Having washed the car earlier, and finding ice appear on the roof as i was polishing away, should have told me that i'd have problems later on. Letting water over the locks and inner door areas was also a bad idea!

I left the car outside my girlfriends house until 9:30pm, when i decided to get in and go home....but....

Locks were frozen over, key wouldn't turn. Hmmmmm, chunks of ice on the key as i removed it. I kept wiggling away until it turned, then a delayed noise of the central locking doing its job. Door unlocked, time to jump in. Wait a sec....

Door jammed, again, frozen over. 2 hand grip managed to force it open. Got in and grabbed my ice scraper to clean the winscreen while the engine warmed up. Had now been in the cold for some time wearing a rather thin T-Shirt, and so was cold and not appreciating scraping layer upon layer of ice off the glass.

Jumped back in, could barely see, but as the roads were quiet, sod it, drove home anyway. The Cinq was really lacking power from the cold start-up, and just as i pulled onto the main road, yes, they always catch you at your weakest....the rude-boy Fiesta Si. I was powerless and could barely see, and the Fiesta flew past on the wrong side of the road. Damn. Normally, a Fiesta is easy pickings for a Cinq, but i was taken full advantage of [V]

Embarassing, and annoying, but there is a plus here. As my winscreen was iced up, he wouldn't have been able to see my pink magic tree hanging from the mirror [:0][:0][:0]

:I:I:I:I


85% of Marea HLX drivers have speeding tickets.... lol they'll have to catch me first.

pink? what fragrance is it? Tarts handbag? jus kiddin




There's a certain satisfaction you get from driving over a Sleeping Policeman

Watermelon

didn't know watermelons had a smell




There's a certain satisfaction you get from driving over a Sleeping Policeman

Thats actually a really good point! Well the tree smells really sweet, but light at the same time.

Kinda like a bubblegum smell....

Sorry to hear all that mate.........Watermelon is rank.



Vanilla rules!

Matt

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54 BHP of pure italian muscle

I've tried vanilla before, but it just didn't smell like vanilla 2 weeks later. I normally go for strawberry, but thought this watermelon just smelt that tiny bit better

Only downside is it being pink, but after a another summer of intense UV, my car will be pink anyway

Atleast you had a stupid reason for being unable to get into your car.. my car, regardless of me not throwing buckets of water over it before the frost, also would not let me in.. both locks totally frozen up and no amount of deicer and hot water would let me in.. 20 minutes later, i got in to get my scraper.. then discovered my windscreen was frozen on the inside as well as out.. i thought this only happened on 1970s beetles!!

fABULOUS, fEMALE aND tOTALLY fLIPPED

Never had ice on the inside *touch wood* but i'm guessing a few other owners will wake up to ice inside one cold morning...

Another day...another problem...