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Western Thunderer
Loads of snow on the floor and a broken windscreen thanks to some To***r who couldn't be bothered to clean their car roof off., doing 40 the snow and ice fell onto the windscreen on the car in front the Pr**k used his WWipers to clean it on v fast sent the lot flying through the air ice hit my screen and put a 2 ft long crack in it. I have a MOT on Saturday:headbang: so the window men are coming Friday to replace it:oops:

Did you get his details ?. I wouldve had roadrage !! :rant:

Steve :cool:
 

iploffy

OC Blue Brigade
Are you seriously suggesting that the driver in front should NOT use his wipers to clear the snow/ice which didn't break his windscreen but probably obscured his vision?

No what I am seriously suggesting is that He should have cleaned the snow off his roof before his journey began as is the law of the land, but hey we have very few motorised patrol vehicles who will challenge motorists any way these days. I can remember a time when you got a producer if a light bulb didn't work now there are that many cars with faults that they only get pulled on MOT day.I followed a car the other day with Christmas tree lighting for rear lights, once the indicators went on the whole of the back of the car flashed along with it. An earth fault but a fault non the less, when they stopped in their driveway and I politely told them what was happening I was asked what business it was of mine!.
 

daifly

Western Thunderer
Loads of snow on the floor and a broken windscreen thanks to some To***r who couldn't be bothered to clean their car roof off., doing 40 the snow and ice fell onto the windscreen on the car in front the Pr**k used his WWipers to clean it on v fast sent the lot flying through the air ice hit my screen and put a 2 ft long crack in it.
So just how many vehicles are involved here? You imply 3, yours being the third behind both the 'To***r' and the 'Pr**k'. Your next msg suggests that you were the second vehicle in which case I'm also impressed that you can tell how fast the wipers are going on a car ahead of you and that the ice and snow moved forward from the roof onto the windscreen when the vehicle under it is moving at 40mph!
No what I am seriously suggesting is that He should have cleaned the snow off his roof before his journey began as is the law of the land,
No argument with that.
 

iploffy

OC Blue Brigade
So just how many vehicles are involved here? You imply 3, yours being the third behind both the 'To***r' and the 'Pr**k'. Your next msg suggests that you were the second vehicle in which case I'm also impressed that you can tell how fast the wipers are going on a car ahead of you and that the ice and snow moved forward from the roof onto the windscreen when the vehicle under it is moving at 40mph!

No argument with that.

Right the To***r and the Pr**k are the same as I read it. If you follow another vehicle you should be looking towards your front and windscreen wipers are normally visible on the car in front. I followed the Car for some considerable time both at 30 and a 40MPH, I saw the snow and ice fall ( I can only deduce that his heaters had melted the bond between the ice and the bodywork) down his windscreen and his windscreen wipers change from Slow to fast. when he stopped at the next island the amount of snow and ice blinded him and again his WW went onto fast.
 

mickoo

Western Thunderer
We have a roundabout 1/2 mile from the Port, it's a left turn for trucks to continue onto the A14, idiots still go around in the outside lane beside 40' tilt tops, ever so funny to watch a 40'x8' (and up to a foot thick in the middle) slab of ice slide gracefully off the top of the trailer and on to said automobile as it makes the left turn. You'd think they guess something was amiss by all the ice on the bend already there from previous tilt tops?
 

iploffy

OC Blue Brigade
Well it looks like the To***r did me a favour, I never realised I had window cover on my insurance so have claimed my new windscreen and it's going to cost me £60 instead of the £440 smackers it would have cost as it's a heated version
 

iploffy

OC Blue Brigade
Show-off!! Ordinary windscreen not good enough for the Colonel - he has to have a heated one.... :rolleyes: :p :D

He'll be wanting his Tiffin served in a silver goblet, next....;)

(Now waiting for Sgt Marsa to come along and tell us he already does...:oops:)

It's to keep my hands warm when pushing it backwards, seriously my car blew up on Monday the head gasket went and is in the hospital in the next bed to Marsa
 

Crab and Winkle

Active Member
Its 8:45am here in Adelaide and 31C already, we're heading for 39C today. Thats not especially hot for these parts but quite unusual for March. Unfortunately its quite humid with it.
I'm however, not staying in Adelaide but driving 700km north for work, 44C expected at my destination.
 

mickoo

Western Thunderer
Its 8:45am here in Adelaide and 31C already, we're heading for 39C today. Thats not especially hot for these parts but quite unusual for March. Unfortunately its quite humid with it.
I'm however, not staying in Adelaide but driving 700km north for work, 44C expected at my destination.
Personally, being half Nordic what you describe is as close to hell as I can imagine, much above 21-24°C and I'm done. Spent most of today out on the quay and gale force winds dropped it to a wind chill of -10 so they say, bit nippy on exposed skin, just gotta be careful about what you expose LOL.
One good thing about the recent freeze, it's turned my piece of the Somme (back garden) into something firm enough to be able to get to the shed with out slipping A over T in the mud!
 

Crab and Winkle

Active Member
Well all I can say is its whatever you get used to.
I came from the UK originally but am not particularly bothered by the heat or cold. My wife comes from Queensland and if it ever gets below about 7C she starts to enter some sort of torpid state, she has a horror of anything under 4C let alone below freezing.

If it helps complete your vision of hell Mickoo some of the places I will be visiting this week include, Lake Disappointment, Mount Hopeless and Deception Creek plus a couple of uranium mines. ;)

Incidentally South Australia was never a penal colony. In fact it was very restrictive of who was allowed to settle here initially, with protestant Germans being excepted and Irish Catholics rejected. After the huge copper deposits were found there was a large Cornish influx.:)
 

Crab and Winkle

Active Member
Then the place to go is moonta, kadina and wallaroo on yorke peninsular ( known as little Cornwall) the best way I could describe it is like istria in Croatia in terms of landscape with Cornish winding houses and Aussie pubs, beaches. Although they're not supposed to call/ sell them as Cornish pasties anymore.
That's where I'm working next week.
There is also a truro, callington, ashburton, plympton ect here. For that matter there is a suburb of Adelaide called felixstowe although I doubt its ever felt -10 there. :)
 

Locomodels

Western Thunderer
For that matter there is a suburb of Adelaide called felixstowe although I doubt its ever felt -10 there. :)





Well, just to make you wince, it has been snowing here,in Ger, France, for the last 15 hours. It is now over a foot deep and the chill factor is about -5C. Too much to get to the workshop even. Just have to make another cup of tea I guess.
 
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