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abscate wrote: 10 Mar 2021, 04:38 The pain of having to buy a new battery in March, when you know if you van just get one more month out of it , you can wait until a November.....
Yeah.. Just if it had slightly more juice... Or i have had budget earlier replace battery with capacitors. :roll:

850 LPT wrote: 10 Mar 2021, 05:52
xanthefin wrote: 10 Mar 2021, 00:25 Image

Sometimes annoying if hurry.


Now 7 year old Bosch Silver S4 battery 70ah is dying on coldness and waiting tomorrow will be on discount new one. Will change ASAP.
Looks like you have outlet boxes for engine heaters? That's awesome!
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Finally found this pic from the past from just driving in snow "storm" for 20 minutes. :)

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xanthefin wrote: 01 Apr 2021, 12:54 Image

Finally found this pic from the past from just driving in snow "storm" for 20 minutes. :)
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April Fools!

Xan...I spent three years in Helsinki, Tampere, Oulu, and Turku.

It was good preparation for my cold weather mechanic work here in NY in a balmy -10C
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xanthefin wrote: 01 Apr 2021, 12:54 Image

Finally found this pic from the past from just driving in snow "storm" for 20 minutes. :)
On the positive side, at least you had a tailwind. In Sailor Speak, it would be a following sea.
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That’s the one that makes me puke the fastest....
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Funny thing about Finland is seeing speed signs completely covered in snow, cant see what speed limit is yet the speed camera next to it is snow free.

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abscate wrote: 02 Apr 2021, 03:06 April Fools!

Xan...I spent three years in Helsinki, Tampere, Oulu, and Turku.

It was good preparation for my cold weather mechanic work here in NY in a balmy -10C
You like traveling work or?
foggydogg wrote: 02 Apr 2021, 09:32 On the positive side, at least you had a tailwind. In Sailor Speak, it would be a following sea.
:mrgreen:
darylrobert wrote: 13 Apr 2021, 06:14 Funny thing about Finland is seeing speed signs completely covered in snow, cant see what speed limit is yet the speed camera next to it is snow free.
One location i hate cameras is to put them almost directly behind random signs. You can't spot them before too late almost if driving car but vans and higher you can see them.

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We got a bit of snow today, took a pic after snow blowing.
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xanthefin wrote: 25 Apr 2021, 01:06
abscate wrote: 02 Apr 2021, 03:06 April Fools!

Xan...I spent three years in Helsinki, Tampere, Oulu, and Turku.

It was good preparation for my cold weather mechanic work here in NY in a balmy -10C
You like traveling work or?
foggydogg wrote: 02 Apr 2021, 09:32 On the positive side, at least you had a tailwind. In Sailor Speak, it would be a following sea.
:mrgreen:
darylrobert wrote: 13 Apr 2021, 06:14 Funny thing about Finland is seeing speed signs completely covered in snow, cant see what speed limit is yet the speed camera next to it is snow free.
One location i hate cameras is to put them almost directly behind random signs. You can't spot them before too late almost if driving car but vans and higher you can see them.

Old thread. I remember too, I was warned that speeding tickets are “ socialized”, which would be a cool practice here for driving like a “ Richard”
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