Do you fall out with your car over winter?

[vince]

Every winter due to the poor weather and lack of time to spend messing and fixing up little things on my car, i always find myself losing interest in whatever car i own....Im just not the kind of car owner who can live with a simple A to B car....which winter turns them into.....

I presume if i had a garage then with heater in tow id maintain my enthusiasm throughout winter.....Its with trepidation and equal enthusiasm that I list the jobs i have to get done on the car at the start of this year....today would have been a good day to start but again it was too damn cold

Winter blues eh

[Citroenmad]

I don't, the thing which annoys me about winter is i can't keep the car clean, which i like doing. As far as jobs on the cars go, they are still there and still need doing, so even if its freezing then i still try and get some things done with the cars. Id struggle to do it without the garage though.

Time is always a thing in winter for me though, usually a busy time with work and uni, the nights draw in so early that its virtually impossible to get many other things done with the cars other than the routine weekly checks.

Having to defrost the cars every morning does mean my family of 4 only use the 4 main cars and leave the rest for better weather.

Im looking forward to slightly warmer weather so I can get the non daily cars out again, and start doing a few more things with them.

[addo]

winter

What is this word?

What does it mean?

[Homer]

First job I ever did on my own car was replace the brake pipes (on a Reliant Regal) in Feb, in my mums back garden, in 4 inch of snow.

The snow made it much easier to slide under the car.

Many is the time I would warm up the engine before working under the bonnet of my BX(s).

[R9UKE]

Vince, so glad somebody else experiences this!

Every winter, the Mégane goes wrong some way... and it doesn't help that my MOT expires a few days before Christmas. This year the car has developed an unsolveable CHECK INJECTION fault after it cut out in traffic back in late November. The temperatures also prompt the auto wipers to throw up a fault on the dash and refuse to work, and the lock buttons freeze on the door handles, so I have to take my keys out of my pocket to lock it. Then only one mirror wants to fold electrically.

Bring on the summer. Panoramic roof open, windows down and a happy Mégane.

[Paul-R]

I used to have a Christmas tradition of taking the engine out of my car (then an MG Midget) for one reason or another. One year it would be to change the clutch, the next year the gearbox would need replacing, another year the engine itself would have something wrong with it.

I had to pray that the weather would be dry, even if it couldn't be warm. This was thirty-five years ago, of course, and I had a lot more enthusiasm and energy then!

[Citroenmad]

The only problem my 04 C5 had during the winter months was an annoying trim rattle from the ashtray plastic on cold mornings, which soon went. Thats it, nothing else! It just performed as normal, thats what i like to see

Its MOT was also due around Christmas time but it didn't require anything.

I did service it around the same time though, but that was easily bearable. I dont mind being out in the winter weather doing car jobs. Im happier when i dont have to though

Christmas of 2009 me and my dad spent a lot of the holiday outside putting the engine back into the traction and building it all back up. It was freezing, snow on the ground etc. The garage gave some shelter from the cold, it was still below freezing! Was very good though, very worthwhile!

Sounds like your Mégane is a real summer lover!

[dnsey]

The snow made it much easier to slide under the car. Very Happy

You don't need to get under a Reliant, you just tip the car over

[evilally]

Yes, I've had the rear axle of my 405 sat in the conservatory since November It's all refurbished ready to go on, but I really cannot be bothered rolling around on freezing monoblock in the rain. I've been using my Clio as my daily runner, but it costs £200 a month in petrol

[Xantia Colin]

God I'm sick of the winter.

For some reason I have about a million mots due over the winter, the ground is cold and wet, and it's pitch dark, how many bl**dy wishbone bushes can one possibly ever need to replace?

I have in the past sold several cars due to the winter falling out of love effect, only to regret it when the summer comes rolling around. I have even uttered these words in recent weeks, but no, I must resist, the better weather is just round the corner......

[vince]

winter

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great one Addo Its what us poor buggers are stuck with 11 months a year and yes i did type that right

Good words there Colin, ive said that to myself a few times over christmas...soon e warm and sunny again.....Yes Adam i know its probably blazing over there now

[ACTIVE8]

winter

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What does it mean?

great one Addo Its what us poor buggers are stuck with 11 months a year and yes i did type that right

Good words there Colin, ive said that to myself a few times over christmas...soon e warm and sunny again.....Yes Adam i know its probably blazing over there now

Set to the Pussycat Dolls tune.......

Don't you wish your weather was hot like ours..........Don't you?

Well yes, it wouldn't go amiss, and it would certainly be useful, comfortable, and maintenance friendly!

[addo]

We know you're salivating at the thought of Julia Bradbury in a swimming costume.

It's been warm lately - a little damp in the late afternoons but generally good enough. As the weather people like to remind us, it's already Autumn...

[myglaren]

We know you're salivating at the thought of Julia Bradbury in a swimming costume.

It's been warm lately - a little damp in the late afternoons but generally good enough. As the weather people like to remind us, it's already Autumn...

JB

[lexi]

It's been a genuine 6 month winter here in Scotland. The snow came in Nov and it is still here in the hills and below freezing at night.