You forgot to address the Flying Ice Of Death. Which is what we’re all apparently “whining” about. Go ahead, I’m dying to see how it’s the dead guy’s fault.
Crybabies? Go back to NurseCarmen’s links and tell us we’re crybabies. In my 35 years of driving I can honestly say I have never seen ANYone going 20 miles an hour, four days after a snow that has been salted off. That is so beyond ridiculous that I have to say, I am actually giving your idiocy more dignity than it deserves.
Oh, and, bored with the thread? Then go away. Now.
If a snow brush damages your car, then yes - it is a PoS.
I’m not being the whiny little shit. You are. With your $20k PoS car.
‘oh - I dont want to touch my car with a snow brush. I’m too scared!’
If you are so concerned about the condition of the paint, then why dont you garage it for the winter and drive something else?
This has nothing to do with driving like a responsible adult - it has to do with a segment of the population that refuses to believe that their (in)action might actually be dangerous to other people on the road - intentional or not.
And like it or not - police see it as a road hazard as well. So suck it.
I’d go a step further. It’s a segment of the population that doesn’t care that their willful inaction presents a danger to other people on the road. Or worse, a segment of the population that values the paint job on their car over human life.
I know, I don’t get it. These idiots keep talking about blowing snow, when it’s been made patently clear that the far more dangerous condition we’ve been talking about is ICE.
Look dickweeds, the thread title is SNOW ONF THE ROOF. My posts address SNOW ON THE ROOF, and I got called to the carpet for it, then suddenly I am a huge asshole for driving with large piles of man-impaling ice on my car…but I never said anything about ice on the roof, nor that it’s the dead guy’s fault.
Any moron who thinks that a snow brush won’t leave scratches in your paint, especially a snowbrush that has been hardened by cold temps and snow, is just beyond stupid.
I don’t value my paint more than human life, but I’ve never killed anyone with blowing snow, not even when I aimed my snowblower RIGHT AT THEM. So I do value it marginally more than some asswipe who wants to complain about blowing snow, because, well, you’re an asshole who doesn’t belong on the road.
You want to complain about flying ice chunks? Go ahead. In fact, there was a thread last year where I promised to clear chunky ice off my car, because I was convinced. Snow, though? You want to complain about blowing snow? In the winter in Michigan? Go fuck yourself.
You know, you’re right. In your first post in this thread, you even said ice was dangerous. I’ll retract that.
Just remember, one of these assholes who doesn’t belong on the road might just be following you a bit too closely one day when all your snow comes blowing off. You think a snowbrush causes damage? Try getting rear-ended by some nitwit trying to find his windshield wipers.
Nice. Real nice.
Dick.
I’ve always lived in places that get cold and snowy in the winter (Alberta, 28 years in Edmonton and 1 year in Calgary). I’ve never seen anyone at all get paint damage from using a snow brush. No one I have ever talked to has even mentioned this as a possibility.
I can’t figure out how you could possibly think a snowbrush would damage your paint, unless maybe you never figured out that the scraper end is for the windows and the brush end is for the car.
I’ll admit…if the snow is really fluffy, like flour, I don’t brush it off my car. It blows off before I leave the parking lot. However, when there is a lot of snow/ice I try to get most of it off the roof of my car. I know I don’t get all of it, but I get most of it off.
Put on a few good coats of wax in late October or November if you are really worried about a snow brush damaging your paint. I’m also guessing that crazyjoe is one of the assholes doing 70 on an icy freeway and wondering why he ended up in a ditch.
He’s using one of those Michigan snow brushes, made of barbed wire.
Yeah, 22 years of driving in Western Canada with no garage and I’ve never scratched my car with a snow brush, either, and I use the cheapest ones I can find so I don’t care if I forget it on top of the car and drive off.
Or when you break the scraper trying to get ice off your car.
You’re just not a car person, then. The color layer of today’s cars is “protected” by a layer of clear-coat. As such, you can scratch up the clear coat pretty good without actually leaving a big, noticeable scratch in the color coat.
However, those scratches in the clearcoat are damage to the paint, and you can and will get them by using a snow brush on your car. Don’t beleive me? Ok, the next time it’s sunny, go out to your car and wash it up real nice. No wax, just wash the dirt off and dry it. Now, on the hood of your car, rub the snow brush cross-ways (from driver’s side to passenger side) several times. Then take a look at the paint. If your car is anything other than white, silver, or yellow, you’ll probably immediately notice tons of small streaks in the paint.
As for the snowblower thing, that was a joke. I have never intentionally nailed anyone with the snow from the snowblower.
The safety of the person behind me is STILL more important than invisible scratches on a car.
And I sort of thought (hoped) the snowblower comment was a joke. However, a couple of weeks ago a moron at the end of my street was so busy blowing his driveway snow into the street (illegal), he didn’t see me drive into his path. I couldn’t avoid his plume of snow, which contained god only knows what, and blinded me for several yards while I revved up my windshield wipers. Very scary.
Interestingly, I was checking out a very right-leaning board a couple of weeks ago, (you know, the “Obama is a muslim”, and conspiracy theory kind of place) and came across some people using this very same wording about the SDMB.
What a coincidence!
I suggest you hie yourself back to the aforementioned unnamed message board, where your dry subtle wit will be more appreciated. They love making fun of the “interlectuals” over there.