when you go to pop the hood and the plastic lever is so brittle it snaps so then you have to figure out how to fix it

When you embrace electric fires as a source of heat!!

Also your exhaust resembles the smog comming of a Necular reactor. Or the fog machine used in a cheezy mid 80's disco

You know its cold when;
Mobil 1 flows like tree sap
The brakes freeze to the rotors
your car becomes a Porschicle (my car overheated while covered in ice, ironic huh?)

mobil one flows like tree sap? LOL.

One of my friends has a saturn. They were changing the oil one afternoon (i have no idea why) and the 5w-30 they had, they left it in the garage over night, which almost froze:D . Coupled with a really cold car, they could only pour a little in at a time (saturns have that stupid baffle plate over the rockers which happens to sit right up near the oil fill hole, so oil just doesnt fall right into the head) because it wasnt flowing into the head and backing up in the fill hole LOL. It took them an hour to put 4 quarts in....

It's been about 32' C in Sydney today, and business is booming
(I fix airconditioners) I always enjoy a week or two in the snow but
you guys are crazy living in those conditions, stop complaining and
move south. Girls look better in short skirts rather than layers of clothes.
safe driving on those icy roads
Russell

You know it is winter here when all of your birds keep crapping on my car.


I have to rinse off the 944 every other morning because I live near a lake. Every bird in there has a northen accent or speaks canadian. ;)

Yup, gotta love that one. I was home to Ohio over Christmas and the only car I have there is the 944 (darn, have to drive it ;) ) and after coming out of church one morning I got in the car to find the entire inside of the windshield covered in frost.

Of course, I believe that the high that day was 5 degrees (Fahrenheit). I was amazed that it cranked over in the morning.

People, consider the following:

At -40C (yes, I've driven the 944 in those temps) the shifter feels like it's rowing in peanut butter, the leather boot cracks and splinters, all the injectors leak raw fuel onto the head, you'd be a complete fool to wash the thing (you'd never get into it, you'd never get the hood up, you'd never get the lights to pop up), the seats don't give no matter how big your ass is, you'll never defrost the windshield more than a fist-sized hole right above the middle of the dash (so you have to drive leaning over towards the shifter), you've got to get your boot under the clutch and brake to lever them back up again - and most boots are too big for this, and never, ever, change a wiper blade (the motor won't work anyway - the oil's too cold). I made the mistake of dropping a wiper arm on a -35C windshield when my glove slipped. Lovely cracks everywhere. Heck, I changed my upper rad hose, outside, when it was -25C.

And sometimes it gets really cold...

It gets warm in the summer here, though.

Slam
Alberta, Canada

Slam, I think you topped them all.

Darn Saturns! That is what happened to me. LOL

I just moved to D.C. from Hawaii. It has been a little hard to adjust. When my car arrived, I checked the oil and realized that over the last two months on the boat she had dripped out a quart. 20/50 does NOT flow well when the temp is below -20! Time to switch to 10/30 I guess. Right after I buy a damn heater for the garage.

You know it's really cold when, your shadow shows up 5 mins. after you arrive.