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How much do you or your partner warm up your car before travel on a cold/frosty morning?
A neighbors fella dutifully braves the freeze here to warm it up for a good 10 minutes and scrapes the ice off. Do you get this attention? |
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I live next door to my dad so as soon as he sees me get out and turn my car on he comes out with some warm water yo do my windows with 
I don't mind a cold bottom when getting in though. Was better when I had leather seats lol can't stand seat warmers... Make me think I've pissed myself  |
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By *ocks99Man
over a year ago
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"I leave my car running on my drive for a good 20 minutes in the morning whilst I'm getting ready for work. "
Hope you don't leave it unattended. If someone nicks it you insurance will tell you to do one |
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over a year ago
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"How much do you or your partner warm up your car before travel on a cold/frosty morning?
A neighbors fella dutifully braves the freeze here to warm it up for a good 10 minutes and scrapes the ice off. Do you get this attention? "
did you know that if a would be thief jumped in that car and drove it off you wouldn't be insured  |
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"I leave my car running on my drive for a good 20 minutes in the morning whilst I'm getting ready for work.
Hope you don't leave it unattended. If someone nicks it you insurance will tell you to do one "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I live next door to my dad so as soon as he sees me get out and turn my car on he comes out with some warm water yo do my windows with
I don't mind a cold bottom when getting in though. Was better when I had leather seats lol can't stand seat warmers... Make me think I've pissed myself "
If you Google that you'll probably stop doing it ..... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I leave my car running on my drive for a good 20 minutes in the morning whilst I'm getting ready for work.
Hope you don't leave it unattended. If someone nicks it you insurance will tell you to do one
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Two sets of keys/remotes.leave car running and lock car door.?
Bit annoying for the neighbours tho all that noise and more to the point pollution belting out .
In Islington you have to turn your Car off just when in traffic |
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"I leave my car running on my drive for a good 20 minutes in the morning whilst I'm getting ready for work.
Hope you don't leave it unattended. If someone nicks it you insurance will tell you to do one
Two sets of keys/remotes.leave car running and lock car door.?
Bit annoying for the neighbours tho all that noise and more to the point pollution belting out .
In Islington you have to turn your Car off just when in traffic "
How do they enforce that? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I warm my little car up for about 10 minutes. Was frozen solid this morning.
It is illegal to drive with only a little bit of the screen done and rightly so. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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" just to add, it's also illegal to have a vehicle engine running on a drive or at the roadside unattended."
only on the roadside ... 'tis ok on your own land |
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By *alcon43Woman
over a year ago
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I have s heated windscreen. Fiesta doesn’t take long to heat up. My neighbours tend to leave their engines running. We’re in a cul de sac so I’m sure there’s nit much danger of a theft.
Wish I got as much attention as these cars.  |
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By *ev-PMan
over a year ago
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" just to add, it's also illegal to have a vehicle engine running on a drive or at the roadside unattended.
only on the roadside ... 'tis ok on your own land "
Ah ta ...sure I read that somewhere. (Don't know what happened to my post, it went AWOL) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I scr ape my windows and get on with it. Even open the windows if I get a bit steamy.
A bit of cold never hurts (unless you get frostbite)."
my car would warm up at the sight of you |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Milk carton of room temp water with a couple of dashes of vodka poured over windows to de-ice, already wrapped up warm from taking the dogs out so I just jump in and go, no fancying around. My wee car warms up quite quickly, and with my travel coffee and some good songs to belt out I don't even notice the cold! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I have s heated windscreen. Fiesta doesn’t take long to heat up. My neighbours tend to leave their engines running. We’re in a cul de sac so I’m sure there’s nit much danger of a theft.
Wish I got as much attention as these cars. "
Beaten too the old boast of a ford patented heated windscreen.
I literally sit in my car turn the heaters on, 30 seconds ready to go.
Before I get in though I always check windscreen wipers free, as if they are stuck frozen and you try to move them you could burn motor out. |
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Heated seats are a life-saver this time of year!
Modern cars do not need to warm up and doing so only generates more pollution and more grimy deposits in your engine. Oh that and I live in Leeds so ‘icing’ is a concern  |
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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago
Northampton Somewhere |
When I come downstairs i nip out and spray the windows. Go in have breakfast etc by the time I'm ready to go ~ all clear.
I've got a little fiat that takes ages to warm up but I'm too paranoid to leave the engine running in case it gets nicked!
Best idea yet though is to stay in bed until the sun comes out  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I just stay in bed until the sun comes up. lol can I join your hat "
The hat just gets chucked on a chair in the corner, so,yes you can join it if you insist.
You can go scrape the ice of my windscreen if you like.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I just stay in bed until the sun comes up. lol can I join your hat
The hat just gets chucked on a chair in the corner, so,yes you can join it if you insist.
You can go scrape the ice of my windscreen if you like.
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cold hands warm heart |
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By (user no longer on site)
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When your engine is cold, the petrol is less likely to evaporate and create the correct ratio of air and vaporized fuel for combustion. Engines with electronic fuel injection have sensors that compensate for the cold by pumping more petrol into the mixture. The engine continues to run rich in this way until it heats up to about 40 degrees.
Warming up your car before driving is a leftover practice from a time when carbureted engines dominated the roads. Carburetors mix petrol and air to make vaporized fuel to run an engine, but they don't have sensors that tweak the amount of petrol when it's cold out. As a result, you do need to let older cars warm up before driving or they will stall out. But it's been about 30 years since carbureted engines were common in cars.
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Heated seats and climate control here, so our main car heats up very quickly.
Risky business leaving your car running unattended in this day and age. Too many thrives about.
Wasn't it made an offence to leave your car running unattended? |
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My car is in a locked secure area at the side of my house in the garden. So I get the engine running and warm it up as I'm getting a brew and breakfast. Walk out of the kitchen and the car is all de-iced and warm inside.
I feel bad about the environment when I do this but oddly this guilt melts away as sit down in my nice warm car. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When I was a kid my mom used to send me out to the car with the keys and a shovel. I had to warm it up while I dug it out of the snow. Took about 15-20 minutes. I loved snow, though, so I didn't mind.
When there wasn't snow to dig out it was a bit boring.... |
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By *irginieWoman
over a year ago
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"I drive an old landy......
Marry me
Erm wouldn’t that be illegal
To be honest with an old Landie the chances of actually arriving at a meet would be pretty slim anyway "
It’s a fair point |
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"I live next door to my dad so as soon as he sees me get out and turn my car on he comes out with some warm water yo do my windows with
I don't mind a cold bottom when getting in though. Was better when I had leather seats lol can't stand seat warmers... Make me think I've pissed myself
If you Google that you'll probably stop doing it ....."
Probably won't to be fair. |
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