Putting up your wiper blades

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Putting up your wiper blades

By LUconn
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 4:53 pm #148350
If I was a simple man, I'd think this was some kind of car disease. I'll get to work in the morning and see a set in the air and think "well that's odd" Then I'll go to lunch and it's some kind of automobile plague. 50% of all cars in the lot are infected. I'm 100% certain this is just a case of group think. One person does it and everybody thinks, I'm getting on that bandwagon. I had never seen anybody do this until I came to Lynchburg Virginia. It doesn't make sense! Stop doing it! Your wipers will not be clearing ice of of your windshield! It doesn't matter if they're stuck.
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By RubberMallet
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 4:58 pm #148352
wat?

that might be the most retarded thing i've ever heard
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By Fumblerooskies
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 5:02 pm #148353
It DOES make it easier to clear all the snow and ice off the windshield...that is WHEN the forecast is legit.

By Knucklehead
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 5:02 pm #148354
:P I do it and I'm proud of it. I do it cause they are out of the way for scrapind and clearing the windshield. Why my wipers are down they sit partly under the back of the hood. If they aren't up, they are incased in ice or snow, and nearly impossible to get out.

By LUconn
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 5:07 pm #148357
start the dang car and put your defrost on. By the time you finish scraping, they'll be freed if you still need them.
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By RubberMallet
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 5:17 pm #148358
southerners...

By Knucklehead
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 5:23 pm #148360
LUconn wrote:start the dang car and put your defrost on. By the time you finish scraping, they'll be freed if you still need them.
Doesn't work! Tried it many times. Lame wiper design!
So Shut up! :D

By Knucklehead
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 5:24 pm #148361
RubberMallet wrote:southerners...
Yes, I'm from Southern California, and hate cold weather.

By ALUmnus
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 5:44 pm #148365
yes, this really baffled me the first time I saw it. And I love it when the forecast calls for snow or ice, everyone in my neighborhood parks at the end of their driveway, even if their driveway slopes down to the road. lazy rednecks.

By ATrain
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 5:51 pm #148367
RubberMallet wrote:southerners...
Like we care how you do it up north or what y'all think for that matter :roll:
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By Fumblerooskies
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 5:51 pm #148368
I got your back, Knucklehead. I do the same thing...and yes...I AM LAZY.

By LUconn
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 6:02 pm #148371
ALUmnus wrote:yes, this really baffled me the first time I saw it. And I love it when the forecast calls for snow or ice, everyone in my neighborhood parks at the end of their driveway, even if their driveway slopes down to the road. lazy rednecks.
My neighbors did this too! It's a long driveway I guess, but it's paved. It's not like a 100% frictionless substance will be falling down from the sky. And even if it was, parking there isn't gonna help you.
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By RubberMallet
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 6:24 pm #148372
ALUmnus wrote:yes, this really baffled me the first time I saw it. And I love it when the forecast calls for snow or ice, everyone in my neighborhood parks at the end of their driveway, even if their driveway slopes down to the road. lazy rednecks.
remember these are the same people that mulch leaves with a weedwhacker
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By Cider Jim
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 6:34 pm #148374
If you try to turn on your wipers when they are frozen to the windshield, that can really mess up the motor on your wipers. That's probably why car lots in the Lynchburg area do that too with their wipers on their new and used cars.
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By PAmedic
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 6:36 pm #148375
Cider Jim wrote:If you try to turn on your wipers when they are frozen to the windshield, that can really mess up the motor on your wipers.
true, but WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS? :?

you guys are killing me

By Knucklehead
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 6:57 pm #148377
Fumblerooskies wrote:I got your back, Knucklehead. I do the same thing...and yes...I AM LAZY.
HURRAY

By kel varson
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 7:00 pm #148379
If its just snow, there is not really any need to do it. Snow can be brushed off quite easily. If the forecast is for freezing rain it does makes some sense. Either way you are going to have to run the defroster and let the car warm up. I'd be more inclined to just let the car warm up and by then the ice will have melted. For the record, I live about 3 hours north of the burg and people do it here to.
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By RubberMallet
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 7:02 pm #148381
PAmedic wrote:
Cider Jim wrote:If you try to turn on your wipers when they are frozen to the windshield, that can really mess up the motor on your wipers.
true, but WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS? :?

you guys are killing me

ahahahahah i'm dyin here...

DUUUR WHEN I TUNR ON MY WIPERS WHEN THEY ARE OBVIOUSLY FROZEN TO DA GLASS IT HURTS THEM DURRRAR HEY MY WIPERS AR$ GOING BUT THE BLADES STILL STUCK TO THE WINDOW@!#%!! WHAT IS GOING ON DURRRRRR
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By Fumblerooskies
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 7:31 pm #148390
What those danged yankees don't realize is that there is a dearth of garages in the 'burg!
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By Sly Fox
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 7:57 pm #148396
This is easily the funniest thread of the week.

And I'm trying to recall what this word "frozen" is that everyone is using.
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By Fumblerooskies
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 7:59 pm #148398
I am sure you can easily think back to your days in Cinci, Sly.
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By Sly Fox
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 8:07 pm #148401
Everytime that I do I think of chili, the Big Red Machine and Montgomery Inn ribs. But I have washed all temps below 65 from my memory banks. Everything I need to remember can be summed up in two words:

Winter sucks

By Hold My Own
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 9:51 pm #148409
I've blown 3 fuses b/c I try to use my wipers and they are frozen...in fact I just did it two days ago...and today it rained and I had nothing b/c I havent replaced the fuse yet...so laugh at those idiots but I'm now going to become one
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By RubberMallet
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-  January 22nd, 2008, 10:12 pm #148412
that doesn't make any sense...blowing fuses?...

so what? when you put your winshield wipers down they are sitting an inch above the windshield because of the snow?....
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