You know its cold when......
 

For all you Southern guys, here's a glimpse of everyday northern life in the dead of winter we're enduring up here. All Northerners jump right in here:

You know its cold when..............

- When heading out for the evening on a Friday night, your car locks are frozen solid, effectively immobilizing the car altogether (maybe its a blessing in disguise).

- During the day, a smokey white haze engulfs the highway. Then you realize what it is: Dried road salt. Ouch.

- It takes no less that a half hour at idle for your car's heater to reach a comfortable temperature.

- Fog forms on the inside of your windows.

-The color of your paint is unknown from the dirt, salt, slush, and overall filth on the roads.

-A car wash lasts approx. 5 minutes.

-An almost new driving style is adopted, as your bundled up in a heavy coat, gloves, and whatever else to keep warm.


Don't you love winter? Gimme some more...........

forget the fog on the inside of the windows, I had frost on the inside of the front window with the van heated up all the way and the defroster on full blast.

You know its cold outside when you try to pour a quart of 5W30 motor oil into the oil fill hole on your Saturn and after 1/4 of the quart you can't get anymore in because the oil it too viscous to drain down the oil passages under the valve cover. LOL

You know its cold outside when your shocks are now a stiff as a new GT-3 (on your Saturn)

more more more:)

" It takes no less that a half hour at idle for your car's heater to reach a comfortable temperature"

Have to wonder if something is wrong with your coolant system like a thermostat not closing all the way. I've seen diesels do that but never a properly working gasoline engine.

You find out the hard way your window washers aren't working, and helpfully smear the salt/mud/snow/water across your windshield instead...

...your pet Llama is being asked to "spoon" with Ronin to keep his ass warm.

Also,

...you put your beer in the frig to keep it from freezing.



:p :p :p

Lol Larry - ever the tech minded guy you are. The key word here is "comfortable". (i.e. it needs to blast at full normal heat for a half hour minimum to thaw the driver - even if its working fine.) Go north of the Mason Dixon line - you'll relate! :(

After a car wash, even drying as fast as you can, 90% of the car ends up with a fine sheet of ice coating all surfaces.

Its so freaking cold that snow that fell into my car a week ago is still there. ( I dont drive long enough to get the cabin warm, only the engine)

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-----Thats all I have to say SmileWavy

Ahhhh the good old days when I grew up in the Detroit area..

There is a reason I moved to the south.

AFJuvat

LOL drfatz

It's cold when I actually can't drive around with the roof off and it's REALLY cold when I have to use that thing on the center console under the a/c. . . what's it called? Oh yea. . . a HEATER!!!

:D :D :D

I love some things about living in Southern California. . .

Panzer909, I was born in White Plains, NY and lived there until I was 10. Guess I forgot how cold it gets there.

Got a reminder last weekend in Atlanta. It was in the 20's there and the driver side door on my 944 would not open. Had to crawl into the car from the passenger side. The lock on the rear hatch would not catch the lugs so the right side of the hatch rattled until car warmed a little. Loved that exhaust smell. I had a buzz on by the time I got to the track.

Only thing I like about cold weather is that my turbo really puts out the grunt when it is cold.

i had the frozen locks the day it snowed :mad: . The lighter trick to heat your keys up didnt work. Had to get the trusty hairdryer out.....

Then after I melted them the door lock froze inside again, locking the handle in the 'open' position. Slight tapping on the door handle with a hammer got the lever to return to normal position. After that I parked that side of the car in the sun so it will keep it good (pass. door handle is broke so if this one broke im f-ed)


- You know its cold when after the car is up to full running temp, and you have a manual steering rack and its dumb hard to turn (an effect of 4 degrees farenheit:eek: )

-Your gearbox feels like thick mush until it warms up.

-When your car is no longer Guards Red, from all the dried road salt and snow its now Alpine White :D

You know it's cold when:

-Synchros? I have those??

...And I'm running redline gear oil...

I was in Minneappolis over xmas and new years, I have NEVER felt that kind of cold before. It got down to 20º BELOW! I'm so glad to be back in Cali! My cousins up there get up an hour early and start their cars, then go back to bed. Once they have them running they rarely shut them off.

..when you let the dog out,and he wants so badly to piss quickly and get back in that he pisses on the door 1 second after you close it. And yes, it leaks under the door and into the laundery room. Then he starts to claw the door immediately.

Anybody want my dog.

When you seriously consider obese women because they seem like a good source of heat.

:D :D :D

You know its cold, in California, when you put the AC on low.

God bless California. http://www.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/happy.gif

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.