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I really, really appreciate the electrically heated windscreen. I also like TC.

I don't like those city SUV 18" rims in the winter. They get clogged with snow, that becomes ice, and the car behaves like a centrifuging washing machine. I really would like to drive on 16" steel rims next winter instead.

How did they think when they designed the rear bumper? To open the rear door you have to shovel the bumper first, since it's a perfect shelf for snow to rest at. Then you open the door, scratching the underside against ice. Now and then you have to knock the ice of with some kind of tool. Today, doing this work, I broke the plastic moulding which had frosen into non elasticy.

Othewise, it's extremely meditative to drive along the roads these days when there's almost no traffic. Strangely enough you don't bother really that you have to spend ten minutes to go around the car peeling off clogged snow from the underside every time you park at home...

It's so much more than a car...

go snow

Heavy snowfall during the night made morning traffic fun in a Land Rover. Only the main roads were cleared, but that doesn't bother us really. It's Saturday, so there wern't many people out. I found the first stuck car about a hundred meters from home. Since I was in a hurry, I had to leave him in his struggle. After my first commission this morning, I found the road blocked by an abandonned car. So, I had to reverse to find another way. I reversed for about a hundred meters, when I saw a car with flashing hazard lights. I looked forward to use my survival kit in the back, but strangely also this car was abandonned with no one in sight. Well TC was enough to help me plogh an uphill slope and escape the "chaos".

I found many reasons to get out driving today. But in the afternoon many ways had been cleared. But now (ten in the evening) it's snowing again, so I look forward to another day filled with errands you just have to do... :)

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When you're doing a cold start...

...it's nice to dream away for a while.