Ontopic A Thread About Butt Mustard, For Those Who Drive Automobiles

[Jehannum]

This one's a 10 year old Motomaster brand chinese piece of shit, I'll have to haul it apart and measure them, then find a shop that sells o-rings in certain diameters.

Or I can just say fuck it and buy another equi-shitty jack.

I just ordered a metric O-ring assortment on amazon. Here's hoping I find the leaky seal in the VSS on my Cadillac when I take it out next week.

 

[Jehannum]

I was driving yesterday and came up behind a Honda sold by a dealer called "Sheehy Honda".

It was done in dumb block letters, so it looked a lot like "Sheeny Honda". I don't think many Jews shop there.

 

[gee]

My first thought was "sheety honda"

Though I'm just thinking about my Fit, I guess.

 

[nukes]

Window washer is frozen. Come-on 33f!!!

 

[Strings]

Window washer is frozen. Come-on 33f!!!

Just throw hot water on the windshield, Nukes.

 

[Ledboots]

Window washer is frozen. Come-on 33f!!!

Hair dryer, I'm telling you

 

[nukes]

Hair dryer, I'm telling you

I should listen to you. Very stubborn tho.

 

[HipHugHer]

Window washer is frozen. Come-on 33f!!!

Some prepper you are, nukes.


Some years ago we took a rental car on our austin-nashville-MN-austin Christmas trip. Driving through Chicago the washer stops working. Too much sand and shit on the road to see without it. Aha! Lot of people down here just put plain water in them and even if you do use washer fluid stuff that's good to real cold temp isn't even available here. Couldn't buy something good to say -20 if you wanted to.

So we exit and find a place to park. Dig through the luggage and drape all our blankets over the front of the car so they hang down to the ground and trap the heat under there. Run the engine til the washer thaws out. Pump all that shit through and replace it with real washer fluid purchased in a northern state.


Moral of the story:. Always be prepared to fix the car on the side of the road and/or spend the night in it.

 

[HipHugHer]

Hair dryer, I'm telling you

Lost count of how many pipes we thawed out with a hair dryer living in the great white north.

 

[Domon]

hair dryers are for people without heat guns.

 

[HipHugHer]

hair dryers are for people without heat guns.

Heat guns are for people who don't understand what quickly focusing extreme heat on something really cold does.

 

[HipHugHer]

Also I got a phone with a bigger screen and now getting hooked by the avatar.

 

[gee]

hair dryers are for people without heat guns.

Hair dryers are heat guns, just a lot easier to come by.

We've got a pink hair dryer in the lab we use for heat shrinking cable harnesses.

 

[plot]

Some prepper you are, nukes.


Some years ago we took a rental car on our austin-nashville-MN-austin Christmas trip. Driving through Chicago the washer stops working. Too much sand and shit on the road to see without it. Aha! Lot of people down here just put plain water in them and even if you do use washer fluid stuff that's good to real cold temp isn't even available here. Couldn't buy something good to say -20 if you wanted to.

So we exit and find a place to park. Dig through the luggage and drape all our blankets over the front of the car so they hang down to the ground and trap the heat under there. Run the engine til the washer thaws out. Pump all that shit through and replace it with real washer fluid purchased in a northern state.


Moral of the story:. Always be prepared to fix the car on the side of the road and/or spend the night in it.

i was in houston a few years ago and there was sleeting rain that turned to a nice layer of ice on my rental. rental didn't have an ice scraper, when i returned it i told them and they said they just dont have ice scrapers down there because they don't get ice. apparently they do though.

 

[HipHugHer]

i was in houston a few years ago and there was sleeting rain that turned to a nice layer of ice on my rental. rental didn't have an ice scraper, when i returned it i told them and they said they just dont have ice scrapers down there because they don't get ice. apparently they do though.

I've seen them before but not often. Like a seasonal thing like Christmas stuff.

If it ices like that here and stays cold enough to not melt off in the morning, the city just shuts down and everybody just takes the day off. Might happen like once in 3 years or something.

 

[plot]

I've seen them before but not often. Like a seasonal thing like Christmas stuff.

If it ices like that here and stays cold enough to not melt off in the morning, the city just shuts down and everybody just takes the day off. Might happen like once in 3 years or something.

This was in January. They shut down the highways, all schools, and businesses had delayed openings of like 11am.

Big story on the news was some guy couldn't get in his car because the lock was frozen over.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

Hair dryer, I'm telling you

Nah, in-block block heater. Gas mileage goes up along with there being enough underhood heat to keep that thawed.

Or he could stop being a cheapass and get the proper mix of windshield fluid

 

[HipHugHer]

This was in January. They shut down the highways, all schools, and businesses had delayed openings of like 11am.

Big story on the news was some guy couldn't get in his car because the lock was frozen over.

Sounds about right.

Forget to leave your faucets drip and your water pipes freeze.

 

[Darth Handsome]

I've seen them before but not often. Like a seasonal thing like Christmas stuff.

If it ices like that here and stays cold enough to not melt off in the morning, the city just shuts down and everybody just takes the day off. Might happen like once in 3 years or something.

I don't know how the hell you people get through your day.

 

[HipHugHer]

I don't know how the hell you people get through your day.

Last few days I had to wear pants. And a jacket. Which means I had to dig through old storage boxes of "winter clothes" just to get dressed. It was awful.