Not a good day... take it in stride....

[Nando Vallart]

I know, I don't do it eighter... Was just to say how things worked here...

And I reckon that playing with Karma is not the must intelligent thing to do :laughing7:

 

[mayfly]

today's been great, it was the week that preceeding that was a saab story, yes i mean saab. if you own one and it breaks you know what i mean!

I've got several SAAB stories. The final one was the "brakes failing on the freeway" story - even after being "fixed" 3 times.  Clutch going to the floor is one thing - brake going to the floor is another.  This was on a late 80's 900S - a genuine Swedish tank.

I traded it for a VW Golf and have been happy ever since.

 

[Dan025]

last time the clutch cable went it happened to my sister on the freeway in the freezing rain with a baby in the car. she didn't know that you can force it into the next gear as long as the car is moving. that was les than a month ago. the cable housing was bad casing the second failure to happen shortly after. but the new saab replacment in there now is reinforced in that location.

im glad it was me driving this time. some people might not know how to handle that kind of situation.

 

[mayfly]

That reminds me - in the VW, we had the typical VW failure - starter motor.

We just learned to park on a hill  :headbang:

 

[hannaugh]

today's been great, it was the week that preceeding that was a saab story, yes i mean saab. if you own one and it breaks you know what i mean!

I've got several SAAB stories. The final one was the "brakes failing on the freeway" story - even after being "fixed" 3 times.  Clutch going to the floor is one thing - brake going to the floor is another.  This was on a late 80's 900S - a genuine Swedish tank.

I traded it for a VW Golf and have been happy ever since.

My mom has the best SAAB story ever.  She came to a stop sign.  The car stopped, but one of the front wheels did not.  It just kept rolling down the road. 

 

[JaySwear]

i think you can tell by my jeans and the fact that my "jacket" consists of 2 zip-up hoodies that i was completely unprepared for this huge amount of snow.

i can't put into words how much i hate snow

 

[stubhead]

Hey Jay, I can tell from your "301" ruler that you're around here somewhere - in Cambridge, we really got schwacked. I was born & raised in Minneapolis, and you just take the time, and deal with it, and it's OK... so I was out yesterday cleaning a foot-and-a-half of super wet, sludgy, perfect snowball snow off of my car, and everyone thought I was crazy. Now that it's frozen solid, their cars are basically underneath a solid foot-and-a-half igloo ice-block. They'll be lucky to be out by Wednesday, assuming it won't snow again (it's going to ). People who try to out-think, out-macho or out-zen weather are nutty - it's a lot easier to move snow when it's still soft. :icon_scratch:

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

today's been great, it was the week that preceeding that was a saab story, yes i mean saab. if you own one and it breaks you know what i mean!

I've got several SAAB stories. The final one was the "brakes failing on the freeway" story - even after being "fixed" 3 times.  Clutch going to the floor is one thing - brake going to the floor is another.  This was on a late 80's 900S - a genuine Swedish tank.

I traded it for a VW Golf and have been happy ever since.

My mom has the best SAAB story ever.  She came to a stop sign.  The car stopped, but one of the front wheels did not.  It just kept rolling down the road. 

Ha
My friend has a SAAB 900s, I think, and it's the band car. You don't wanna get a lift wit this guy, otherwise you'd be getting a lapdance from a Marshall MG or a jackson 'Pointy' V.  :laughing7:

 

[JaySwear]

it's a lot easier to move snow when it's still soft. :icon_scratch:

so true! we cleared a bit yesterday from the driveway after it had stopped (around 6 i think) and then worked all day today. i learned my lesson a couple years ago when i had to borrow a pickaxe to clear the ice from in front of my car because i had waited so long after the snow. but to be honest i think i worked outside more because it worked up a sweat; our oil heating ran out last night (perfect timing) and it got down to the 50's in the house. fortunately for us we have power, so we borrowed a space heater and an "emergency" truck came by and dumped a couple gallons of oil in for us, so we're good until tomorrow.

my dad lives in ocean pines and said they got a foot or more. surprising for that close to the shore. we really got hit hard! i'm in gaithersburg myself. my uncle jokingly called from LA the other day to complain about all the rain  :confused4:  i'd much rather have rain than 2 feet of snow!

