You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Now with 3x more gears...

[btimbit]

Probably different for each car, where the sensors are, etc. My car I find setting it to 20 is perfect, in my truck it's like 23

[Yamer]

My wipers routinely freeze to the windshield. It's especially bad mid-winter when I'm at home or at work all day and it gets just sunny enough to create a little water underneath the blanket of snow.

Guess y'all just gonna have to deal with my wipers up in the air like they just don't care.

[habernac]

I’m wearing a coat in my car, why the #### would you set it that high?

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by habernac

I’m wearing a coat in my car, why the #### would you set it that high?

Oh no way, I hate sitting with a jacket on. That #### gets thrown in the back seat before I sit down

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

I hate driving with a jacket on and yet I am also too lazy to keep putting it on and taking it off if I have multiple stops with short-ish drives in between.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

Yeah nothing wrong with liking taylor swift, but there is also nothing wrong with ####ing hating her and her music.

I was only pushing against the idea that hating Taylor is only for sexists.

I didn't say it was.
But hate is a strong word. If you don't like her music I don't know why that means you hate the individual.
But certainly within the group that hates her, there is a level of it that is ugly sexism. But not all of it.

[Ped]

Yeah, not liking someone's music is one thing. Being irritated by it because its over-played is another. But actively hating an artist? Sure, if they are objectively terrible people, but otherwise?

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Lubicon

In the winter your it to 20.5?? You're nuts , I don't even set it to that in the summer unless it's roasting outside. Current setting in my vehicle is 24 and when it gets really cold it will be 26. That's for commuting when the vehicle doesn't get a chance to fully warm up though.

So... you set it to 24 in the summer?

I was under the understanding that 24 vs 26 won't change much for a vehicle that isn't warmed up. Doesn't it technically slow the warming up down by blowing out any air that's even slightly warm?

I always thought the fastest way to warm a car is getting constant movement and some slightly higher revs in (ie: 3-4K RPM). A few minutes of the motor on while brushing snow and then a few power slides in the first few minutes, the air temps are usually getting pretty close to good in my vehicle.

Climate control 22-24 I'll only do that if I was a little lazy and there's stuff on the windshield refreezing that I need to melt (ie: those -30C ish days). I'll even give it a little bit of winter washer fluid to help speed things up.

[Minnie]

Someone in my life has been an absolute holy terror the past 3 weeks, which really grinds my gears. So, this afternoon, I removed all support. There will be no help. Nothing comes from me. *shrug*

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Hey when one of those dorks puts their windshield wiper blades straight in the air because it might snow two flakes are we allowed to break them off and shove them up the guy's ass because we're super fkn annoyed at how stupid that is?

Please come shove them up my neighbor's behind. He does this. He's also so terrified that someone might sideswipe his 2nd vehicle, that he won't park it on the street and drives it up on his lawn, looking like a fkn hillbilly. I've lived here 11 years. We have not once been sideswiped or run into when parked on the street in front of our home. The only person that has done any damage to his vehicles is HIM, because he is no longer a capable driver.

Last fall, he backed out of his driveway and how he managed this, I still don't know, but he cleared the light standard block with the rear wheels, but managed to hit it with the front wheels, pulling off all that underbody shield stuff (or whatever it's called), and popping the front left part of the bumper off, somehow. He spent days repairing it. He has placed multiple flags on the utility box so he doesn't hit that and I don't know if it's the city or cable company or whoever it belongs to, but they keep removing it. He just got a new to him/them car 2 weeks ago, then promptly left for Cuba. So other than driving it home, it sat, until 2 days ago. He didn't share how he managed it, but he somehow again pulled off all the underbody shield on this new car - driver's side again. He spent the last 2 days getting that fixed again.

His wife doesn't even drive, so why they have 2 vehicles is beyond me. Sell the old mini SUV and keep this new car and then you don't have to park it on your lawn, like a hillbilly. The other part of this parking on the lawn, is that the rear tire rests on top of the utility access panel in his lawn, so I'm just waiting for the city or whoever accesses that, to show up and give him the gears for parking on it - I've seen it, there's just an open hole underneath and that's not a steel plate, I've watched it bow when he drives over it. One day yet, it will snap, then he'll have an axle in the hole and all hell will break lose. I will make popcorn and watch that go down.

[Fuzz]

Dunno what kind of wild west exists in Airdrie, but I'm pretty sure you can't park your vehicle on your front lawn in Calgary. Can you just call bylaw?



I did have a neighbor who parked on the lawn, but he had no road space, and grew up in Forest Lawn, so I let it slide.

[Minnie]

Our bylaw is utterly useless. I probably could call bylaw, but I'm getting pretty fond of just letting the chips fall where they may and letting the law of natural consequences teach the lessons. A new family bought the house on the other side of him and him parking on his lawn, butts right up against their property line, where *they* park, so I'm sure they'll take care of calling bylaw if he doesn't move it, because they will not be able to get out of their vehicle. They have 3 cars and a work truck - the truck they park on the street in front of the house, the 3 cars go in the driveway - it's a weird driveway, not sure how to explain it. Anyway, they're just barely getting all those cars in the driveway, so with his car butt up against the property line, where their driveway is, it will prevent them from opening their driver side door. So, it's all going to pop off here sooner or later, whether it's the city or the new neighbors that will take care of it and I can just watch and silently laugh.

[Locke]

Whats this nonsense? Of course you wear a jacket in your car!

I get out there with my gloves and jacket, clear the car off while it warms up a bit and thats it.

I take my gloves off at a light when its warm enough but thats about the extent of it.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Probably different for each car, where the sensors are, etc. My car I find setting it to 20 is perfect, in my truck it's like 23

Brrrrrrr #### that

Seat on high

Temperature set to high

Steering wheel turned on


Still wish it was hotter

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Probably different for each car, where the sensors are, etc. My car I find setting it to 20 is perfect, in my truck it's like 23

20 max for me, lowest fan. I hate car heat. It’s so ####ing dry, dries my eyes out, makes me feel like I need to escape to breathe. Usually just at my feet on the lowest setting. Half defrost half feet when I need it.

I can only turn on a seat heater for maybe 2 minutes.

[Ped]

Car heat feels so terrible to me. I drive around with my sunroof open all winter unless it's snowing or raining.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by Ped

Car heat feels so terrible to me. I drive around with my sunroof open all winter unless it's snowing or raining.

It’s ####ing awful. Being stuck in a work vehicle with someone blasting high heat all day is a form of torture. This is legitimately the number one reason I offer to drive, to control the temp.

[btimbit]

I'm definitely going to accept that I'm the weird one here, but in the winter I'll drive around with the heater fans blasting but windows and sunroof open

[habernac]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Oh no way, I hate sitting with a jacket on. That #### gets thrown in the back seat before I sit down

Unless its a road trip, I'm getting out relatively soon. Why would I go through that nonsense of taking it off, putting it back on? Nope.

[Ped]

I drove to east coast the long way (Through Quebec and Labrador) in May, so I wore shorts because above 7, I always wear shorts. Get to Labrador City to get gas and it's freaking snowing, and I'm pumping gas in shorts and everyone is just staring at me.