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HPsauce 25th November 2016 08:55 PM

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...Just off Malahide, County dublin (last) Friday afternoon

Similar view, back in June after the epic tour!

aTOMic 26th November 2016 01:38 AM

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Originally Posted by HPsauce (Post 120291)
Similar view, back in June after the epic tour!

Mr. Sauce: Haha, I just sat down to my "recliner dinner" with tater tots and a big blob of HP Sauce! (Yes I learned about it from a username and a Brit somewhere...) I think it was Jakematic and/or K9Cop on AW... or YOU!

I HAVE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROOF (damn caps lock) but cant get it on... here!

47p2 26th November 2016 06:13 AM

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Lots of frost here the past week but the sunshine has been out allowing some great views of Ben Lomond and the Arrochar Alps some 35 miles away

briang9 23rd December 2016 11:27 PM

well its 00.37 on Christmas Eve here in Bonnie Scotland and we have just had a wind driven hail, thunder and lightning storm that set off the RS6 Alarm and several others in the street, very weird weather:)

tc4332 24th December 2016 07:40 AM

At 04:00 on the M6 twixt Wigan and Preston rather squally, bursts of heavy rain and strong cross winds.
Nothing unusual really, mind I was warm and toasty in the bus. I love the night heater.

Norretal 29th December 2016 04:08 PM

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Minus 4 in County Durham this morning, and it's stayed that way all day

ainarssems 2nd January 2017 09:20 AM

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Not that cold today but look at this

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Audidothat 2nd January 2017 12:25 PM

Isn't the natural world beautiful!

pete-p 3rd January 2017 08:12 AM

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A frosty but clear start to the day in Weston this morning.

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aTOMic 3rd January 2017 11:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ainarssems (Post 122097)
Not that cold today but look at this...

Wow, that's the coolest wrap I've ever seen! ;)

Mother Nature does some nice work.

Hard to capture photographically, I bet. Hats off to you, ainarssems.

So it's 6:30 PM in TN, USA; and three days into January, the high was 69F today. Raining lightly. Going down to 32F for the low, and supposedly 20F low tomorrow night. VWAG needs to test its cars door seals here; many times this (aforementioned weather sequence) happens and I am frozen out of a car. The doors with two sets of seals (e.g., B5 Passat, 4E/D3 A8) fill with ice and it's either heatgun + 30 minutes, or hope there's enough GummiPflege left on there to not rip the rubber off.
The cars also are coated by 3/4" of ice; on the door handles (A8) this results in complete immobility.

I will credit VWAG with one thing; the battery management. If one tries to get in and releases the latch (dome lights plus whatever else pulls the 6 amps) but can't get the door open - or fully closed - the car will still start the next day. My parents' Toyota killed its battery a couple times from this scenario. (before the A8s, I borrowed their AWD Highlander to get the kids to their (private) school which never has "snow days", unlike TN public schools which close at the slightest hint of freezing, but the Passat did OK. I just hated getting the garaged VW all dirty in the salty slush) ;).

I have also put a 1500w ceramic heater in the car on occasion. On a timer. Toasty, and I have oil pan heaters on most of the cars (I'm a "Yankee", so cut me some slack).


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