2005 1.0 Opel Corsa on a hot summer day ahh feeling. Brings back memories
The Old Car Summertime Struggle
Submitted 2 weeks ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Nomad@infosec.pub 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
ASS
courval@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“pass”? Is that American English for overtake?
GrilledCheese@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Yes, and it is said in Canada as well
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
usually we hang our balls out the window as we overtake, which makes it a pass.
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Didn’t realize that term wasn’t used in British English.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I was wondering why you had to turn the air conditioning off just to be able to drive past someone.
krisevol@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
Ice vehicles automatically turn off the AC at wide open throttle.
redsand@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Some do if the belt drives the compressor. Humans have built many cars, exceptions exist
krisevol@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
Belts drive the clutch. I haven’t seen a single production car that has a direct driven compressor.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I would also like to autopsy this car.
MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I have no idea. He was also like, the third owner, so it’s quite possible that things were failing.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
What would happen if you ran them all?
Blown fuse or just all of them ran like crap/stuttery?
MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Just ran like crap. Headlights too dim to see, etc.