Low-ish? And most likely only coming through the defrost vents. But the heat in my seat is turned all the way up. Most of my trips are 20 minutes or less, so that’s not usually long enough for the heated seat to get to be too much.
@phendrick@ybmuG I remember growing up, my mom had an early 90’s Suburban with the terrible GM sliding climate controls, and no matter what the heat was on. AC running? Yup, heater core was hot. Just the vent? Hot. Everything set to off? Heat. It was miserable. She ended up replacing it with the last year of the Geo badged Tracker, and that thing was just the tits after the old Chevy.
How about “Appropriate to the conditions and my current needs”? There’s a reason why heating systems have adjustments for how hot the air will be, and where it’s going to go.
@fuzzmanmatt As someone from the the lake Erie snow belt, tell me you have never been in a “snowstorm” without telling me you have never been in a snowstorm.
Just because the water is frozen when it blows in your car doesn’t make it less of a liquid in the thawed state.
Driving 72 inside with the window down for a breeze? Sure.
During a snowstorm? Son. I can’t even. You know people pull off the road and don’t drive during the worst ones.
Sure, this will read like telling my nieces and nephews there were honeybees “in my time” but, come the fuck. An actual snow storm is hardly driveable, let alone cruising with your cigarette and mustang 5.0. That is what we would call, a “dusting.”
@fuzzmanmatt@KNmeh7 I grew up in the Lake Erie snow belt. Yeah I drove though a blizzard once on the highway. At about 15 - 20 miles an hour. I would have pulled over but no where to do it as the snow was blowing as well. Been in a 20 car pile up in a snow storm too (highway). I stopped in time but those behind me did not. Also been on the NY throughway more than once when it was closed due to snow (didn’t know that until after the fact). I have lived in northern ID when the entire town was snowed in for 8 days after the blizzard finally lifted. Driving in that would have been a no go. I cross country skied to work.
@KNmeh7 I live along the Lake Michigan shore. I don’t get the one huge storm that Buffalo will get every year, but I get constant lake effect through the season.
@Cerridwyn What was liberally scattered on the trees, buildings, vehicles and landscape of the San Bernadino area last February was indeed white. The precipitation that was applying itself to the rest of the L.A. area was more of a liquid nature. The drivers on the Ventura were taking it as yet another reason to reduce velocity to under 30 and act confused.
@werehatrack yeah I wasn’t down here for stormageddon. But I was thinking back and was it 1987-86 88 somewhere in there there was snow when I was at work and I worked at Loma Linda then on 3:00 to 11:00 so I would have seen it and there was snow at my house cuz I remember my little girl running around outside like a California Girl in a skirt and no shoes in the snow. And I know we didn’t move into that house until 1986. And I left Loma Linda that time in 1992 so it was somewhere in that time period And I don’t remember when it was
@narfcake@Salanth Except for that glorious bit in late February this year when San Bernadino got a blizzard - which arrived just as I reached the area. That’s the thing about me and pleasure travel; when I make plans for that, “interesting” weather happens. Flooding in central Nevada. Blizzard in SoCal. Cat5 hurricane in S Fla. Flooding that washed roads out literally right behind me in Arizona. It never keeps me from reaching my destination and/or doing what I went there to accomplish, but it can get dramatic none the less. I’m wondering what awaits me in Canaveral at the end of February 2024. We shall see.
@narfcake@Salanth looks like we might have a winter this year, and yeah I think I may remember that Fontana year. I remember one in Rialto and I remember Loma Linda and I think they were the same year
@detailer most of the air cooled VW cars had similar issues; the bus just had more hoses/ducting to push warmed air through. The few times in Las Vegas it got down into the teens while I was there, you could hear the teeth chattering wailing and moaning of the VW bug and bus drivers as they got the first whisps of warm air inside just as they got to their destination.
What is this winter for which you speak?
Low-ish? And most likely only coming through the defrost vents. But the heat in my seat is turned all the way up. Most of my trips are 20 minutes or less, so that’s not usually long enough for the heated seat to get to be too much.
Working
@ybmuG I was going to post “ON”, but I guess your “Working” is a better answer. Things that are “on” in my old truck don’t necessarily work.
@phendrick @ybmuG I remember growing up, my mom had an early 90’s Suburban with the terrible GM sliding climate controls, and no matter what the heat was on. AC running? Yup, heater core was hot. Just the vent? Hot. Everything set to off? Heat. It was miserable. She ended up replacing it with the last year of the Geo badged Tracker, and that thing was just the tits after the old Chevy.
