mckrob
Member
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 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]