Posted on 03/05/2011 6:30:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
“Why Oh Why does The United States Of America put up with this Crap?”
I don’t. I buy old - pre JKs with the straight 6 - Wranglers on Craigslist for a couple grand, put a grand into fixing them up, drive them for a year and sell them around November at a nice profit. Plus they have insta-heat. Turn the key and there’s already warm air coming out the ducts. You could broil a chicken by hanging it from the dash if you wanted.
Why they want you to drive a battery operated car that hasn’t been properly tested is beyond me.
1)...Why does a VOLT have heated rear windows?
....to keep your hands warm when pushing through snow drifts.
2. ...How do you double the value of a VOLT?
....put a spare battery pack on the back seats.
3)... How do you prevent your VOLT from being stolen?
....take the battery pack with you.
I read somewhere GM only sold 280-something volts in a month.
And let’s not forget the 45 billion dollar tax break GM is getting on future earnings — the WSJ had an article about it.
Don’t worry... Global warming and all.
Outrigger sails—to provide balance—and a little wood or coal-burning stove for winter driving?
.....release the carrier pigeon if less than 30 miles from home
5)...So what happens in the event you are stuck in a snow drift more than 30 miles from home?
....eat the carrier pigeon.
Hey, man. Don’t put down the Yugo yet. Where else will they get cars for those really bad Russian out destructo shows?
It sounds like the old VW. The driver had a warm left foot, and the remainder was cold.
You could also make it like the old Fords, where you had a gasoline powered heater. Or...
“If you’ve ever driven on old VW Beetle in the winter, having to wear heavy clothing (and keep a scraper in the car for the INSIDE of the windows) is not a particularly novel experience....”
You just brought up a suppressed memory for me. LOL!!
I’ll stick to my 11-year old Focus, thank you. The defrosters are one of the great features on it.
They can in my state. You can get a restricted license at the ripe old age of 14. We do a lot of things differently.
VW’s are actually pretty easy to heat.
The old heater boxes on the exhaust manifold were a joke.
Since vw’s lack a water system the engine still has hot oil to circulate.
Bolt on an external oil filter and route one of the lines to a regular heater core with a blower behind it and it works like any other car heater.
Why Oh Why does The United States Of America put up with this Crap?
Because America no longer produces “white jackets” and, long ago lost the will to use them.
In all fairness to the Beetle, I had a 74, and once I had new heaterboxes and new primary hoses from the box to the heating ducts, I actually had decent heat coming from the duct openings under the back seat. Once in a while, I could get it from the ducts on the floor, and the defrost worked pretty reliably. Now, the spare-tire-powered windshield washer on the other hand...
I’ve never seen one of these cars on the road. U?
Owned a ‘67 Beetle, ‘73 Beetle and a ‘71 VW bus...loved them all...but not for their interior climate conditioning!
The ‘71 Bus actually had a cracked heat exchanger, so I wound up taping off the heat vents so I wouldn’t die!
I’d still take ANY of those vehicles over the Volt.
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