Handbrakes In The Ice!

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EssexExile wrote: »

That's what garages are for.

Garages were where you kept the Austin 1100, because it wouldn't start in the morning if it was outside.
Now they are converted to the "extra bedroom" and most of the household cars are parked on the street.

The last time it snowed (around 1982 I guess) I turned into our road in my rearwheel drive car and it spun round twice, but didn't hit anything as there were no cars parked on the road. Try that now and you'd take out about a dozen :eek:

Hermione_Granger

arcon5 wrote: »

Actually they usually come on with windscreen dentist setting.
Also since refrigerant boiling point, let alone freezing point, is about -20.. pretty unlikely our temps are gonna freeze anything

Not freeze anything?
The aircon on my Golf will only come on if the ambient temperature is 5c or above.
If this wasn't the case, you would have water in the condenser and associated drains and irrespective of what temperature the refrigerant freezes at, this water will freeze at 0c and could cause very expensive damage if this occurred.

LandyAndy

arcon5 wrote: »

Actually they usually come on with windscreen dentist setting.

There's a job to get your teeth into.

arcon5

Hermione_Granger wrote: »

Not freeze anything?
The aircon on my Golf will only come on if the ambient temperature is 5c or above.
If this wasn't the case, you would have water in the condenser and associated drains and irrespective of what temperature the refrigerant freezes at, this water will freeze at 0c and could cause very expensive damage if this occurred.

Thats why ac systems have receiver dryers and vent

NBLondon

facade wrote: »

Garages were where you kept the Austin 1100, because it wouldn't start in the morning if it was outside.
Now they are converted to the "extra bedroom" and most of the household cars are parked on the street.

If your house was built anywhere before the Austin 1100 (ADO 16 for the nerds out there) then you probably won't be able to get a modern car in it and still open the doors - hence they become junk stores. Where I live, some of the 30s houses have garages that are visibly narrower than the cars parked on the drive in front of them.

onomatopoeia99

NBLondon wrote: »

If your house was built anywhere before the Austin 1100 (ADO 16 for the nerds out there) then you probably won't be able to get a modern car in it and still open the doors - hence they become junk stores. Where I live, some of the 30s houses have garages that are visibly narrower than the cars parked on the drive in front of them.

Mine was built in 1951 and I can get my modern in, but I have to reverse it in so I can get the nearside within 1cm of the wall and that gives just about enough room to open the door for me to get out.

With all the crash protection the doors are very thick and being a two door, long as well, so it is something of an exercise in contortion to get in and out of the car while parked in the garage (which is 8'x22')


The Austin 1100 had an SU carb as I recall, and consequently provided it was kept in tune (as well as the ignition timing and points gap being correct), then just like a Mini it would go on barely 1/4 turn of the engine on the starter, even on a below freezing morning.

oldagetraveller

"The condensers will freeze at low temperatures, thats the puddle under the car on a hot day. They get a layer of condensation on them or worse."

No, that's the evaporator.:)

Jackmydad

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

Mine was built in 1951 and I can get my modern in, but I have to reverse it in so I can get the nearside within 1cm of the wall and that gives just about enough room to open the door for me to get out.

With all the crash protection the doors are very thick and being a two door, long as well, so it is something of an exercise in contortion to get in and out of the car while parked in the garage (which is 8'x22')


The Austin 1100 had an SU carb as I recall, and consequently provided it was kept in tune (as well as the ignition timing and points gap being correct), then just like a Mini it would go on barely 1/4 turn of the engine on the starter, even on a below freezing morning.

Had quite a few Minis over the years. They all "slept outside"
Only problem I ever had with starting was damp on the leads. Squirt of WD40 cured that.