2005 1.0 Opel Corsa on a hot summer day ahh feeling. Brings back memories
The Old Car Summertime Struggle
Submitted 1 month ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Nomad@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Yes, don’t idle in the sun without running the blower full tilt on warm with the windows down or risk your motor overheating.
Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
2003 1.2 Vauxhall Corsa (which I still own!), yeah had to hit that boost button, god it was slow with aircon on.
bridgeburner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ASS
courval@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“pass”? Is that American English for overtake?
GrilledCheese@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Yes, and it is said in Canada as well
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 month ago
usually we hang our balls out the window as we overtake, which makes it a pass.
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Or when we’re being family-friendly, we just press or hang a “full moon”. We’re not savages, after all.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Didn’t realize that term wasn’t used in British English.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I was wondering why you had to turn the air conditioning off just to be able to drive past someone.
krisevol@lemmus.org 1 month ago
Ice vehicles automatically turn off the AC at wide open throttle.
redsand@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Some do if the belt drives the compressor. Humans have built many cars, exceptions exist
krisevol@lemmus.org 1 month ago
Belts drive the clutch. I haven’t seen a single production car that has a direct driven compressor.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I bought a used electric car. I just put my foot down and it goes … Well, it doesn’t go voom, it just goes. Might squeel the tires a little, but otherwise silent power.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Same. I switched 13 years ago and for the life of me cannot understand why more people didn’t make the same switch. It’s so cheap
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
This would be how I feel driving my Miata if my Miata came with AC. I just don’t attempt to pass.
waz@feddit.uk 1 month ago
MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
My brother’s first car was a 1989 Dodge Colt. He couldn’t run heat, wipers, and headlights at the same time. So driving at night, in the winter, when it was raining, became this dance of running the wipers until your ass was almost frozen to the seat, then turning them off and running the heat until you were almost blind, then repeat.
Atropos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I would guess that would have had vacuum powered wipers. And the heat comes from the engine - was the blower motor really struggling that bad with the headlights on? I don’t mean to sound skeptical, but this is really surprising to me!
moncharleskey@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Vacuum wipers in 1989? 59 maybe. Sounds like the alternator output was too weak to keep up with the electrical demand of headlights, blower, and wipers.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I would also like to autopsy this car.
MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I have no idea. He was also like, the third owner, so it’s quite possible that things were failing.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My first brand-new car was a '90 Nissan Sentra, back when Sentras were the absolute bottom of Nissan’s product line. It had AC but the car basically couldn’t accelerate with it on unless I was going downhill. Unfortunately I lived in Florida (no hills) so I drove around with no AC. In Florida. This was bad enough but also the windows were hand-cranked so I just left them down all the time. That car was a soggy mess and I kept getting shit stolen.
sunbytes@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What would happen if you ran them all?
Blown fuse or just all of them ran like crap/stuttery?
MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Just ran like crap. Headlights too dim to see, etc.