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Title: When was the last time.......?
Post by: hazza_ek on December 17, 2010, 07:32:00 PM
......you drove your rx7?

Now the winter is in full flow I was just wondering how many rx7s get tucked away?

Mines been cleaned, detailed inside and out put in my heated garage and covered for the past 5 weeks :( every Sunday it gets turned on for 15mins and sometimes rnd the block then put bk under the cover!

Can\'t wait till the spring lol

Is anyone else as anal as me?
Title: When was the last time.......?
Post by: captainbizzaro on December 17, 2010, 08:32:34 PM
Mine always goes away around October and doesn\'t surface till April-ish.
Title: When was the last time.......?
Post by: Will66 on December 17, 2010, 08:37:10 PM
Mine comes out most weeks winter or summer.
Title: When was the last time.......?
Post by: captainbizzaro on December 17, 2010, 08:39:45 PM
I bet yours doesn\'t start rusting in front of your eyes when it\'s salty though lol
Title: When was the last time.......?
Post by: noyzboy on December 17, 2010, 08:48:02 PM
Mine was out on Sunday for a pub lunch \'cos it hadn\'t moved for about 6 weeks, and then straight back in the garage and back on the trickle charger.
Electric windows were veeeery slow in this cold weather.

Martin H
Title: When was the last time.......?
Post by: Ada7 on December 17, 2010, 09:59:34 PM
Mine has been sat outside and not moved for the past month i think.
I disconected the battery to stop that from going flat. Once the snow clears i\'ll take it out for a spin again :D

Adam
Title: When was the last time.......?
Post by: Nik da Greek on December 18, 2010, 12:08:06 AM
Drive mine every day I have to drive to work (which is mostly). Maybe not today though, as they\'re predicting 8 inches of snow.....
Title: When was the last time.......?
Post by: goldk28611 on December 18, 2010, 06:24:30 AM
Drove mine to work last night, driving home in a min and driving it back again tonight...

Use mine daily back and fore work and driving around town... my only car :(
(it has taken a few years and lots of ££\'s to get a reliable daily out of it though, very \'appy now though :D)
Title: When was the last time.......?
Post by: hazza_ek on December 18, 2010, 08:59:05 AM
Brave man using it as a daily! I\'ve got a ....ty 1.4 Clio for work and evenings! Absolutely hate driving it but saves me a fortune on fuel haha
Title: When was the last time.......?
Post by: Steve-A on December 18, 2010, 09:00:17 AM
Gonna drive my rotary 5 the 25 miles home from my girlfriends in an hour or two. I use it everyday :)

Toyos + not much ground clearance + rwd 50/50 weight balance + 2 or 3 inches of snow = big fun.
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Post by: SiH on December 18, 2010, 09:14:43 AM
September :( Because I\'m an idiot and keep pulling it to bits.
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Post by: clive on December 18, 2010, 08:09:13 PM
You gotta be joking, our toys out in the winter :rollin:rollin:rollin
Title: When was the last time.......?
Post by: goldk28611 on December 18, 2010, 10:44:02 PM
Drove mine to work tonight in the snow!!!! how much fun was that!!! :D:D
Title: When was the last time.......?
Post by: Nik da Greek on December 19, 2010, 10:23:33 AM
Quote from: goldk28611;733201Drove mine to work tonight in the snow!!!! how much fun was that!!! :D:D
You obviously have more fun snow than we do here, Aaron :eek: I\'ve not been having much fun. It\'s not the snow so much as the ice that\'s giving me a problem :(
Title: When was the last time.......?
Post by: Steve-A on December 19, 2010, 10:27:45 AM
I had great fun driving in the snow, but we ended up with 9" yesterday so once my lip spoiler started working as a snow plough it was time to give up and turn back before I got stuck!
 
Made it a whole mile or so :( The girlfriends standard height, thin tired, weight over the driving wheels econo-box faired much better, booooo.
Title: When was the last time.......?
Post by: Nik da Greek on December 19, 2010, 10:31:59 AM
Lol, rear wheel drive sucks in snow. I\'m actually going to get the train to work today (if there is such a thing). The ice coming back the last few nights has just been not funny at all, and it\'d be annoying to kill myself or wrap the car up on my last shift of work before Chrimbo :HammerAfter that I don\'t mind so much but I want my week\'s holiday first :rollin
Title: When was the last time.......?
Post by: pdtaylor18 on December 20, 2010, 10:00:08 PM
Mines in hibernation for the winter now and under cover, its actually a pretty good car cover and ever so slightly better than Grinders shower curtain lol
Mine is too low for winter and tyres too fat so would never get anywhere apart from going in circles on the spot!! Good fun but wanna keep my car on the road. I\'ll start it up every now and then and take for a spin before putting the covers back on. Got my little diesel Corsa to do the running around, its crap but cheap motoring.
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Post by: shaunwil on December 21, 2010, 06:03:19 PM
Drove my FB this morning and the Vapouriser Froze over. Basically got no gas getting to the carb. Stuggled home and worked from there. Think I\'ll have to do a service on the vapouriser and carb before using car again !

This is by far the coldest the LPG has been run. Amazing when you open the bonnet on a warm engine with the fans running and the Vapouriser is covered in frost ! Only happened before when I had an airlock !

Shaun
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Post by: Skifledanabit on December 22, 2010, 01:28:48 AM
mine\'s a daily too... going to see what the rust issue is like in the spring, had a good look under there the day after I got her, so we shall see, I hate walking, and I hate public transport more!!!
Title: When was the last time.......?
Post by: gsb876 on December 22, 2010, 03:54:19 PM
before i sold mine it was used every winter, never really had an issue unless crazy ice or snow
Title: When was the last time.......?
Post by: Dan Norton on December 22, 2010, 04:17:42 PM
Quote from: gsb876;733578before i sold mine it was used every winter, never really had an issue unless crazy ice or snow

In the two winters i had mine, it was the same.

Mind you, the two winters i did have it were incredibley mild compared to what we are experiencing now.