It Begins: Winter's Fury
Currently, I'm in warm Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina on some training (65 degrees, sunny). Other members in training report that Kansas City is getting pounded by Sleet/Ice/Freezing Rain/then about 8" expected of snow on top of that this afteroon to evening.
First thing being first -- I'm not sure how quickly they'll get the airport cleared(changing planes in Charlotte, NC -- so no problem there). Then when I get home, probably a 1/8" ice on the car, with copious snow. This has to kill FE. I'm going to try to reduce idle time, but I may have to get some heat onto the glass surfaces to break the ice loose. For those who haven't visited our airport, it's a series of 3 semi-circular terminals, arranged in a circle. It's quite easy to practically park at your gate. Down the road, a private company has covered parking at the same price, but you have to wait for a bus (which is why I quit using them in warm weather -- I reduce wait time whenever possible). It looks like I'll have to check the Weather more frequently now -- but Winter's here in reality, but not on paper. *This area here is where those who live North of me or already have this Weather (such as in Canada, Minnesota, the Rockies, or even Finland) can toss-in the cold weather jabs* :rolleyes: RH77 |
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Though the same front that hit Kansas is coming fast - temps are supposed to plummet and we're supposed to have snow by tomorrow AM. Good luck chipping the ice off when you get home :) |
I've been salting and scraping the sidewalks all day. There saying 4-6" snow. Yay! at least I won't have to chip it off the sidewalks. I'm from rural west tennessee, this might as well be an artic temp for me.
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3 days of snow... my n600 is covered. I'm waiting for it to melt to do anything.
And I still have yardwork to do too :) |
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Ice on windshield?
Just place a piece of (waterproof?) cardboard-like material under your windshield wiper (both?) when you leave it. Come back to a snowed in mess...remove the material...turn on heater, drive on! :D -RDU area driver - Ah! Double post! I'm faster than this site!:)
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Snowing here in Oklahoma. Started in to work this am. Said **** it. Turned around and came back home. Got 42 mpg on the 42 mile drive. Also getting about one hour per oz. of Southern Comfort. :)
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low of 62 here in jersey tonight. wait you said december is tomorrow??? horray for global warming....
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I am still waiting. I am an avid snowboarder and I am waiting for so temps in the 20s so the resorts can make some snow.
I am always wishing for a cold november/december and a cold march/april so it can be a long ski season. |
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omfg why didnt I think of that? genius!!!!!!!! pexi glass will be my material.... i just hope that some drug addict doesn't nab my stuff for a hit of some of the "so called" good stuff. snow was so bad i got stuck so many times but lucky its passing away now... i was pretty close into buying snows until I found out the weather got better :D it did suck when I had to only travel at 20 mph in the snow while everyone else is zooming by me at 40 mph. oh and mpg is the worse so far... could be my first 40 mpg tank. |
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https://www.monsterdistributes.com/30...ebeat_300w.jpg They dont stick to the glass that way. |
I'm giving up on good gas mileage for the winter, I really have a very low tolerence for cold, I'm actually wearing my winter coat and hat right now (in the 70 degreee house) haha. So i will be starting my car early, also for my year of car, if it is driven with out some warm up time, the trannies are known to die. :-(
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haha, i dont' like it up here, i'm getting OUT of here as soon as I graduate.Z
I know idling the engine in the morning isn't good for it, increased wear and tear, more emissions, and longer warm up period, but If I start driving it with out warming it up, it will stay in first gear till about 20mph instead of the warmed up shift point of around 10, The other thing that's not good is when i use Overdrive, If it is super cold (winter) the shift into 4th takes about 10X as long as usual, I'm guessing this also means the band is getting around 10x the wear :'( I do have one of those natural heaters, but she's really not a fan of people. In my car i have a space heater set on a timer to help with the interior warming so I only have to get the motor/tranny to about 70 instead of 190 for the T-stat to open, so that saves some gas, but overall, not real happy with my current setup. |
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does anyone know the mpg hit from Low rolling risistance tires to snow tires? I guess my coasting ability would be deminished by a lot? Even when the roads are dry and clear?
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That Sucked
So, Thursday night I returned to a bunch of ice on the car -- I mean on all surfaces. I started chipping it away. With 18F and 20+ mph winds, it was, shall we say, "brisk".
Ted -- the heat onto the windshield was referencing the defroster once the car warmed, which tends to loosen-up the ice a bit -- but I didn't start the car right away. The old radiator took forever to warm up, but the new one actually worked well with retaining heat. :thumbup: BTW, no offense, but RDU-area drivers are crazy, and the traffic sucks! :eek: I chipped-away at the ice as usual, but this time, something went wrong and I cracked the windshield :( My wife says that this is the 3rd one on the car, and for some reason they're weak. I'll say. :thumbdown: For those of you that live up North and park outside,. Forget Coroplast or fancy Winter aero treatments. I have a perfect solution, and it's free! Just pack the front grille area with snow. :D I know this because of that Winter storm everyone was talking about. I live about 35 miles Southeast of the Airport. When I got in, the 2nd wave of the storm gave that part of town a dusting of snow. The Interstate was bone-dry and things were moving along nicely. As I drove South, the snow started. By the time I got home, there was 6" on the ground and the plows must have been on break. I was fine with it, but most everyone else just didn't get around very well. Thankfully the new LRR tires were great in the snow, but to keep the back-end going the right direction required constant throttle jabs (killing FE in the process). But that kind of driving, by default, proves very difficult to get good FE -- everything is against you. Farther to the South had it worse the next morning: we had about 10" total with 2-foot drifts, some local areas had 16"+. I heard that parts of OK had even more than that by a lot. Winter driving lessons started early this year, but despite the road conditions, the snow looked good in the sun that morning. :) RH77 |
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