Re: How to park this?

From: Jon (jonsdak@midmaine.com)
Date: Wed Dec 04 2002 - 20:25:07 EST


Haha! 3F is tropical...
It was -5 with a -30 wind chill this morning when I went out to start my
Dak, which didn't start, it was so cold the cheap battery my dad put in when
he killed it (anyone with a '96 knows how annoying that buzzer is. How does
one go about leaving the lights on?), died a rather undignified death,
leaving me to drive his Voyager. :-(

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-Jon
jonsdak@midmaine.com
http://jonsdakota.tripod.com
1996 Dodge Dakota Sport 4X4, 3.9L V6, 42RE, 3.92:1 8.25 axle, "BackRack"
Headache Rack,  Dodge Motorsports decals, steering wheel cover, and front
license plate, diamond-plate bedrail covers, Lund VentVisors, Lund
BugShield, Jensen MP-3310 CD/MP3 Receiver, Pioneer TS-G1347's in front,
TS-A5713's in rear

"andy levy" <andylevy@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ask2fl$s05$1@bent.twistedbits.net... > > Moved into a new apartment this summer so this if my first winter > dealing with this parking lot. Parking spaces are right against the > building and the roof slopes down towards it that in the rain there's a > "curtain" parallel with the facec of the building. > > Fast-forward to the last couple weeks. With the snow I typically park > ass-in so I can pull out easier. Trouble is, I now have a *huge* mass > of ice on the bumper, to the point where the license plate is 3/4 > obscured, and I'm not sure the tailgate will open due to the mass on the > top of the bumper. Fortunately, I've been parking far enough from the > wall that it's not coming down on the soft tonneau. > > Obviously I don't want to park nose-in, because I'll just b0rk all my > new bodywork up there (but ice over the radiator - work better than > cardboard!). Should I just grin & bear it, taking a bucket of hot water > to it every couple days to keep things in check, or should I try to talk > a neighbor into trading spaces with me so I can park much farther away > but out of the path of the ice? > > December 3 and the icicles hanging down from the edge of the roof are > longer than the bottom of my window (I'm on the top floor). This is > gonna be a long, cold winter (3F this morning). >



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