What’s the point of the rear window having heating and defrosts in 30 seconds yet the windscreen takes a year.
Nobody looks out the back. Plus being a city boy I am not used to this malarkey.
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What’s the point of the rear window having heating and defrosts in 30 seconds yet the windscreen takes a year.
Nobody looks out the back. Plus being a city boy I am not used to this malarkey.
My rear window defroster is bloody awful, the front won is soooo much quicker!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
Own a Ford, front clears in secondsQuote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
Heated windscreens are great! Until you get a stone chip, and a new screen costs a grand :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
I just do the thing where I heat up my car before I get into it. I can happily munch my breakfast while it gets on with making everything nice and toasty for me when I get into it. It was lovely this morning. It was tropical in there. :cloud9:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
And when your car gets stolen the insurance company wont pay outQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Such trivial problems :-)
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Yes, that is indeed the danger, unless one lives in a gated, walled compound, safe from pikies and common elements. :cloud9:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
Have you tried a kettle full of boiling* water?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
* I wouldn’t advise it.
LOL! I don't live in the north, p. I live on a nice quiet cul-de-sac full of nice, respectable old people that no-one ever comes down. I can also see my car on the drive from where I'm eating breakfast, so it would require a remarkably adept car thief to achieve this feat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
If you hold your breath for five or ten minutes, you should find this helps. :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
:hehe: Yes, I should imagine it's a leetle beet worse thereQuote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige
A sandwich bag filled with warm water is the best wayQuote:
Originally Posted by Just Trent
And what of the appalling and profligate waste of fuel and the needless pollution of the atmosphere just because you want to step into a warm car? * You are single-handedly responsible for the impending climate catastrophe!Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
BTW, thieves don't tend to saunter up to the car and give you a little wave before making themselves comfortable, strapping themselves in and cautiously exiting your driveway b. They tend to be sickeningly quick at what they do, rather like weasels.
* may do the same thing myself.
I really do think that having regularly visited Scandinavia in winter has made me much more sanguine about British winters. I simply don't know how you people cope. I'd fúcking learn to hibernate - or just top myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige
Have you considered a garage for your car?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
What of it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
And, because I don't live in some shíthole like London or the north, I'm prepared to take the risk that there aren't hordes of opportunistic car thieves prowling the streets at 6.30 on a freezing weekday morning. Call me a devil-may-care renegade, but there we are.
Have you moved to Brigadoon?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
And the fact you drive an Austin Allegro or some such probably excludes you from the target list too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
They would take 1 long look at you and carry on regardless, your hands have never beaten the daylights out of anyone I'd guess (this sounds like a Blackadder sketch)Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Cars outgrew most garages years ago. I saw a Triumph Herald the other day - a car my dad had when I was a kid (and also a tiny Austin something on the same walk). About half the size of today's 'mini', but would actually fit into a standard metroland single garage, unlike the monsters today.Quote:
Originally Posted by AFC East
You live is a ****hole in Hertfordshire instead!Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I once watched a chap stroll up to my car, open the door and drive away. (Keys were in the ignition). There was precisely zero time to react.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
The whole scene took place about 20 yards from me.
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Originally Posted by Pokster
What an angry chap you are. :hehe:
My apparently limitless capacity for getting the vein in your temple throbbing is one of the few reasons I still bother with this place. :hehe:
I got used to it after the second one. For me the worst thing is when it warms up a bit in the middle of winter because everywhere becomes a ****ing ice hazard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Leaving the house must just seem such a horrible notion, though. :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige
I have only left the safety of the compound once in the last 22 days :cloud9:Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I've got a funeral tomorrow but after that I may not step foot outside again until mid-January.
You don't! So don't let that stop you leaving :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Ware is actually quite nice for somewhere down South
I am thinking of getting a KugaQuote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
I'm sorry to hear that? Anyone close?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Do you know that garages don't count as parking facilities according to planning regs any more? Planners have long acknowledged that no one uses a garage to store a car any more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
But that will lead to having a soggy sandwhich :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Ex BiL. Irish won. Lovely man. Taught me to play football and to drum.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Lifelong navvy and drunk. The classic Irishman in UK scenario in the 70s - would work on the building site all week, collect his wages on Friday afternoon, exchange the whole lot for Guinness and stagger home to piss in the wardrobe. wd Sons of eireann. wd jb.
Everyone loved him, natch. Even my sister.
The heaviest thing berni ever lifts is his Daily Telegraph, second only to his own dick. If they attempted to steal his car just as he was fulminating about some rascally left wing mischief reported by said DT, he would confront them with the strength of The HulkQuote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
I'm sorry. Was it the drink that got him?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Oh I don't suppose it's your fault, b.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
The drink, the fags, the general squalor, I suppose. He had various ailments and eventually the pneumonia took him, I think.
When I was a kid we'd go and watch him play drums in Johnny Barrett's band. Now there was a bloke who could sing! Johnny Barrett... I must check if he's on Spotify.
Is the funeral over here or in Ireland?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
It's here, happily. I'm not sure I'll ever be tempted to schlepp to Ireland for another funeral. Done that far too many times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Even Mr. Bond is defeated. I honestly don't know how you do it Goats :snow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige