In praise of the heated steering wheel

[Gliderman8]

This thread is long-finished, but I came across the below image on another forum, and it made me smile.

I've come to relissh my heated steering wheel as the weather has turned properly cold. But the other day I complained to my daughter that while my steering wheel is heated, my shifter is not - and it's always a cold "shock" when shifting gears.

Yeah, yeah, I know, first world problems...

But a solution exists! (Not my car, nor am I getting one.)

View attachment 101922

My first thought…. Gloves.

 

[Popeye]

My first thought…. Gloves.

Way too easy!!

Of course you are right, and what I normally do. But it is funny how technology I never thought I needed - and never would have paid for - has managed to alter what I consider "normal".

 

[Gliderman8]

I’ve driven my Lambretta in 17 degrees. Even with gloves on shifting was arctic.

 

[Popeye]

I’ve driven my Lambretta in 17 degrees. Even with gloves on shifting was arctic.

17 degrees on a two-stroke!! I'm impressed - you are a braver man than me!!

 

[Basil]

It was 3 degrees F this morning and I had to take my granddaughter to school this AM. Having heated seats and heated steering wheel was a blessing

 

[Gliderman8]

17 degrees on a two-stroke!! I'm impressed - you are a braver man than me!!

If “braver”=“insane” then yes I’m braver

 

[waltesefalcon]

Wait until Darwin comes along and tells us of the Montana winter he drove his Spitfire without a top. It'll make us all look like wimps.

Truly, it's amazing what people can adapt to. In the 80s one of my dad's hest friends wintered in an old chicken coop in the San Luis Valley. How he didn't freeze is beyond me.

 

[Basil]

Wait until Darwin comes along and tells us of the Montana winter he drove his Spitfire without a top. It'll make us all look like wimps.

Truly, it's amazing what people can adapt to. In the 80s one of my dad's hest friends wintered in an old chicken coop in the San Luis Valley. How he didn't freeze is beyond me.

Woud you belive that I had a 77 Spitfire when I was stationed in Montana? (But I never drove it in winter with the top down)

 

[Hamish Racing]

This thread is long-finished, but I came across the below image on another forum, and it made me smile.

I've come to relissh my heated steering wheel as the weather has turned properly cold. But the other day I complained to my daughter that while my steering wheel is heated, my shifter is not - and it's always a cold "shock" when shifting gears.

Yeah, yeah, I know, first world problems...

But a solution exists! (Not my car, nor am I getting one.)

View attachment 101922

8 speed ?

 

[waltesefalcon]

Woud you belive that I had a 77 Spitfire when I was stationed in Montana? (But I never drove it in winter with the top down)

Was it your blue one?

 

[Basil]

Was it your blue one?

Actually it was a medium green, like this one.

 

[John Turney]

 

[AngliaGT]

Wait until Darwin comes along and tells us of the Montana winter he drove his Spitfire without a top. It'll make us all look like wimps.

Truly, it's amazing what people can adapt to. In the 80s one of my dad's hest friends wintered in an old chicken coop in the San Luis Valley. How he didn't freeze is beyond me.

Or Doc,with tall tales of it being in the 50's in Florida.