 

[Dan025]

today's been great, it was the week that preceeding that was a saab story, yes i mean saab. if you own one and it breaks you know what i mean!

I've got several SAAB stories. The final one was the "brakes failing on the freeway" story - even after being "fixed" 3 times.  Clutch going to the floor is one thing - brake going to the floor is another.  This was on a late 80's 900S - a genuine Swedish tank.

I traded it for a VW Golf and have been happy ever since.

My mom has the best SAAB story ever.  She came to a stop sign.  The car stopped, but one of the front wheels did not.  It just kept rolling down the road. 

Ha
My friend has a SAAB 900s, I think, and it's the band car. You don't wanna get a lift wit this guy, otherwise you'd be getting a lapdance from a Marshall MG or a jackson 'Pointy' V.   :laughing7:

did i mention that said car is a 900s. i would expect better from a company that makes some of the most manuverable fighter jets in the world,, wait after concidering my f-16 experience i retract that statement. we called them lawn darts, and even f-15's had there quirks. why should i expect better from a european company?

 

[kboman]

*cough* Saab has been American since the mid-90's... *cough*

 

[Dan025]

not there jets! :icon_scratch: by american you mean mexican right? there isn't much made in the USA anymore and the drive train is very much SAAB not GM, and i certainly don't expect this to happen to any of my american cars. honestly despit the poor chassis design and not so thought out layout of the american cars for the last 30 years i haven't had nearly the amount of trouble with what come in my garage as i do with foreign stuff. the idea that hondas and toyotas are more reliable is complete BS and those are the good ones. give me a buick with a 3.8 anyday, maitanence there is none the damn things run forever.

 

[line6man]

i think you can tell by my jeans and the fact that my "jacket" consists of 2 zip-up hoodies that i was completely unprepared for this huge amount of snow.

i can't put into words how much i hate snow

I've actually never seen snow in my life.  :blob7:
(Well, I've seen very very light snow two or three times when the weather got really bad, and this one time when I was a kid, the city had some snow shipped in for children to play in at a park for a day.)
Aside from the insane rainstorm we had last month, southern California weather is awesome. :blob7:

 

[JaySwear]

I've actually never seen snow in my life.  :blob7:
(Well, I've seen very very light snow two or three times when the weather got really bad, and this one time when I was a kid, the city had some snow shipped in for children to play in at a park for a day.)
Aside from the insane rainstorm we had last month, southern California weather is awesome. :blob7:

i will admit that in very small doses snow is kind of cool. but the 20-some inches we just got combined with what we're actually getting right now (just came inside from clearing the driveway) is really more than anybody could ever need  :-\  last year i thought it was a pain in the ass, and we had only a fraction of what we've gotten this year.

 

[tfarny]

Snow is fantastic stuff - to go to, play in, ski/snowboard, have some hot boozy drinks by a fireplace, then to get away from! Beyond that it kind of sucks. Starting tonight we're supposed to get 2 feet of snow with sleet mixed in. Fun stuff, at least I take the subway and don't have to worry about cars / driving.

 

[JaySwear]

^ are you in the DC area? i think north and south of here it's supposed to be much less. so far i think we've gotten 2-4 inches of fluff and powder.

 

[-CB-]

I remember a pic of my Uncle Frank, head of custodians at the local school district, shovel in hand, during a nice blizz, and the caption read: "Sno use..."

 

[tfarny]

New York. Our mess is coming tonight, but we're pretty used to awful weather so it's not as big a deal.  :sad1:

 

[JaySwear]

it's definitely on it's way! i just finished my last driveway-clearing of the night (at almost 12PM). last time i let it sneak up on me, and the next day i had 2 feet of snow to shovel. i have a bad back (yes, even at 21  :-\ ) and didn't quite know how bad my back was until then haha this time i'm determined to keep up. at least somewhat.

 

[m4rk0]

*cough* Saab has been American since the mid-90's... *cough*

haha! not anymore!!!