jtbo wrote:Bastardly cold weathers have upped petrol and oil prices again, petrol being near 1.6€/l and oil 1.3€/l, Santa is not helping either. Doing Christmas visits to family would cost 86.4€ with 360 and that is petrol alone with granny driving, with crappy FWD 39€ so that is 47.4€ savings in just one trip, sure there is expensive tax for owning a diesel vehicle, over 500€/year, but as I drove a lot that is quite quickly earned, under 10 000km.

I really can't love that crappy FWD, but what man would not do to save a few pennies?

Also modern petrol kills 360, so need to find some non Euro stuff for it...

Get an old diesel and run it on veg oil?

sven360 wrote:You two are getting old and the northerners are tight

I'd drive a 300 daily,less hassle than a yanktank.

Which one of us still has a roadworthy 300

Has Bill still got one on the road?

volvosneverdie wrote: Get an old diesel and run it on veg oil?

That is old diesel that I have (well, it can run on veggie oil, at summer I put veggie oil that has run out of date into tank), but veg oil costs even more, also guess what will happen to it outside of our temps? It will be rock solid, oh and we should pay then tax from non official fuel and that is about three times what my current tax is, wonderful, isn't it?

No, I'm not paying extra tax for litre or two that I put into tank, but law says that I should, however I rather choose which laws I follow

My 360 will need only little more welding and engine mounts, oh and bar that runs under engine, maybe exhaust too, then MOT and tax, after that it should be road worthy, not even very close road worthy?

Mine seems ok so far as a daily, has its issues but I do actually enjoy fixing it, even if it means kneeling down in the snow to get the brown fusebox plug fixed (again).

Picking mine up from the garage ... again ... today. In the last few months it's needed welding on the catalytic converter, shortly after the plastic engine shield fell off, destroying the steering rack concertina things (bushes?). Now the windscreen crack has advanced really far, so now I have a new windscreen ...

Other than that, my 360s still in hard, daily salt-road use. And it looks it too

Tom

It is rather expensive to heat a house when quicksilver is constantly around -20C or below, I really wonder when that warming kicks in, or is the new eco tax coming next year already saved the planet, even country's energy consumption is hitting all time high

Hour ago was only -20C, but it did stop snowing now and temperature plunged immediately down to -21C and falling fast.

Chris_C wrote:So have you two just given up on 300s and got his and her's diseasal Cav's then

In my defence mine was 130quid with 5 months test, accidentally listed in parts as spares or repair.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 500wt_1156

Sounds pretty bargainous mate, £130 for a ticketed motor at the moment is amazing.

trabitom99 wrote:... destroying the steering rack concertina things (bushes?).

I think you mean gaiters dude

Um, yes

Tom

Chris_C wrote:

sven360 wrote:You two are getting old and the northerners are tight

I'd drive a 300 daily,less hassle than a yanktank.

Which one of us still has a roadworthy 300


Has Bill still got one on the road?

a] Pass.Definitely not me I know that much.
b]Think John bought it.

Flinging thru traffic is definitely easier in a 300 than a left hooker with lazy v8 and cheaper.

Back to the weather-it's snowing for a change.
Feels a bit warmer too.

This morning coldest moment was -32.4C, now there is 'only' -31.4C, 24 hour average shows up to be -30.2C


Coldest temperature in whole 2010, also this day will have coldest average temperature for whole year as forecast is even colder for night

It is so cold that I can't open front door without gloves as my hand will stick to metal handle causing frost burns

Need to go to shop, but I doubt my french crap will start as last time I did fill up it did say deisel is only good for -32C (remember wind chill) and it has weak battery too

The house on the left is ours and the one on the right is empty (semi detatched).

Just shows how cold it's been, our brickwork is loosing heat but next door is literally freezing solid, I've never seen a house actually frozen before!

I don't know how you survive with -30 and worse. It must be a battle to keep the house from freezing.

Metal objects even here freeze to fingers if hands are damp, not nice!

-10 has become common now. At least this will make our summers feel hot!

We have insulation:


Google found image from one of my interweb friend's project when searching proper insulation pic, quite funny coincidence, but this is how our walls are, lot of insulation material 0.0036W/m2k or something like that thermal value, It can be that I remember one zero too many, but very little heat escapes from such material.


I have burned 0.04 cubic meters of firewood today + I have had bit over 1kW electric heating on, that does something like 72kW of energy transformed to heat, however as my fireplace is not best possible I get only around 50% of heat into house, so it is bit over 43kW of energy that has been warming the house, here is +20C inside and -30.1C outside.

I'm bit scared of how water pipes and sewers are taking this cold, but so far all good. I should go to shop, but for that I need to warm up car with electric heater, takes around 3 hours, then I need to drive very careful so that I don't brake anything, metal starts to become bit fragile already in these temps.

Cat is asking food, it's food froze again

Hell Driver wrote: I don't know how you survive with -30 and worse. It must be a battle to keep the house from freezing.

Not that much of a battle actually. We've got pretty strict building standards and building inspection here so houses are properly insulated. Even the older ones from the 30's and 50's with saw-dust insulation are quite good if the sawdust hasn't packed/fallen on to the bottom of the walls.

It's +22C inside, -22 outside currently. Though I live in an apartment building with district heating so it's a bit different thing than jtbo's house for example because I just pay the rent and that keeps the apartment warm. But still it's funny that Finns are probably used to the highest indoor temps in Europe even though we got the coldest enviroinment..

Like jtbo said, most problems occur with the piping and sewer systems which will freeze easily if there are any defects in insulation.