When defrosting wons car.

[Pat Vegas]

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.

[PSRB]

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!

[Pokster]

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.

Own a Ford, front clears in seconds

[Sir C]

Own a Ford, front clears in seconds

Heated windscreens are great! Until you get a stone chip, and a new screen costs a grand :-(

[Burney]

Heated windscreens are great! Until you get a stone chip, and a new screen costs a grand :-(

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:

[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:

And when your car gets stolen the insurance company wont pay out

[Billy Goat Sverige]

Such trivial problems :-)

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[Sir C]

And when your car gets stolen the insurance company wont pay out

Yes, that is indeed the danger, unless one lives in a gated, walled compound, safe from pikies and common elements. :cloud9:

[Just Trent]

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.

Have you tried a kettle full of boiling* water?














* I wouldn’t advise it.

[Burney]

And when your car gets stolen the insurance company wont pay out

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.

[Ash]

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.

If you hold your breath for five or ten minutes, you should find this helps. :thumbup:

[PSRB]

Such trivial problems :-)

https://i.ibb.co/8PZPbhN/8-E48-ABAE-76-EE-4-B35-8709-A0-F4-A481-C76-D.jpg

:hehe: Yes, I should imagine it's a leetle beet worse there

[PSRB]

Have you tried a kettle full of boiling* water?














* I wouldn’t advise it.

A sandwich bag filled with warm water is the best way

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

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.

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!

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.

[Burney]

Such trivial problems :-)

https://i.ibb.co/8PZPbhN/8-E48-ABAE-76-EE-4-B35-8709-A0-F4-A481-C76-D.jpg

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.

[AFC East]

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.

Have you considered a garage for your car?

[Burney]

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!

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.

What of it?

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.

[Sir C]

What of it?

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?

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

What of it?

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.

And the fact you drive an Austin Allegro or some such probably excludes you from the target list too.

[Pokster]

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.

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)

[Ash]

Have you considered a garage for your car?

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.

[Pokster]

What of it?

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.

You live is a ****hole in Hertfordshire instead!

[Sir C]

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)

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.

The whole scene took place about 20 yards from me.

[Burney]

You live is a ****hole in Hertfordshire instead!


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:

[Billy Goat Sverige]

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.

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.

[Burney]

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.

Leaving the house must just seem such a horrible notion, though. :-(

[Sir C]

Leaving the house must just seem such a horrible notion, though. :-(

I have only left the safety of the compound once in the last 22 days :cloud9:

I've got a funeral tomorrow but after that I may not step foot outside again until mid-January.

[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:

You don't! So don't let that stop you leaving :D

Ware is actually quite nice for somewhere down South

[Pat Vegas]

Own a Ford, front clears in seconds

I am thinking of getting a Kuga

[Burney]

I have only left the safety of the compound once in the last 22 days :cloud9:

I've got a funeral tomorrow but after that I may not step foot outside again until mid-January.

I'm sorry to hear that? Anyone close?

[Sir C]

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.

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.

[Pat Vegas]

A sandwich bag filled with warm water is the best way

But that will lead to having a soggy sandwhich :-(

[Sir C]

I'm sorry to hear that? Anyone close?

Ex BiL. Irish won. Lovely man. Taught me to play football and to drum.

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.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

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)

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 Hulk

[Burney]

Ex BiL. Irish won. Lovely man. Taught me to play football and to drum.

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.

I'm sorry. Was it the drink that got him?

[Sir C]

I'm sorry. Was it the drink that got him?

Oh I don't suppose it's your fault, b.

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.

[Burney]

Oh I don't suppose it's your fault, b.

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?

[Sir C]

Is the funeral over here or in Ireland?

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.

[barrybueno]

Such trivial problems :-)

https://i.ibb.co/8PZPbhN/8-E48-ABAE-76-EE-4-B35-8709-A0-F4-A481-C76-D.jpg

Even Mr. Bond is defeated. I honestly don't know how you do it Goats :snow: