Yet another ‘why isn’t everyone else as great as me’ thread. Classic STW. 😐

‘why isn’t everyone else as great as me’

It’s a valid question though 🙂

I think I’ve reached that age when I can put a piece of carpet on my windscreen.

Pro here, I wipe the lot with a brush, roof, lights, around the wiper mechs, number plate. Of course this does take a huge 30 seconds of my life up.

A friend of mine was left hospitalised by a hardened piece of snow/ice off the back of a flat bed lorry. The oncoming lorry hit a bump in the road and the snow/ice went flying right through his window and into his face.

I find it incredible that some folks just don’t understand how dangerous it is to drive without properly clearing their vehicles.

Mind you, just how many people are actually taught and learn to drive in the winter. Personally I think it should be a pre-requisite before gaining your licence.

I was pulling out to overtake an arctic on the Forth Road Bridge a couple of years ago when a 10ft long and very thick slab of ice slid off the roof of the trailer and landed where my car had been 2 seconds before. Would definitely have come through my windscreen into the front seats. Always keep well away from the back of lorries now in snow and ice.

Mind you, just how many people are actually taught and learn to drive in the winter.

i passed on january the 5th, after driving my mum to my nans to prove i was safe i proceded to go out to the hills, slide about in the snow and park the car in a hedge. 😳

Nah, leave the roof. Always like to see cars with snowhicans. It’s like a faster version of Buckaroo, waiting to see at which point it all goes flying off.

So what happens when you brake and a large slab of melting snow totally obscures your windscreen?

Mind you, just how many people are actually taught and learn to drive in the winter.

I was taught to drive in the winter. I’m fairly sure it’s given me a bit more confidence how to drive in the ice and snow. I’m not ‘awesome’ by any stretch but have a healthy appreciation/respect for the weather. Didn’t get too many bad habits too early in my driving career.

So what happens when you brake and a large slab of melting snow totally obscures your windscreen?

See here

I was pulling out to overtake an arctic

Did it have continental tyres?

Did it have continental tyres?

well done 🙂 was thinking of something along those lines but you win

I think it is safer… now at least you know they are driving round with no idea what is around them. Normally its pot luck…

As if I would put my car in a garage, that’s where the bikes live!

grum – Member
Yet another ‘why isn’t everyone else as great as me’ thread. Classic

hmmm

WTF goes through a someones mind that says it’ll be fine to drive around having scrapped a bit of snow the size of a letter box from the front windscreen!!!!!

seems a perfectly reasonable question/rant-ette, as the div in the Audi TT shows, that sort of behaviour is stupid and dangerous.

Progress- my car has a heated windscreen
Antiprogress- it has rain sensing wipers which turn on as soon as I hit the ignition, when the windscreen’s still covered in ice

The blue oval giveth, and it taketh away.

Northwind – Member
Progress- my car has a heated windscreen

*sigh* I had a car with one of those once. I really miss it. And the car. 😥

I have a car with a heated windscreen, well I say heated. It’s got a blower inside the car for it. 😉

I have a car with a heated windscreen, well I say heated. It’s got a blower inside the car for it. 😉

I have a car with a heated windscreen, well I say heated, I live in Australia

Leaving snow on your car is classed as a unsecured load, few round here were pulled by the fuzz in previous winters.

I was pulling out to overtake an arctic

Did it have continental tyres?

Well done! 😉

watched woman in alfa mito this morning come into the carpark at work

pull up , get out

start clearing the 2 inch of frozen powder snow off her roof , bonnet and lights …..

her husband will love her for the mess she will have made scraping the bonnet with the windscreen scraper like it was a window !

Progress- my car has a heated windscreen
Antiprogress- it has rain sensing wipers which turn on as soon as I hit the ignition, when the windscreen’s still covered in ice

The blue oval giveth, and it taketh away.

After being attacked by my automatic wipers while scraping the windscreen I now turn them off before turning the ignition on.

Hold up, highway code enforcement snipers? Where can i apply for this job?

Bad design 🙂 My rain sensor wipers disable themselves after the ignition is turned off such that when you fire the car up again they won’t start flapping away. You need to reactivate them using the control stalk.