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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I've yet to meet a car where the wipers *don't* leave smears. My
> previous two cars have both had dozens of wiper blades, all to no avail.
That's why you have to scrub the road grease off.
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Forget "focus follows mouse." When do
I get "focus follows gaze"?
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>> I've yet to meet a car where the wipers *don't* leave smears. My
>> previous two cars have both had dozens of wiper blades, all to no avail.
>
> That's why you have to scrub the road grease off.
And how do you do that?
If the car wash can't shift it, and two young Polish lads with buckets
can't scrub it off, I'm not sure what else to try...
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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
news:4b6b2ede$1@news.povray.org...
> >> Clean the driver-side wiper. If that doesn't help,
change it.
> >
> > That, and scrub the road grease off the window. And
clean the other
> > wiper while you're at it, if it pushes into the space
used by the
> > driver's side wiper.
>
> I've yet to meet a car where the wipers *don't* leave
smears. My
> previous two cars have both had dozens of wiper blades,
all to no avail.
Have you tried Rain-X? It gets good reviews from actual
users.
http://www.rainx.com/
http://www.epinions.com/reviews/Rain_X_Glass_Treatment_and_Cleaner
Demonstration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1S_Jm_FwM0
Some people love it, some don't...
Rain-X people also make wipers.
~db
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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
news:4b6b2f93$1@news.povray.org...
> For example, there was a hole
> under the accelerator pedal where you can watch the road
go past below.
A Flintstone car? :)
~db
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>> For example, there was a hole
>> under the accelerator pedal where you can watch the road
> go past below.
>
> A Flintstone car? :)
I tell you what, you'd need to be more like Popeye than Fred to shift
this lump of pig iron!
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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
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> >> For example, there was a hole
> >> under the accelerator pedal where you can watch the
road
> > go past below.
> >
> > A Flintstone car? :)
>
> I tell you what, you'd need to be more like Popeye than
Fred to shift
> this lump of pig iron!
My manual trans Subaru Outback has a lot of trouble shifting
into reverse. Sometimes I have to take the parking brake off
and rock the car back and forth (you know, while sitting in
the driver's seat, start rocking) in order to get it into
reverse. Trannies in my last 3 Subarus have been crappy...
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DungBeatle wrote:
> My manual trans Subaru Outback has a lot of trouble shifting
> into reverse. Sometimes I have to take the parking brake off
> and rock the car back and forth (you know, while sitting in
> the driver's seat, start rocking) in order to get it into
> reverse. Trannies in my last 3 Subarus have been crappy...
Ah yes, my first car had a similar issue. It's not so bad if the car is
already moving when you try to select reverse. But if not... well, I
hope you got muscle! o_O
Then again, that car had been back to zero TWICE... And it was a Ford
when they manufactured it.
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DungBeatle wrote:
> Have you tried Rain-X? It gets good reviews from actual
> users.
Yeah, that stuff's the bomb too. :-)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Forget "focus follows mouse." When do
I get "focus follows gaze"?
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On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:40:00 +0000, Stephen wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:14:17 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:37:40 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How?
>>>> Your examiner was blind? ;-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Nor drunk.
>>
>> Hmmm...you weren't in the UK?
>>
>>
> Aberdeen
Doing a test at the proving ground and the test objective was to get away
from something that was about to explode as fast as you could? ;-)
Jim
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On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:32:58 +0000, Invisible wrote:
> What I liked most was the warning to never put the seatbelt under your
> arm or behind your back. It seems so *ludicrously* obvious that this
> will result in horrifying bodily injury that I cannot believe anybody
> would do something so stupid...
>
> ...and yet, they bothered to print the warning, so...
When shoulder belts first started being used, people who didn't want them
would route them in weird places so they would just have the lap belt.
Just like people who grew up driving without a seat belt on at all - many
have a hard time just putting the belt on. Me, I can't drive even to a
new parking space - or back down the driveway - with my seatbelt off. It
just feels weird.
Jim
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