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Maintenance & Repair Winter Driving - are you prepared?
149 messages, Last post on Aug 19, 2009 at 8:38 AM
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Replying to: stuckamy (Dec 19, 2007 6:50 am) They have a tendancy to do that, congrats BTW |
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Replying to: ny540i6 (Dec 18, 2007 6:39 pm) sounds very promising! anyone else ? |
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| I'm sick of wiper blades that don't wipe. I've tried a bunch of the different expensive blades and the regular ol' Ancos, but none of them wipe. I'm constantly haing to open my door when I stop to snap the wiper, and it will wipe clean for a few seconds, but then it goes right back to the streaky, non-wiping BS. Are there ANY wipers that work well during the winter months? | |
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Replying to: bottgers (Dec 17, 2008 5:51 am) Spraying the wiper arms w a silicon spray will repel ice as well.
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Replying to: bottgers (Dec 17, 2008 5:51 am) 
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Replying to: andys120 (Dec 17, 2008 7:57 am) |
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Replying to: oregonboy (Dec 17, 2008 1:28 pm) I do clean the blades though, with alcohol, about once a month. I live near the ocean and will get a light salt film sometimes.. |
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I've found that if the windshield is icing up badly, hitting the defroster will help so that the wipers can do their job. Once the windshield becomes warm enough to melt ice that hits it you can switch the climate control to the regular setting and simply redirect some of the warm air upwards. Your manual will tell you how.
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First, the "cause" for the state laws not allowing downhill coasting in neutral have long since passed. In days even before my time vehicular braking systems were sort of the "hang on and pray" type. So the gearbox was always then an important part of the braking system, often a VERY important part. And also not having synchros in the gearbox made it damn near impossible to put it back into gear once a level of speed had been attained wherein you now required braking. And keep in mind that FWD and F/AWD vehicles were not as commonplace in the days those laws went on the books. So.. You are driving a F/AWD vehicle. Front engine torque biased (70/30 F/R) AWD vehicle. One of the foremost hazards, if not the MOST hazardous, in driving a FWD or F/AWD vehicle is inadvertent engine compression braking on the front, driven, wheels. You may notice that NO modern day FWD or F/AWD vehicle will automatically downshift during lift throttle coastdown, at any lower, lowering, speed absent the driver applying the brakes as a "signal" of the driver's awareness (hopefully...!!) of tractive roadbed conditions. So, coasting downhill on a slippery ice or snow covered roadbed in a FWD or F/AWD, slip the tranny into neutral, just as advised by none other than the AAA, and be SAFER. Or open the diff'l/PTO, remove the center diff'l's front drive spider gear, weld the rear spider gear in place so you have a much more safe RWD vehicle. If you have a VC then let the VC drive the front conditionally. Now you have a R/AWD RX350. Much safer....
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Replying to: wwest (Jan 01, 2009 1:11 pm) You've harped on how dangerous FWD rigs are going downhill in the snow for years now. I'd be curious to see some links to accidents caused by such activity (or even links that you think could be attributed to your theory). I'd like to see a link to the AAA's statement too (I don't have access to their print publications). You can skip the links going to your posts around the net. I'll go nose around the NHTSA until I hear back from you. (someone drove off the road going up this morning and plunged 150', fwiw. Can't tell if the rig is FWD or RWD or some flavor of 4WD - KTVB). |
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