Author Topic: What do you call those things anyways? (Read 2109 times)

ericthejet · « **on:** December 20, 2004, 11:27:07 am »

BTW, do we have a term or expression for the salt/snow/slush buildup on car wheelwells and mudflaps? What do you call it when you spen a few seconds kicking them off. De-lumping? With the weather what it is today in Ottawa I would need some TNT to remove those things.

safristi · « **Reply #1 on:** December 20, 2004, 11:31:59 am »

F*&%ing S#@$t....!!!! OR Dinglebergs..?? any other takers??? Dingle dangle all the way oh what fun it is when they finally break away...Dinglebergs,dinglebergs,dingle all the way...

..busted another pair of wingtips in the drive-a-way......where are the musical arrangers on the board....

mrthompson · « **Reply #2 on:** December 20, 2004, 12:05:56 pm »

Klingons.

Drivesideways · « **Reply #3 on:** December 20, 2004, 12:34:33 pm »

Oh and I thought klingons were what stuck to a dog's butt after "walkies".

Brigitte · « **Reply #4 on:** December 20, 2004, 01:12:14 pm »

Wellbergs?

Drivesideways · « **Reply #5 on:** December 20, 2004, 01:14:34 pm »

Flapfloppers?

ovr50 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 20, 2004, 01:16:55 pm »

At the risk of lowering the level - frozen road snot.

Mdxtasy · « **Reply #7 on:** December 20, 2004, 01:57:09 pm »

It is what it is....SNOW.

Sterling · « **Reply #8 on:** December 20, 2004, 02:16:56 pm »

"Oh and I thought klingons were what stuck to a dog's butt after "walkies"."

In Australia they call the same thing on sheep "dags."

jerry · « **Reply #9 on:** December 20, 2004, 02:17:41 pm »

I have often heard them called "Fenderbergs"
In fact I thought thats what everybody called them- must be a B.C. term.
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Roadrunner · « **Reply #10 on:** December 20, 2004, 04:02:27 pm »

Saffy headed off in the right direction until he got rhythm.

I call it pretty much the same thing except for a couple of variations. &%^)@$#!&^$ slushy (&*%^#@%!!*&
One thing I learned a long time ago though is not to try and use a snowscraper to get rid of it. The paint has a tendency to follow.
Unless it builds up to a point wherein it interferes with the tires (turning,etc.) I would just let it fall off on its own.
As long as it stays frozen, the salt won't eat at the car.

In a previous post on here today someone mentioned frozen windows/doors etc from washing the cars.
I couldn't help but smile when I seen a tow truck backing into a washbay at our local wash-it- yourself.

Here's a little hint for those who aren't TOO mechanically inclined. If you have power windows in your vehicle and find the windows are frozen shut, leave them that way until the rubber around the windows thaw. All you will succeed in doing is burning out the window motor by making it over-heat.

barrie1 · « **Reply #11 on:** December 20, 2004, 11:24:36 pm »

Excellent point Roadr as those Motors are expensive to replace as well. We call them big frozen chunks of Icey Snow "Clumps" as the noise they make when they fall off. Sorta a Clumping noise and the car lifts up about 3 feet in the air it seems from the sudden weight loss.

tpl · « **Reply #12 on:** December 21, 2004, 06:31:39 am »

Block heaters.
Audi dealer on A4 " we dont have them 'cos the only frost plug is under the turbo and the wiring would get fried"
BMW dealer on 3 series" The engine is aluminium and there isn't one and the warm coolant on a cold day would upset the emissions controls and anyway we have a really strong battery"

A pair of unsatisfactory arguments I thought. I asked what they did when they sold cars in Sask and got two different varieties of Germanic shrug.
Even in southern Ont there are days like this monday where a couple of hours of heat would make a lot of difference to engine wear on start up.

My solution is one of those tiny "smart" battery chargers.

Railton · « **Reply #13 on:** December 21, 2004, 08:35:29 am »

Grandpa Railton here folks.
Well way back in my day when Japanese cars were first coming over to North America they wouldn't start worth %&*# in the cold and you had to have a block heater of some sort installed if you were expecting your car to start at any temp below freezing.
The best engine heater I used was the type that you spliced into the heater core inlet/outlet hoses. The heater would heat up the anti-freeze solution and then pump it through the heater core and engine block. It worked great on my old 1971 Datsun 240Z. Don;t know if you can still get them.
There was another block heater that was actually a dipstick heater. I didn't ever try that one though so I can't say how well it worked.
Grandpa Railton

safristi · « **Reply #14 on:** December 21, 2004, 02:28:52 pm »

Easy there Paw...well bring ya a refreshed HOT WATER pig and some coal embers in a pan ta heat up yer RX8...why does yer dipstick need heated!!???

Roadrunner · « **Reply #15 on:** December 21, 2004, 02:42:31 pm »

A friend of mine tried one of those oil dipstick heaters. It barely got hot enough that you had to let go of the stick with your bare fingers.
In a word? Useless.

A number of years ago my wife and I took our kids downhill skiing at Fern Resort up north. Overnight the temp fell to -34C. Almost none of the customers cars would start.

An enterprising fellow with a huge parka and super thick mitts came by with a pickup truck in which a propane tank and torch at the end of a 25ft hose stood upright, attached to the side of the truck box and offered to start our cars for $10 a pop. NO problem!

He lit up and inside of three minutes of heating up the oil pan, had our car running.

safristi · « **Reply #16 on:** December 21, 2004, 02:51:29 pm »

Similar story ...after cross country skiing at Kananaskis..at Xmas(Alberta guys) our car started but others lit little bonfires with twigs,Coleman stoves whatever ...under their cars to thin the treacle...before SYNTHETIC was poop-U-lar.
Darn...NONE of them BLOWED UP real good!!!!

Author Topic: What do you call those things anyways? (Read 2109 times)

Mdxtasy

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