@fuzzmanmatt Sounds like the heater control valve was stuck wide open.
Which is better than the heater core cracked open – like it is on my truck.
How about “Appropriate to the conditions and my current needs”? There’s a reason why heating systems have adjustments for how hot the air will be, and where it’s going to go.
@werehatrack But I think the poll was trying to nose out your “current needs”.
Maybe to make you think you need a USB-powered heater in your vehicle.
@phendrick phlbtbtbt
Uhh… Set at 72° on auto? Usually with a window cracked, I like a breeze in a snowstorm. Keeps me grounded to the ground.
@fuzzmanmatt As someone from the the lake Erie snow belt, tell me you have never been in a “snowstorm” without telling me you have never been in a snowstorm.
Just because the water is frozen when it blows in your car doesn’t make it less of a liquid in the thawed state.
Driving 72 inside with the window down for a breeze? Sure.
During a snowstorm? Son. I can’t even. You know people pull off the road and don’t drive during the worst ones.
Sure, this will read like telling my nieces and nephews there were honeybees “in my time” but, come the fuck. An actual snow storm is hardly driveable, let alone cruising with your cigarette and mustang 5.0. That is what we would call, a “dusting.”
@fuzzmanmatt @KNmeh7 I grew up in the Lake Erie snow belt. Yeah I drove though a blizzard once on the highway. At about 15 - 20 miles an hour. I would have pulled over but no where to do it as the snow was blowing as well. Been in a 20 car pile up in a snow storm too (highway). I stopped in time but those behind me did not. Also been on the NY throughway more than once when it was closed due to snow (didn’t know that until after the fact). I have lived in northern ID when the entire town was snowed in for 8 days after the blizzard finally lifted. Driving in that would have been a no go. I cross country skied to work.
@KNmeh7 I live along the Lake Michigan shore. I don’t get the one huge storm that Buffalo will get every year, but I get constant lake effect through the season.
@fuzzmanmatt @KNmeh7 This snow that you speak of, I think I have read about it somewhere, isn’t it white?
@fuzzmanmatt @KNmeh7
@Cerridwyn What was liberally scattered on the trees, buildings, vehicles and landscape of the San Bernadino area last February was indeed white. The precipitation that was applying itself to the rest of the L.A. area was more of a liquid nature. The drivers on the Ventura were taking it as yet another reason to reduce velocity to under 30 and act confused.
@werehatrack yeah I wasn’t down here for stormageddon. But I was thinking back and was it 1987-86 88 somewhere in there there was snow when I was at work and I worked at Loma Linda then on 3:00 to 11:00 so I would have seen it and there was snow at my house cuz I remember my little girl running around outside like a California Girl in a skirt and no shoes in the snow. And I know we didn’t move into that house until 1986. And I left Loma Linda that time in 1992 so it was somewhere in that time period And I don’t remember when it was
Depends whether we’re talking Canada or the Pacific Northwest. “Winter” means very different things.
@Salanth In SoCal, winter is when it like gets under 70°.
@narfcake @Salanth Except for that glorious bit in late February this year when San Bernadino got a blizzard - which arrived just as I reached the area. That’s the thing about me and pleasure travel; when I make plans for that, “interesting” weather happens. Flooding in central Nevada. Blizzard in SoCal. Cat5 hurricane in S Fla. Flooding that washed roads out literally right behind me in Arizona. It never keeps me from reaching my destination and/or doing what I went there to accomplish, but it can get dramatic none the less. I’m wondering what awaits me in Canaveral at the end of February 2024. We shall see.
@werehatrack
Yeah, that definitely was an anomaly.
/image snow in Fontana
It’s supposed to be an El Niño season; I don’t mind.
@narfcake @Salanth looks like we might have a winter this year, and yeah I think I may remember that Fontana year. I remember one in Rialto and I remember Loma Linda and I think they were the same year
@narfcake @Salanth
@werehatrack Hmmm, you must bring it with you!
When I was a kid, my friends mom had an old VW bus, @ late 60’s. Took forever for heat to make it’s way forward through the frozen plastic ducts.
@detailer most of the air cooled VW cars had similar issues; the bus just had more hoses/ducting to push warmed air through. The few times in Las Vegas it got down into the teens while I was there, you could hear the teeth chattering wailing and moaning of the VW bug and bus drivers as they got the first whisps of warm air inside just as they got to their destination.