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-   -   Plug in car heaters (https://britishexpats.com/forum/canada-56/plug-car-heaters-502466/)

Steve_P Jan 3rd 2008 11:08 am
Re: Plug in car heaters
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 5736061)
This morning the thermometer in my the car read -27. My box was sticky.
Was it actually sticky?

Or was more sort of like stiff and sluggish.;)

I'm not at all sure I would want a sticky box, but one really can't be too choosy.:p:rofl::rofl:

clynnog Jan 3rd 2008 11:59 am
Re: Plug in car heaters
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 5736061)
This morning the thermometer in my the car read -27. My box was sticky.

Be thankful you weren't in Algonquin Park or Borden where it was -35 c and -31 c overnight.

dbd33 Jan 3rd 2008 12:31 pm
Re: Plug in car heaters
 
Originally Posted by clynnog (Post 5736265)
Be thankful you weren't in Algonquin Park or Borden where it was -35 c and -31 c overnight.
Does it really matter? I mean below 55 or so F is not pleasant, once it's -20 or -30 or -40 life is just something to struggle through and it's arguable if one should bother, it seems pointless to quibble over negative degrees.

clynnog Jan 3rd 2008 12:37 pm
Re: Plug in car heaters
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 5736348)
Does it really matter? I mean below 55 or so F is not pleasant, once it's -20 or -30 or -40 life is just something to struggle through and it's arguable if one should bother, it seems pointless to quibble over negative degrees.
Well at -31 or -35 your box would have been stickier (or stiffer). You know it is cold outside when you press scan on the radio and you can visibly see that it is scanning through at a slower speed.

airbornesapper Jan 3rd 2008 12:55 pm
Re: Plug in car heaters
 
I'm resisting the urge to add to this...so I will leave now smiling after reading the last few posts.

REgards to one and all...:rofl:

dbd33 Jan 3rd 2008 1:25 pm
Re: Plug in car heaters
 
Originally Posted by clynnog (Post 5736366)
Well at -31 or -35 your box would have been stickier (or stiffer). You know it is cold outside when you press scan on the radio and you can visibly see that it is scanning through at a slower speed.
My radio froze. No shit the lcd, or whatever, display in the Sirius radio has gone solid and I can't get the BBC anymore. At -27 and without news from abroad I really feel that I'm in the wilderness.

Novocastrian Jan 3rd 2008 1:52 pm
Re: Plug in car heaters
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 5736502)
My radio froze. No shit the lcd, or whatever, display in the Sirius radio has gone solid and I can't get the BBC anymore. At -27 and without news from abroad I really feel that I'm in the wilderness.
But you are, you are.

You should leave the radio turned on all night. Keep the 'orses amused.

<what is it about this forum and block heaters anyway?>

clynnog Jan 4th 2008 12:36 am
Re: Plug in car heaters
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 5736502)
My radio froze. No shit the lcd, or whatever, display in the Sirius radio has gone solid and I can't get the BBC anymore. At -27 and without news from abroad I really feel that I'm in the wilderness.
Never had mine freeze before, but it has gone sluggish. It co-incided with having what seemed to be square tires (it was -26 or something and I was driving on all seasons).

DBD you are north of Steeles Avenue aren't you?. I recall in high school in Toronto (I moved here when I was 17) and the teacher asked in geography class where the 'north' started in Canada. One kid put up his hand and quite honestly said 'Steeles Avenue'.

iaink Jan 4th 2008 12:37 am
Re: Plug in car heaters
 
Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 5736559)

<what is it about this forum and block heaters anyway?>
Beats me. There is a perfectly good wiki article on the subject now.;)

Rob4BC Jan 4th 2008 2:29 am
Re: Plug in car heaters
 
Originally Posted by iaink (Post 5738492)
Beats me. There is a perfectly good wiki article on the subject now.;)
True, and thanks, but it's just not the same!:(

dbd33 Jan 4th 2008 4:17 am
Re: Plug in car heaters
 
Originally Posted by clynnog (Post 5738487)
Never had mine freeze before, but it has gone sluggish. It co-incided with having what seemed to be square tires (it was -26 or something and I was driving on all seasons).

DBD you are north of Steeles Avenue aren't you?. I recall in high school in Toronto (I moved here when I was 17) and the teacher asked in geography class where the 'north' started in Canada. One kid put up his hand and quite honestly said 'Steeles Avenue'.

When I lived in Toronto I would not have known where Steeles Ave was. For the first fifteen years or so I didn't go past Bloor and then when I did I wondered why. I don't think there's anything of note in the GTA once you get more than half a mile from the St. Lawrence market.

clynnog Jan 4th 2008 5:35 am
Re: Plug in car heaters
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 5739421)
When I lived in Toronto I would not have known where Steeles Ave was. For the first fifteen years or so I didn't go past Bloor and then when I did I wondered why. I don't think there's anything of note in the GTA once you get more than half a mile from the St. Lawrence market.
It is that kind of attitude that people in the ROC dislike so much about 416 ers.

dbd33 Jan 4th 2008 5:46 am
Re: Plug in car heaters
 
Originally Posted by clynnog (Post 5739721)
It is that kind of attitude that people in the ROC dislike so much about 416 ers.
Does it matter what they think?


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