]

First thing I thought was Alan Partridge

[pixieporsche]

I wear driving gloves ...

[LuS1fer]

I have a paiur to keep the finger grease off the wheel and switches.

[Flintstone]

BliarOut said:

Flintstone said:

Just come out of the closet and be done with it.

They are Gene Hunt gloves. Now who's gay you mincing little poofter?

Get your knickers on and make us a cup of tea.

[ambuletz]

I bought myself a £8 pair of leather gloves from primark a month ago as the weather started to get freezing. Nothing wrong with using them. keep my hands warm, and stops it going numb from scraping ice of the windscreen, ontop of that it offers me grip on the steering wheel that wooly/cotton ones don't.
I highly recommend getting a pair. they're exactly the same as the basic leather gloves you get in other high street clothing shops, but they tend to cost £15-20

[zx10ben]

Tsk...Gloves! Switch on the heated steering wheel! Doesn't everyone have one?