Viewing: I hate working on cars in the Winter

***waynne*** · 06-01-2009, 11:18 AM

When it is freezing cold I really hate doing any work on a car. Even changing a bulb or checkig tyre pressures results in blue knuckles.

What do you do when it is cold and you have a job to do on your car? Its pretty tempting to just take it into the local garage for them to sort

**charger69** · 06-01-2009, 11:48 AM

at least you work. i don't at all, especially this winter unfortunately

**pgarner** · 06-01-2009, 12:25 PM

leave it till a day off that way i can have coffee on standby the whole time

**wezzel98765** · 06-01-2009, 12:34 PM

I look at www.bbc.co.uk/weather ... then decide which day will be best

**prevtec** · 06-01-2009, 01:23 PM

be a man waynne, not a mouse, but i know what your saying., even the slightest breeze will cut through you
what i do is put up my hoody and have my hands warm before i go outside, it helps

***old-git*** · 06-01-2009, 01:24 PM

Any serious work can be done in a carpeted and heated garage

However, I have done the lying on the wet road in winter with spanners frozen to my hands thing, so I can sympathise with those less fortunate.

But I am still in smug mode

**prevtec** · 06-01-2009, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by old-git

Any serious work can be done in a carpeted and heated garage

However, I have done the lying on the wet road in winter with spanners frozen to my hands thing, so I can sympathise with those less fortunate.

But I am still in smug mode

thats the attitude, "im stronger than any weather agghh" lol

**marti5** · 06-01-2009, 01:42 PM

Its not that cold, when I lived in Belgium in the winter in got down to -22 one night, but you still have to keep the car in tip-top condition cold or not!!!

**stamford** · 06-01-2009, 01:50 PM

I miss my last house as I had a double garage and a heater. Where we moved to now has plenty of room and off road parking but a small garage that I cannot fit a car in. I hope to build an extension sometime as I will need the room to build my hotrod.

I was always in the garage during the winter months building next seasons car, I miss that. However I still get out there in the cold and under the car, just wrap up well.

**Twamgl3** · 06-01-2009, 01:54 PM

I swapped a carburettor on my Fiesta last week. On the drive. I made sure I did it all in one go so I wouldn't be in and out of the house. It would have been too easy to decide it was too cold and go in and have a warm cup of coffee and then stay in!

It took me 2 hours despite being a simple job. It didn't help I dropped a torx head on the gravel drive - I found it the first time and then the second time it took me fifteen minutes before I gave up. I can always buy another one but it saddens me to see a gap in my tool box!

I also found that the thermostat was sticking so this weekend just gone. I boiled it in a saucepan to check it was working and then I put it back on the car with my finger in the expansion tank. When it finally switched over I nearly boiled my finger!

The only time the conditions have stopped me working on a car is when it is too darkr to see of if it is raining very hard. The worst I've had to put up with was changing an engine mount and a driveshaft in a few inches of snow.

**turbonutter69** · 07-01-2009, 01:35 PM

I took the turbo,manifold and intercooler out of the Ti the other day. I've been known to work on cars in all weathers. My mum does have a garage but it filled with a scoob that hardly goes anywhere.....