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Mendalla said:
My wife's trip to Waterloo (she's marking math competitions there) nearly ran afoul of car issues. The guy who was driving the group from London called while I was getting ready to head to the office after lunch to say his car was dead. I was betting on battery but haven't heard. They were going to use her car as a backup but it was still in the garage when I got home from work so I guess he got it fixed in time.

No new snow last night so I did not have to shovel. There are "periods of snow" in the forecast so may not be completely off the hook yet. But being able to get out of my driveway without wielding a shovel first was nice. Did end up widening the opening at the end of the driveway when I got home last night. Getting in a was a bit of a "threading the needle" exercise so I knocked a couple feet off the bank on one side to give myself more maneuvering room.
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In car Nate NU's? In once meant "not" as it wasn't seen because of the cover ... sheer madness? The populace is like that with endogeneity ... expect some serotonin ... along with the alternate 3 ... some intermediate word may be expressed ...
 
More snow here..busses cancelled again. My sister and I are bringing mom back for her last scheduled respite care. No word on a permanent placement though.
 
chansen said:
The new snow tires are all broken in and this morning is just snowy/wet enough to determine they stick like glue now. Glad they weren't new in this stuff.
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I got mine on just in time it seems. A week ago. I imagine my garage will be nuts this week given how many people seem to wait until there is actual snow to do it.
 
Nancy said:
More snow here..busses cancelled again. My sister and I are bringing mom back for her last scheduled respite care. No word on a permanent placement though.
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I'm constantly checking in to see when my parents will decide they absolutely need to drive when there's snow, just to tell them not to or get them what they need myself. They say they don't drive in snow any more, that they have lots of food and are comfortable, then they will decide they can not do without a touch of milk in their coffee and venture out for no other reason. It's maddening.
 
As retired I do not drive in the snow, especially when people are driving more and more insanely in good conditions ... driving me towards the X-ite point ... and Isle be ... well beyond it ... life can do this to Yah!
 
Mendalla said:
I got mine on just in time it seems. A week ago. I imagine my garage will be nuts this week given how many people seem to wait until there is actual snow to do it.
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I no longer trust a garage to change my tires. I leave that to my 17-year-old daughter.

No, this year I did it myself for the first time in the few years. She's been busy with homework. I can't lift the truck tires into the storage rack anymore (without likely injury), so I fitted a manual rope pulley system with a 5:1 pull ratio on a chunk of unistrut for a trolley. The girl pulls down with ~20lbs of force to lift 100+lb truck tires, and I just trolley them over the rack. Easy peasy.

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Stupid poly rope twists like crazy, but the pulley was a Princess Auto find for less than $10.
 
chansen said:
I'm constantly checking in to see when my parents will decide they absolutely need to drive when there's snow, just to tell them not to or get them what they need myself. They say they don't drive in snow any more, that they have lots of food and are comfortable, then they will decide they can not do without a touch of milk in their coffee and venture out for no other reason. It's maddening.
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Cabin fever?
 
We have snow since I said we didn't and it's beautiful! BUT, other drivers scare me more than a snow storm sometimes. Honestly, where do these people come from that continue to drive like it's still summer?
 
Imagine an advantage of mechanical nature without a thought ... or was the thought prior? It sometimes lags ... la*tent? Fabrication ... mechanical loss ... sometimes ... sous it goes ...
 
Waterfall said:
We have snow since I said we didn't and it's beautiful! BUT, other drivers scare me more than a snow storm sometimes. Honestly, where do these people come from that continue to drive like it's still summer?
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Skid school, skid school, skid school. Should be mandatory for drivers in Canada. No one does it, so the schools are disappearing. Nothing in normal driver training prepares you for what happens when you lose traction. All you get are meaningless words about "steering into the direction of the skid" which is open to interpretation, and gives you no experience to handle that.
 
chansen said:
Skid school, skid school, skid school. Should be mandatory for drivers in Canada. No one does it, so the schools are disappearing. Nothing in normal driver training prepares you for what happens when you lose traction. All you get are meaningless words about "steering into the direction of the skid" which is open to interpretation, and gives you no experience to handle that.
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That's not the whole problem. If they would f-ing slow down and drive for conditions, they wouldn't need skid school. And put on winter tires. It is kind of sad that it took insurance companies offering discounts for having them that finally got more people doing it. I've skidded precisely once since this round of winter started and that was because I took a corner that already messed up because of construction too quickly.
 
chansen said:
Skid school, skid school, skid school. Should be mandatory for drivers in Canada. No one does it, so the schools are disappearing. Nothing in normal driver training prepares you for what happens when you lose traction. All you get are meaningless words about "steering into the direction of the skid" which is open to interpretation, and gives you no experience to handle that.
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I agree, I did that and the failures there were my supervisors on the job ... Pete Prin?

One boss missed every icon ... and then regarding the cell phone roue's ... he was always on it when driving ... not for business but for game time (golf, curing, etc,) anything but toil ... thus butte oil ... rear end lubricant ... the way over the top?

Alas and anon they cannot be still as they see the alternates going down ... paranoia arises anew ... knowledge of the bottom thus remains beneath eM!
 
chansen said:
I no longer trust a garage to change my tires. I leave that to my 17-year-old daughter.
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Never got my son to do it and I hate f-ing around with cars so I have always used a garage. We have a reliable one with a good reputation walking distance from the office. The company even uses them to service our London-based vehicles so I get the corporate discount. They're storing the tires for me now, too. No room in the garage and my back can't handle lugging them up and down stairs to stash them in the garage anymore.
chansen said:
I can't lift the truck tires into the storage rack anymore (without likely injury), so I fitted a manual rope pulley system with a 5:1 pull ratio on a chunk of unistrut for a trolley.
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Can you tell this man is an engineer? :ROFLMAO: If I had space in my garage to do something like that, I would. I am contemplating getting a shed at the back or something. If i could move all the lawn and garden stuff out of the garage, I might have room for a blower.
 
chansen said:
Skid school, skid school, skid school. Should be mandatory for drivers in Canada. No one does it, so the schools are disappearing. Nothing in normal driver training prepares you for what happens when you lose traction. All you get are meaningless words about "steering into the direction of the skid" which is open to interpretation, and gives you no experience to handle that.
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I agree, or learn the way I did, in a vacant parking lot, lol. Donuts anyone?
 
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